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Let’s Stop Trying To Make Trump Wrong Even When He’s Right
Not attacking Iran was the sane move to make at this point in time, yet the President’s getting it from all sides
His was a proper decision based on history. Yet right wingers are whining Trump’s not being the tough guy he promised he’d be. And from the left: endless dissections of the looney-tunes way in which the President claims he landed on that last minute decision; intended to make Trump look like a bumbling fool.
And yeah, Trump’s largely got only himself to blame for that: it was he who got the U.S. to this point in the first place. Most notably, by ripping up the Obama-era Iran deal, prematurely bragging on achieving regime change, and surrounding himself with war-mongering lunatics both in the White House, as well as those who speak to him through Fox News. And Trump was the one who ridiculed President Obama when he showed restraint in a similar situation. Trump at the time saying he’d have “blown Iran out of the water.”
Still, Trump’s decision, however it was reached, is laudable. And he’s right: killing a bunch of people would’ve been disproportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone.
In order to reach that decision, Trump had to shout down a lot of voices in his head: from…
