COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MAYA OPPENHEIM IN THE
INDEPENDENT
Donald Trump's
'downward mental health spiral' could lead US to war, clinical psychologist
says
Health professional
argues there is a possibility President Trump's mental health could leave
America vulnerable to terror attacks or war
This is just dumb.
As were the previous articles done on this topic or related
to it.
First, the President alone cannot make war.
Second, while I regard Trump as unpleasant and uninformed
and impulsive, he is no madder, and maybe even less, than a number of America's
leading lights.
Hillary Clinton has to be certifiably insane. John McCain is
a weird psychopath. So is Joe Lieberman. Newt Gingrich is an unprincipled fool.
Nancy Pelosi is genuinely bizarre and likely senile. And smiling Obama led the
country in killing at least half a million people and causing huge upsets in
populations and refugees.
It strikes me as absolutely uninformed, and indeed
dangerous, to ignore the rest of America's political elites and write of Trump
as though he were uniquely twisted.
That group of leaders plus others in the hierarchy have just
taken the US through 15 years of mass killing in the Middle East with at least
2 million victims.
As well, it has supported such horrors as Guantanamo, the
torture at Abu Ghraib prison, and launch of an industrial-scale extralegal
killing operation, one that makes people disappear in a number of countries
without any judicial or legal proceedings.
