John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY TED GALEN CARPENTER IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Guess Who Doesn’t Want War with Iran? Trump Supporters
“Also known as: normal white people”
I am not sure that Trump wants war with Iran, but the truth is that it almost does not matter what he wants.
The people to whom he is beholden, greatly beholden, very much do want war with Iran. They are people he turned to for support and truckloads of campaign funds when he was at his lowest ebb over the possibility of being driven from office.
They gave him what he wanted, but, of course, at a price. Giving away what is not even legal for him to give away – Jerusalem and the Golan - plus all the unjustified, intense public hostility towards Iran are part of that price.
And do we have any evidence, ever, of Trump’s weak character overriding those who have some hold over him? None. He is a remarkable psychological case study in pretending to be just what he is not, a tough, independent-minded man. He’s a pushover with a rude, loud mouth and many transparent prejudices.
He is remarkably ineffectual, but keeps making loud noises about things being otherwise.
A silly man, in addition to all his other shortcomings.
See:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/john-chuckman-comment-why-trump-doesnt-rein-in-bolton-dismal-bolton-pompeo-and-abrams-are-part-of-the-price-trump-paid-for-political-support-against-threats-he-felt-and-getting-a-big-pile-of-ca/
Writer Ted Galen Carpenter borders on the ridiculous, again and again, but especially here.
You'd almost think he knows nothing about his own country, the United States.
But then, he has worked for years for one of those privately-subsidized American propaganda mills nicely styling itself as a “think-tank.”
America’s belly-over-the-belt types, the inhabitants of America's vast gulag of trailer parks, and the main patrons of Wal-Mart, perhaps less than anyone question what they hear on television.
And what do they hear there, 24-hours a day?
Iran bad, America good, America need fix Iran.
Please.
