Which City Will Donald Trump Bomb First: Tehran—or Minneapolis? |
I can’t be the only one who noted the hideous irony of the president who is now overseeing the killing of American citizens simultaneously threatening to bomb (or do something to) Iran if that nation starts … killing its own citizens. “If they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved,” he said. “We’ll be hitting them very hard where it hurts.”
The protests in Iran are heartening to see, although we’ve all gotten our hopes up before about such surges in Tehran and other cities, only to see the inspiring unrest quelled and the regime reassert its control. Perhaps this time, things will be different. Life in Iran sounds absolutely miserable—70 percent food inflation, a worthless currency, and a government that’s bankrupt (I mean financially, but morally too, obviously), all on top of the usual ideological horribleness. And it seems that Sunday night, hundreds of protesters were killed.
I would love to see the United States of America live up to its stated values and use its influence—not its military might, but its influence—to help topple the foul Islamic Republic and create conditions where the Iranian people can build a democracy (as opposed to trying to build it for them).
But the United States of Trump is not remotely capable of this. For starters, Trump lacks the interest. He doesn’t care what happens to the Iranian people. He cares about the oil, and he cares about whether what unfolds there might reflect........