Americans Aren't Rallying to Trump

[DemocratSinceBirth]

So that was not exactly the Cuban missile crisis.

In apparent retaliation for the killing of Iran’s top terror commander, Iran fired short-range ballistic missiles in the direction of military bases inside Iraq. The missiles inflicted no casualties on U.S. or allied forces.

The truly horrible news seems instead to be an accident: the crash of a Ukrainian Airlines flight to Tehran, which killed all 176 people aboard. The largest group among them consisted of 63 Canadian nationals. The cause of the crash remains uncertain. As of early this morning, the Iranian authorities had recovered the aircraft’s black boxes, but said they did not intend to send them to the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing. If a poorly aimed rocket struck the plane, then Iran has truly escalated the crisis. Otherwise, a night that opened with bellicosity closed in the shared grief of accidental tragedy.

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Trump has never aspired to the job of president of all the United States. He does not understand the job. He cannot do the job. And now the job needs to be done.

Earlier in the Trump administration, it was said that the president was fortunate to have never encountered a crisis not of his own making. Over three years, however, he has contrived to make a great many crises: a trade war with China, a betrayal in Kurdistan, a diplomatic debacle on the Korean peninsula, the ongoing thralldom of Trump to Putin, and now the approach to war with Iran. National crises become no less dangerous for being the fault of the U.S. president rather than some foreign aggressor. Happily, the Iran crisis is paused, at least for the moment. None of these national self-harms will be resolved, however, until this sham president leaves office.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/americans-arent-rallying-trump/604612/

[Iliyah]

1. This illegal person in the WH has . . .

personality disorder.

[lapfog_1]

2. it will never be allowed to be fully investigated

but I believe the plane was shot down... probably accidentally by a nervous and trigger happy aircraft defense unit.

[CaptYossarian]

5. By now, Boeing has as many backlogged black boxes as Wisconsin has untested rape kits.

There must be warehouses the size of the Pentagon somewhere in remote Alaska for these.

[rockfordfile]

3. Americans get it why trump did it. It was to divert attention from impeachment

Trump is desperate. He's kind of in the burn the village down to hell what happens to the people.

[DanieRains]

4. Yep

Dog Wagging.

[BamaRefugee]

6. Teeny tiny little Fists of War!

[BootinUp]

7. If it was a rocket, Trump has the lion's share

Of blame imho.

[sandensea]

8. Cheeto tried to provoke a war, in hopes of guaranteeing his own re-election

Most people see that for what it is: Idi Amin-level despotism.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Did they trade favors?

In a good deal, everybody gets something

[meow2u3]

10. The only "Americans" rallying to Trump are the traitors to the country

The rest of us are onto his wag the dog scam.

[wnylib]

11. I live near Buffalo. Many Canadians and NYers

cross the border here daily for jobs, shopping, entertainment, etc. Buffalo media include news items from Ontario and even Ottowa.

They are reporting now on the Canadians who died in the crash. They include people from Toronto e.g. a teacher, a dentist, and a young couple of Iranian descent who just got married in Iran to celebrate with relatives. Many were Canadian students. Some were Iranian students at various Canadian universities. There was a family - parents and their children. Toronto and Niagara Falls, Ontario have a lot of citizens, residents, and visitors who are from ME countries like Iran.