Berlatsky: The irrational strongman we've been warned about is here

[Nevilledog]

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran-strikes-rationale

In the run up to the Iraq War, President George W. Bush characterized Saddam Hussein as a “madman” who would lash out indiscriminately at the US, Israel, and other nations if not stopped.

Negotiations were impossible, Bush argued, because Hussein was driven by uncontainable animus and bloodlust.

“His word is no good,” Bush concluded, “and he’s a brute.”

Over the years the United States government and various analysts have labeled a range of designated enemies — Iraq, North Korea, Iran — as not just evil, but irrational, unpredictable, and therefore beyond the reach of diplomacy. As with Bush and Hussein, these characterizations often were as much excuse and rationalization for violence as analysis.

But we have at last found a global villain who matches the bugbear — an ill-informed violent despot who seems to enjoy carnage for its own sake, and who has the power and the will to project terror and violence anywhere on earth for any reason or for none.

That global villain is, of course, President Donald Trump.

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[AZJonnie]

1. Spot on!

[msongs]

2. just about every thing 47 says about iran applies to him as well nt