When Donald Trump launched the Iran war in February, he risked alienating the non-interventionist base he had spent a decade cultivating.
As he now tries to extract himself from the highly unpopular war, it looks increasingly like he might inflame the other side of his base — the foreign policy hawks with whom he suddenly found himself in-league.
While there are few hard details of what’s actually in the memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with Iran, those hawks are openly worrying that Trump gave away too much in the name of trying to end the war. They’ve made no secret that they fear Trump signing on to a nuclear agreement like the one struck by the Obama administration in 2015, which they (and Trump himself) derided as too weak for more than a decade.
How could it be described as anything other than caving? According to the leaked preliminary details, all he did was just secured Obama’s deal, but worse since at least Obama carved out provisions to ensure that inspections were being done to verify that Iran was not building a nuclear program. What we are getting is a pinky promise, leaving the door open to future bombings when the schizo USA decides to play world police again.
I’m also not convinced Charlie Brown has finally kicked the football here. Deal isn’t final until the ink is dry, and Pakistan will likely call out Israel for continuing to bomb Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
TACO
He 100% caved, and it’s 100% the best decision he’s ever made.
Well, it’s a fire he started so, uh, well, I guess?
This is real nine-dimensional chess type of stuff. The Shart of the Deal.
I’m not really complimenting him, the bar is just somewhere in earth’s mantle at this point.
People need to keep in mind that Johnson, Nixon, Bush, and Obama all chose escalation in the face of loose/loose situation. A ground war in Iran would have been a catastrophe and TACO is a huge W for the thousands and thousands of people who don’t have to die now.
Jackass doesn’t get to start a fire and then get credit for NOT throwing kerosene on it.
Trump: Hey guys, I want to make an announcement about this treaty on my birthday. What do I need to do to make that happen…
Irgc: $300 billion dollars
Trump: It’s not my money, sure.
Oh no, ::snicker:: I hope they don’t turn on each other
hawks are openly worrying that Trump gave away too much in the name of trying to end the war
He’s going to have to surrender one way or another.
Just remember that DonOLD is not only a criminal, but also a surrender monkey now. :)
This was on the better end of outcomes after a certain point (as long as Israel can stop running interference)…
Trump wasn’t going to get to where the Obama deal was, so I knew he’d have to give concessions but claiming whatever he does as a win. Even if Iran were to annex part of Florida as part of the deal, he would say it’s a win. Lying is easy as breathing for Trump, but the hardest thing is ever admitting wrongdoing.
He sure did, can’t figure out why so many people are afraid of him. Only thing that makes sense is he’s a puppet that can’t quite be controlled and goes off on his own sometimes, so the GOP just uses him to take the blame. Especially since he sleeps through most of the meetings anyway
Lindsey must have the worst case of blue balls right now.
