All of his assumptions proven wrong, Donald Trump is Iran’s newest hostage
Idea
“It looked like a good thing, but wait until I tell you.”
This is the beginning of the classic O. Henry short story Red Chief’s Ransom.
This story, written in 1907, is the ultimate parable about the dangers of capturing and controlling a demon so insidious, maniacal, and terrifying that his captors are captured.
The story is about two small-time crooks who think they can make easy money by kidnapping a 10-year-old boy, the son of a wealthy landowner, in a quiet town in Alabama.
They take it too lightly. When they go to kidnap the red-haired, freckle-faced boy, the boy throws a stone at a kitten and a brick at one of his kidnappers.
“Red Chief, the terror of the plains,” as the boy calls himself, leads his captors in misery. She enjoys tormenting men and doesn’t want to go home. In the end, they have to give up on the $2000 ransom demand and pay the boy’s father $250 to take the evil child from their hands and run for the hills.
President Donald Trump backed Bibi Netanyahu’s Panglossian claim to criticize Iran. It seemed like a good thing: but wait until I tell you.
After nearly two months of dealing with the evil Iranian leadership and their allies, Trump seems desperate to run for the hills. It repeatedly says it has defeated the mullahs and “destroyed” their military power, but Iran refuses to be subjugated.
Trump says it’s a new regime that’s easier to deal with, but it’s actually the same regime, only worse; It is ruled by rigid, fanatic generals. Iran has not handed over its enriched uranium and negotiations continue in contact. The Strait of Hormuz, which Trump insists is open, is closed. Trump blocks Iran blockade.
“Iran has proven far more resilient and resourceful than it was prepared for,” Richard Haass, foreign policy advisor to President George W. Bush, wrote in the “Home & Away” newsletter. “Almost all of management’s assumptions have been proven wrong.”
Besides Iran’s weakening of its conventional military capabilities, “almost all metrics show that the situation for the United States, the region and the world is worse,” Haass said.
Iranians are persecuting Trump; even as they take down the master troller, they mercilessly mock the President as a “loser” and a puppet of Bibi who wants to distract him from the Epstein files.
A viral Iranian rap addressing Trump calls the conflict “a trap you can’t see. Welcome to the graveyard of your arrogance.”
Admitting that Iran has won the meme war Daily Show Reporter Ronny Chieng said of Trump: “What’s the point of electing a cyberbully who can’t do cyberbullying?”
Now that Iran has increased its power in the strait, Trump needs to negotiate with Iran to get things back to where they were before.
It sits alongside a backward, treacherous theocracy, tucked away in a strange, almost medieval corner of the planet. However, ships carrying more than 20 percent of the world’s oil still have to pass through the narrow passage to reach the Arabian Sea.
Overconfident after his adventurism in Venezuela, Trump is drifting into distraction.
The two American airmen were shaken when they were shot, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey reported. Wall StreetJournalHe said he “shouted at his assistants for hours.” Last month, Trump spoke of the danger of becoming another Jimmy Carter, spiraling among hostages and a botched rescue operation that resulted in the loss of eight helicopters.
One of my first big stories as a reporter was covering these hostage families for a year and then going to West Point in 1981 to see the hostages return home. So I had a front row seat to the Iranians’ jujitsu tactics; I used the 52 Americans in our embassy to gain influence over Carter’s presidency, his reputation, and his re-election.
Trump tried to scare Iranians with a profane post on Easter and a brutal threat to destroy their civilization. But Iran is not Afghanistan or Iraq. Iranian mullahs and generals are the terror of the Bosphorus.
Trump has abandoned the only good Middle East policy he has: avoiding the mirage of quick victories while once again being dragged into what he disdainfully called “blood and sand” in his first term.
When he was running for office in 2016, Trump called the invasion of Iraq a “big, big mistake” that destabilized the Middle East and cost a lot in money and lives.
But seduced by the disgusting Bibi, he is drawn into the blood and sand. Unlike W., who had the decency to fabricate a war case, Trump let Bibi drag him into it, brushing off Congress, our allies, and many angry MAGA acolytes.
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan explain in their upcoming book: Regime Change: Inside Donald Trump’s Imperial PresidencyThe president said he ignored General Dan Caine’s warnings that a war with Iran would deplete our weapons stockpile and endanger traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
Like New York Times The United States has burned down half of the long-range stealth cruise missiles it is building for the war with China — about 1,100, it was reported Thursday.
The president, who has the attention span of a mosquito, posted on Truth Social: “I have all the time in the world but Iran has none – The clock is ticking!” But he is the one who loses control of the timeline and himself.
Trump said he used “real hyperbole” as a developer. But now he uses exaggerated wishful thinking in his wild posts on Truth Social, his calls with reporters, and his interviews. His staff is resigned to the midterm election disaster caused by high gas prices and a lack of focus on the economy.
And he continues to return to the huge ballroom. According to a Washington Post “Trump called the ballroom on about a third of the days this year,” the analysis found. It’s a welcome mental escape, as he now ties himself in a Gordian knot with Iran.
This article was first published on: New York Times.
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