I could spend a lot of this column musing about the absolute whiplash gripping the American and global commentariat surrounding the announcement of a ceasefire in the Iran War Tuesday evening. Instead, I’m going to let Ace of Spades knock that out for us, because his treatment of the instant pivot from Trump The Barbarian Civilization Killer to Trump The Cowardly P*ssy Who Caved To Iran was as good as I’ve seen:
Remember, the “smart people” are also the “thoughtful” and “responsible” people. They have all the answers, they’ll tell you. They definitely do not simply spam out random disingenuous claims completely incompatible with each other as the day’s news cycle might require.
David Strom wrote about this. I’ve seen it all over myself.
The “nuke” thing was absurd. Trump threatened to use a top-secret conventional weapon the world had never seen before. What was it? I dunno. Maybe some kind of non-nuclear EMP to take out the power plants without harming the child human shields Iran stuffed them with? At no point did he threaten or imply a threat to use a nuke.
Now I might think “Trump is making up some secret uber-weapon,” but then again, Delta Force does seem to have unleashed absolute top-secret Sci-Fi weaponry in the Venezuela Snatch-and-Stash operation.
But he never hinted at a nuke.
But the “reasonable,” “responsible,” “thoughtful” people — you know, the really “smart” people you can rely upon for their intelligence and probity and smooth emotional restraint — all just went on twitter and did what they usually do, shriek lies that no one including themselves believes...
But the thing was, no sooner was the ceasefire announced but waves of rockets descended on Israel — and Israel was pounding the living hell out of Lebanon.
That didn’t look much like a ceasefire.
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