Of course the decision, if you can call it that, to bomb Iran was going to turn out to be based on levels of stupidity that would be hard to comprehend. It was predictable.
We already knew as it was happening that Tulsi Gabbard had testified before Congress the intelligence community didn't support findings of imminent nuclear weapons in Iran.
Rolling Stone reported almost immediately that Pentagon sources said wasn't based any real threat, but only, as they say these days, "vibes."
Then today the New York Times had this, posted by Greg Sargent, formerly a highly regarded columnist at the Washington Post:
NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it.
Later in the day, Rolling Stone's Asawin Suebsaeng posted this:
I want to be very clear that you should be horrified at the level of influence Fox News has during trump presidencies on warmaking decisions. The network took it upon itself to help trump pick targets in the first term, when Fox was pushing him to bomb Syria.
And then there was this screen snapshot from Xitter that was shared:
Anyway, I've had this random playing card sitting in the cup-holder of my car for several weeks and today when I was looking at it it reminded me of someone, so I thought I would share that thought with you:
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