Donald Trump’s recent tweet gloating about the “official end” of Iran if they confront the U.S. empire should be treated as a watershed event for U.S. history. Trump responded to the report of an indiscriminate rocket landing in the middle of the Iraq Green Zone. Trump immediately blamed Iran for this provocation and tweeted once again about the possible wholesale destruction of a sovereign nation. That the nuclear threat was imbedded in this tweet is clear. This is a historically noteworthy event as Trump’s tweet should end with finality the fiction and mythology that the United States is a just, moral and peace-abiding nation that embraces the structures and tenets of international law.
Is it any surprise that in every global poll regarding future survival the United States is overwhelmingly regarded as the greatest threat to global peace and survival? Trump is also embracing a level of hypocrisy that warrants global condemnation. How can we threaten what could easily segue into World War 3 with Iran and possible apocalypse while standing shoulder to shoulder with Saudi Arabia as they orchestrate the century’s greatest human-rights tragedy against Yemen, a nation at the precipice of famine and starvation. We are the co-authors of the Yemen tragedy. Trump without hesitation vetoed a resolution that would have ended our active role in the systematic annihilation of Yemen and within weeks of this he threatens Iran with extinction.
It is for these reasons that we the people cannot take the moral high ground in any international dispute. We are not a republic that honors and reviews international law. We are a rogue state, an empire married to militarism where unilateral military action and war making has become the accepted and applauded norm.
Jim Sawyer
Edmonds
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