World War III and golden cell phones
Americans have become so accustomed to chaos that even the possibility of World War III barely warrants a shrug these days. Israel and Iran are busy doing Israel and Iran things, and the body count is rising. Donald Trump promised no US involvement in foreign wars, but the Middle East tête-à-tête seems to have gotten his draft-dodging blood up. Yesterday he tweeted out that the city of Tehran, 10 million people, should "immediately evacuate". He did not add any suggestions as where to its 10 million residents should go. Today he strongly suggested he could kill Iran’s Supreme Leader because “we know exactly where” he is. This sort of unhinged behavior used to be considered un-Presidential at least, or the ravings of a madman at worst. Now? Meh.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to have suckered and goaded Trump into all of this, which is not that hard to do to an idiot.
If one is expecting cooler heads to prevail, let me remind you that this is the Middle East, a place where cooler heads go to die. It is a place warped by religion and intolerance, and filled with perpetually dyspeptic, grifting con-men. No wonder Trump is fascinated by the place. It’s like Mar-a-Lago on steroids.
