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Wag the dog
Remember the Maine! Remember the Tonkin Gulf incident? Weapons of mass destruction? Yellow cake? Evil Iraqis unplugging the incubators of Kuwaiti babies? The endangered American students in Grenada? The savage Huns killing Belgian babies?
All were ruses used to get U.S. into war. Ready, Fire, Aim! As in the film “Wag The Dog,” a phony war again saves a president from scandal.
Trump now proves my prediction that he would be just a figurehead for the deep state and his fellow plutocrats. He becomes more normal each day. Right after Mrs. Clinton urges the bombing of Syrian air bases, Trump reverses policy and carries it out.
Russia wonders if it was a Syrian bombing of a rebel weapons depot that unknowingly caused the nerve gas release. Their conjecture as to what happened with the toxic incident seems more plausible than the American assumption of Assad’s sadistic intent. Even some establishment pundits and politicians comment that with Syria winning the civil war and engaging in peace talks, it is puzzling as to why they would engineer their own diplomatic setback.
The Democrats are now distracted from their silly hysterics about a Trump-Putin axis. They hail Trump as a comrade warmonger.
Bully!
Morton Alexander
Spokane