Trump’s Sharpie strikes again

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In just over a year of his second term The Peace President has bombed fishing boats in the Caribbean, attacked and unseated the president of Venezuela and launched a war in Iran. Sprinkle in a few various and sundry military strikes in places like Syria, Somalia and Yemen and the winner of the prestigious FIFA Peace Prize is racking up quite the body count.

All this ordinance is being dropped in stark contrast to candidate Trump’s vocal and frequent campaign pledge to end America’s “Forever Wars”, those poorly planned conflicts-often in the Middle East-that the nation allows to drag on for decades without a coherent exit plan. Any competent person would recognize that bombing Iran might make that kind of pledge exceedingly difficult, but competent left the building a long time ago.

Of course, if you ask the administration they will tell you that the United States is not actually engaged in a war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. They will tell you the bomb that turned a girls schools and its inhabitants into a smoking crater was part of a coordinated military campaign, not a war. What difference that semantic argument makes to the scores of dead children is unclear.

If you paid even passing attention to Trump’s first term you knew Mr. Fire and Fury had an itchy trigger finger. Once he got a second term a protracted military action against a hostile foreign nation was inevitable, no matter how ill-advised. Even watching comrade Putin get his dick caught in his zipper over in Ukraine couldn’t dissuade this increasingly dithering old man-and the ghouls who orbit him-from starting a capital W war in Iran.