Paul Seems To Think That “Greatness” Is Synonymous With “Unthinking Cruelty” — For Cruelty’s Sake. Not So.

Mirengoff this afternoon tells us we must “see it through” in Iran — even though he admits… his regime change (the objective he supported, in wild-eyed fashion, just two months ago) is no longer even remotely likely.

What Paul won’t admit is that Bibi conned or bullied the malign dotard Trump into this war of choice. And Paul well-knows, if Trump doesn’t now obliterate all of Iran’s ability to make war… it could be the end of Israel. That is true.

I might counter his non-stated underlying major premise by observing that Bibi may have sealed Israel’s fate — either way. Even after the entire nation of Iran is rubble, and all its uninformed soldiers have abandoned their posts, and left their rifles empty in the sand… there are certainly right now sleeper cells in Israel, in Tel Aviv — and perhaps even very near Mar-a-Lago.

Bibi and Trump have fallen into a quagmire they do not understand.

Paul writes that we are less than “great“ if we don’t keep dropping $6 billion in bombs a day, on Iran:

…[T]here should be no disagreement that if the U.S. ceases military activity in Iran because the conflict has caused high gas prices, that will be strong evidence that America is not great. Great nations do not give up on their military objectives because pursuing them is leading temporarily to higher prices….

Paul’s purported “analysis” is… transparently silly. Rather than grappling with the legitimacy or lack of it, of the whole operation, he simply assumes Trump was right — or more precisely, that Bibi was.

If the goal was illegitimate (and it was!), then deciding that now over 20 dead US soldiers is 20 too many — or deciding (correctly) that Trump was Bibi’s clown here… either or both, or higher gas prices… would be, and is plenty of reason to just walk away.

The Strait will reopen; gas prices will fall… and Bibi may well be cooked, either way.

Paul assumes that this was one of the conflicts John F. Kennedy would have paid “any price” to win, in 1961.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

This was a grave mistake. One that will define Trumpism, forever in history — as the Know Nuthin’s… rebirthed.

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