Junior officer Pete Hegseth, now Secretary of Defense, because Donald Trump saw him on Fox News on the weekends, and thought he looked the part, is vowing that Iran is “not Iraq,” which is only true in that, Iran is going to make Iraq look like Grenada.
“No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars,” said Hegseth, in a Monday presser, in which you could tell, he would rather have been doing a set of full-body pushups.
“We fight to win, and we don’t waste time or lives,” Hegseth said, doing a great job of following the script from creative.
Seriously, this is WWE at its worst.
ICYMI
It sure sounds here that the Trump regime didn’t learn anything from George W. Bush and Iraq; recall, Donald Rumsfeld, Dubya’s Secretary of War, thought American soldiers would be “greeted as liberators,” and that Iraqi citizens “will throw flowers and sweets to our troops.”
There’s no reason not to think that a sizable number of Iranians are celebrating the deaths of Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei and other top regime leaders in the U.S-Israeli strikes on Saturday.
Problem being, the regime, though in tatters, is still in power, and since they’re the ones with the guns, the plaintive wails from Trump to the Iranian citizenry to rise up and seize power are doomed to falling flat, absent ground support from the, ahem, liberators.
Which is where we run into “nation-building quagmire,” as Hegseth put it – with “stupid rules of engagement” that would seem to include, not accidentally killing the people that we had designs on as being the next in charge.
Trump admitted that this was the case in an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl Sunday night:
“The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates,” Trump told Karl. “It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of, because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead.”
Wonderful.
Not even a day into this dumb war, and we’re already stepping on our own dicks.
Hegseth gave away the game plan going forward in his Monday presser – which is, there is no game plan going forward.
“America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history, B-2s, fighters, drones, missiles, and, of course, classified effects, all on our terms with maximum authorities,” Hegseth said.
They think this is a video game.
Look forward to another 20 years of this.
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