“General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake,. . . there are studies underway to fluoridate … ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream.”
Now that Trump is actually bombing someone, everyone in Washington loves him. And they don’t mind that he is paraphrasing Dr Strangelove. I watched on MSNBC last night and it was the first time in a couple years, at least, that there was no feeling of discontinuity when they cut away to crazy Trump.
“He has to do it, everybody’s watching!” emoted Jennifer Rubin, while the other panelists chanted “Don’t Stop, Don’t Stop!”
So what do you think? Will Trump go for multiple orgasms? Does he have the precious bodily fluids for it?
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What do I think, you ask? I think that all of the commentators, particularly the more progressive foreign-policy commentators who should know better like Farid Zakaria, should be ashamed of themselves for gushing uncritically over this likely cynical decision by this man who is suddenly believed. And why? Because he finally uses a military weapon? Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.
By the way, are not the lives of all of the precious men, women, and children of Syria worth more than a couple of dents in some asphalt? Were this Obama who had made such a pinprick tomahawk strike, one would hear the conservative and neocon commentators ridiculing him right now.