Members of Trump’s own party have lined up to condemn the deal, which pledges to help fund Iran and scrap sanctions
Republicans have turned on Donald Trump over his plan to end the war with Iran, accusing him of making the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades”.
The U.S. released the 14-point interim agreement on Wednesday as Trump signed the documents in Versailles, France. The terms included stopping the conflict and reopening the vital shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz, but also financing Iran’s recovery with a $300bn fund and scrapping sanctions.
“Reagan is rolling over in his grave,” said Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy on Wednesday, referring to the former president Trump admires.
Point of order: all of your contrasting examples were competent.
Competent? Who the fuck cares if they’re competent at betraying the public, starting pointless wars, terrorizing the globe, and slaughtering innocents?
Plenty of people will happily argue that Operation Desert Storm was a shitshow. Just ask all the veterans with “Gulf War Syndrome”. Or the millions of starving Iraqis that incentivized the “Oil for Food” program (itself an enormous swindle). Similarly, if you crack open Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States”, he’s got some hard truths to drop about the US intervention in Kosovo and Serbia. For that matter, it’s worth interrogating why Yugoslavia disintegrated so quickly to begin with (TL;DR; perestroika).
And then you’ve got Korea, which I would argue is the gold standard for “Failed US Wars” even relative to the current Iran cockup. MacArthur runs laps around Pete Hegseth when it comes to disastrous military adventurism.
Even the Bush Afghan/Iraq Wars are bigger blunders by sheer volume. Hard to compete with a 23 year long calamity inside a mere four months. We did not - blessedly - turn Iran into a narco-state that sent thousands of tons of cheap heroin into the veins of western allied nations for decades on end. We do not appear to have created a new ISIS by engaging in de-IRGC-ization. We killed tens of thousands of people rather than millions of people.
Coulda been way worse.
Nobody is worse at military operations than Pete Hegseth, nobody.
As for the rest, too tired to argue.
I would be hard pressed to name a military command more disastrous than MacArthur’s decision to invade China.
While I agree with you in theory, since it indeed was utterly disastrous, he at least has some sort of coherent (using that phrase mildly here).
Hegseth seems to just like to kill people with impunity, remotely.
Do you really think he could put together a real campaign against a country ready and willing to fight?