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[[link removed]] Jim WallisAmong the many foreign policy experts, former diplomatic and military leaders,
intelligence officers, members of Congress and the Senate, editorial writers,
and columnists weighed in on Donald Trump’s killing of Iran’s top general, Qasem
Soleimani, most noted a complete lack of strategy. But what they miss is that
Trump has only ever had one strategy: doing whatever benefits him and his own
political and financial self-interests.

No, Trump’s act of war did not “absolutely make America safer” — the lie that
Secretary of State (now apparently Secretary of War) Mike Pompeo repeated on all
the Sunday shows. Because of Trump’s newest attack, the Middle East is clearly
more unsafe, further destabilized, increasingly volatile, and ever more
dangerous for American troops in the region, their families at home, American
troops, European populations, and the massive numbers of innocent Middle Eastern
civilians who are continually displaced by endless regional conflicts —
conflicts rarely mentioned in American news. The dangerous action put the whole
world on edge as we watched in fear of further downward spirals of violence and
its destructive consequences.

And, frighteningly, there’s nothing to suggest that the whole cycle won’t repeat
itself.

The Trump strategy was politically demonstrable — and morally monstrous — as a
deliberate, and initially successful, attempt to distract the media away from
his impeachment trial in the Senate, his vulnerability to increasing evidence of
his abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and as a new part of his
re-election campaign. And Trump’s white evangelical loyalists, many of whom
gathered in Miami on Friday to praise the president and launch “Evangelicals for
Trump,” were all too happy to tag in as surrogates and beat the drum of war in
obedience.

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