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Peace, Blasphemy, and Prophecy
Jim Wallis

Among 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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