President Trump’s 19 minute speech tonight was an extraordinary collection of blatant lies and fantastic delusions. He repeatedly claimed over and over that Iran was decimated. So why isn’t the war over? Why does it have to continue for another month?
Trump addressed no issue. He did not acknowledge that it is US and Israel’s radar sites that have been decimated along with American bases. He did not acknowledge that Israeli-America has run out of interceptor missiles, and that Poland, a NATO ally, has refused Trump’s pressure to release the US missiles systems in Poland to Israel.
The facts on the ground are that Israel and US bases on the Persian Gulf are defenseless and cannot stop incoming Iranian missiles that strike at will.
Does Trump really think 19 minutes of hot air can hide the tremendous defeat that Trump has suffered from starting a war that his own hand-picked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs advised him against as the US lacked sufficient munitions to continue the war more than a few weeks?
Many hoped that tonight Trump would declare victory and with the war declared won pull out and go home. Apparently, the powerful Israel Lobby was able to prevent Trump from extricating himself from the trap in which he foolishly placed himself.
Tonight Trump presented the world with an a delusional American president divorced from reality. Will anyone notice–certainly C-Span’s commentator Matthew Kroenig did not–or do they, like Trump, prefer delusion to reality?
