Downfall: Donald Trump and the Power of Darkness

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“Tirez le rideau la farce est jouée.” — Francois Rabelais (“Drop the curtain; the farce is over”)

Trump Advisers Urge Him to Find Iran Exit Ramp, Fearing Political Backlash. The president told reporters that he thought the war in Iran would be over “very soon.”

—Wall Street Journal headline, March 9

In his 1995 book Jihad vs. McWorld Benjamin R. Barber posited the clash of American huckster capitalism’s global markets, techno-utopianism, venal consumerism and soulless entertainment media with Islamic forces of tradition and family.

It was supposed in the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars that U.S. technological supremacy would initiate regime change and win hearts and minds first by massive bombing and by importing the values of usurious western banking and conspicuous consumption. In all three cases Third World ideologues and theocrats who held their beliefs superior to the allurement of mammon, drove the US military out of their lands.

Trump, the billionaire’s club president in hock to Miriam Adelson for her $100 million donation to his campaign, and the demands of the butcher of Gaza, Bibi Netanyahu, has marched the American military into an invasion of the Islamic Republic of Iran for reasons that shift as often as the blowing sands of the Middle East.

With each changing alibi for his bombing of Iran, a little bit of Trump’s persona and credibility crumble. He has spent billions of taxpayer dollars fighting Israel’s war with the Shiite theocracy at a time when inflation and affordability are major issues domestically. Following meshugganah Netanyahu is a road to nowhere and Trump is traveling it to its terminus.

He has been fed the disinformation that the Iranian people were keen to overthrow Shiite theocracy and welcome the Israeli terrorists bombing their infrastructure and cultural treasures and assassinating their people. “Welcome Mossad!” was the banner Mr. Trump expected to see in the streets of Tehran. This ignoramus thought that by following cues from big brains like Netanyahu, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro he couldn’t go wrong.

He has misread Americans, mistaking them for the madmen of the Protestant evangelical churches for whom Zionism is an idol and the spilling of Arab and Persian blood a prerequisite for the Second Coming.

As gas and food prices rise and the Iranian street has not yet rolled out the much anticipated red carpet for the Israeli war criminals who massacred Gaza, Trump is getting ready to depart Iran and confirm Mao Tse Tung’s description of the U.S. as a “paper tiger.” Trump appears daily ever more Netanyahu’s clown and prize fool.

Having betrayed his campaign promises to avoid war and regime change, Trump is ready to leave the job of massacring Iranians to the Israelis. His other Hobson’s choice is to commit US troops to a ground war in Iran with a million heavily armed Shiite militants. Trump projects an Il Duce persona though he is clearly adrift and clueless.

He caricatures Iran with a cartoon depiction of the Shiite nation’s alleged ambition to rule the Middle East. Yet, it is Israel under Netanyahu which has emerged as the power that aspires to regional domination through unlimited state terrorism: unleashing unprecedented levels of violence in Gaza; ethnically cleansing the West Bank and bombing the populations of Yemen, Lebanon and Iran in acts of murderous collective punishment.