Trump: The Weakest President in 50 Years -- His Own People Just Proved It

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The Netanyahu quote about doing "what I have yearned to do for 40 years" is particularly devastating if you want to add another line -- Netanyahu celebrating while American families bury their dead.

It looks like three quarters of Americans are opposed to this war. I believe that a portion of the majority of men who support Trump are experiencing machismo surrogacy with his fake toughness. An effective media campaign getting the idea out that this was started because of Trump's profound weakness could impact even his strongest magat supporters.

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Scott Baker

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Of course Netanyahu wanted U.S. assistance in fighting the largest sponsor of state terrorism in the world, and through its proxies, the greatest existential threat to Israel: Iran. That's no secret. But other regional countries, especially those under the recently negotiated Abraham Accords and those who are trying to modernize, like Saudi Arabia (yes, they have a very long way to go), also saw Iran as their worst regional threat (one of the greatest mistakes or deliberate lies in foreign policy ever, was getting rid of Saddam Husein; Iraq was the biggest counterweight to Iran, in a region where nothing but power and ideology is respected).

See the NY Times in-depth article, written by an unusually large team of 6 reporters: How Trump Decided to Go to War. It emphasizes the Israeli push, but includes other motivations as well. Several things can be true at once: Iran was still pursuing nuclear weapons (the "obliteration" of its nuclear development program last August was never credible); Iran threatened the stability of weaker states like Lebanon through its major proxy: Hezbollah - which Israel is currently bombing, again. Iran is also the tip of the spear of an Islamic push to take over the world in a worldwide caliphate. Don't dismiss this; none of the 57 currently Muslim majority countries started out that way 1,400 years ago. They all used to have other religions but were conquered by the most imperialist political-religion system the world has ever known, and one which is spreading south into sub-Saharan Africa and north into Europe (again) even today, violently and relentlessly. Trump won't say that because he doesn't want to attack the religion of some of his favorite benefactors like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Dubai, and other Islamic countries that shower him with gifts, money, and let him build his expensive hotels and golf courses in their countries without the hassles Western democracies give him. Trump wishes he could be a king like those nations have too. And they don't want a revaunchist, anti-development, violent Jihadist-producing (even though Saudi Arabia produces more) country mucking things up for them. Privately, the leaders of most of them wish Islam would get out of the way, but they need to keep it going to deflect the populace from their own constant failures, due to...Islam. But stopping the leader of the Caliphate movement is, IMO, the greatest reason to go to war with Iran, even if not talked about openly. Seen through that lens, other America-destabilized countries like Libya, Iraq, are not failures, because they are off-the-board as far as regional threats are concerned. That's the cruel efficiency of American foreign policy, going back to Kissenger, if not earlier (BTW, Vietnam, from Kissenger's era and influence, is now a significant trading partner with the U.S., so maybe in a few decades, Iraq and Libya might be too?).

Marco Rubio also said that the U.S. couldn't wait until Iran built up so many weapons and ammunition that it would be impossible to stop them from building up to a nuclear weapon; Iran is weaker now than it has been in decades, thanks to its people in near constant - and incredibly brave - protest against its domestic policy, distracted by foreign adventurism. Iranians are mostly welcoming American intervention, both in Iran and in the diaspora. Out of 92 million people it can be hard to tell from the oversized crowds which way the country leans in the majority, but most of them believe they were misled by the Ayatollah Khomeini into believing he would create a democracy instead of the awful monarchy of the Shah - which he kind of did, but he didn't tell them it would be strongly under control of the Mullahs in a theocracy even more brutal than the Shah's Iran, which was pro-Western.

Hopefully, the regime will be toppled and some kind of pro-Western, or at least not violently anti-Western, human rights respecting, anti-misogynist, democratic regime will arise in its place. Trump's "victory" in Venezuela made him think regime change would be easy. It won't be. Not in Iran. It's too large and complex and its recent history is too much to overcome overnight. The IRGC has too many hands in its economy, and could end up in control of the country, even if there's another nominal Ayatollah appointed. But the status quo was unacceptable. Something had to be done, for the sake of Iran, for the sake of the world.

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It's hard to believe that you actually quoted the Iranian foreign minister as a good source. Spinning the coordination between the US and Israel as Israel forcing the US is another sign of misunderstanding the reality of facing down the dire threat Iran has posed. Trump has repeatedly shown reluctance to use military force against hostile adversaries, but that's definitely not been refusal to do so. I know that leftists, including many in the Jewish diaspora, have shown more concern for Palestinians and Islamists in general than for Israelis, but they do so mostly from the comfort of places not under constant threat of terrorist attacks.

Trump has seemed to be as gullible as most Westerners in imagining that negotiation with Islamists was possible (even in Israel, as the handover of Gaza clearly demonstrated), but he, along with those of us paying close attention and learning more history, finally realized that doesn't work against a religiously motivated death cult. It's the Iranian regime that has pushed this war, and further delay would only allow Iran to expand its arsenal and cause even more death and destruction.

Claims that Iran posed no threat to the US are based on wishful thinking that is enabled by misinformation and lack of understanding. That Western media repeatedly reports "information" from Hamas and the IRGC as valid, while treating information from Israeli and even American sources as suspect, is shameful. Our gullibility will doom us to further decline if we don't wake up to the Islamists too-successful manipulation. Iranians around the world are rejoicing at the prospect of the end of brutal Islamist oppression. Why is there such denial among Westerners, especially media?

Submitted on Tuesday, Mar 3, 2026 at 9:51:56 AM

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Reply to David Wieland:

Well David, at least you are open about your biases against Islam and its political subordinates. It's too bad that you seem so unfamiliar with the historical details that accompany these historical events, as if the Islamic reactions to western measures arise out of the blue, without provocation. I'm not a fan of Hamas, but I do recognize that Israel had literally walled off the population of Gaza from interactions with Israel's economy and society, along with Lebanon's, and the Palestinians were being suffocated through isolation by the Israeli state and the Israeli's direct control over Gaza's access to the outside world. And at least in Gaza, Israel should have expected some level of reprisal from Hamas, as the Palestinians were already wasting away, prior to Israel's vindictive 'family for an eye' response since October 7, 2024. From your opinions, I gather that you believe that US foreign policy should be subordinate to that of Israel's.

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Tom Fisher

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When your right you are right. Not only did it show how weak trump is it shows how manipulated and occupied our government is by Israel. The entire administrations goal was to take orders from Israel without thinking to warn us citizens abroad , without protecting our real allies in the region. There was no coordination to remove troops or embassy or citizens from us bases abroad. Israel not only was able to topple an adversary that would have acted in preventing Israel from expanding its border in Syria and Lebanon (which is Israel's true goal , just took path the off patch on the military uniform ) it also effectively made the USA lose their standing and respect in the area - the Saudi's, uae and Qataris donot need or respect ally that removes missile defense batteries from their own countries and moves them to protect Israel, while the us bases and ally infrastructure gets pummeled. Israel kills two birds with one stone , it has destroyed both the US and Iran. Israel will be unchecked in the Middle East , thus taking everything over including our former security role and our weapons and the USA will be effectively rejected from the region. Leaving Israel , a violent terrorist state to rule the Middle East and Europe (gas) and no amount of tongue bathing of Israel by Scott baker and David wieland could ever make this to be a good thing.

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