"Iran, he felt certain, would easily follow the perfect scenario of Venezuela, accede to naming a leader who would instantly do his bidding, and there would be no disruption of the oil markets—a strong game plan, stated Karoline Leavitt, his White House press secretary, who defends each of his changeable excuses with equal ferocity."
"There may be few if any facts underlying the delusions upon which Trump constructs his vapid explanations and evanescent strategies. The belief that coherent sense can be made out of Trump's shuffling words is a weakness of the rational mind that refuses to accept the impulses of the inveterate demagogue for what they are."
"His stream of sputtering remarks has, however, clearly established the ground that should be explored by congressional inquiries into the war's origins, planning and conduct. Trump is also at war with the English language. His war is not a war, he insists, but a short-term excursion, a semantic dodge to skirt congressional and international accountability."
Trump's approach to Iran was based on flawed assumptions that the country would easily capitulate like Venezuela, with minimal market disruption. His strategy collapsed when confronted with reality in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump compounds confusion through improvised fabrications and contradictory explanations, defended by his press secretary despite lacking coherent logic. His erratic rhetoric and semantic dodges—redefining military action as a temporary excursion rather than war—demonstrate incompetence and evasion of accountability. His contradictory statements and manipulation of language reveal a pattern of incoherence that extends beyond policy into fundamental communication, warranting congressional investigation into the conflict's origins and conduct.
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