Tomorrow Never Knows
"Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstance.” – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The coward in the White House is having to deal with the consequences of circumstances he started in Iran. On one hand, he wants to submit in a total surrender, so long as other countries in the Middle East sign the business deal that Israel's diplomat named Jared made with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Although this is unlikely to satisfy Netanyahu, this could secure a record-setting second FIFA Peace Prize.
At the same time, a cornered coward is potentially dangerous. This is true, for example, if he is armed. A coward with a gun who knows he is trapped should not be trusted. If that coward is in the White House, he is definitely not to be trusted. You might be thinking, “Yeah, but that's just your opinion,” so let's take a moment or two to consider why I think the coward in the White House is dangerous at this point in time.
In his 1973 classic “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness,” Erich Fromm discusses the distinction between “instinct” and “character” in human beings. I'd like to think that decent people instinctively are repulsed by things like the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four little girls. Or the bombing of a little girls school in Iran in more recent times.
Yet there are some among us of such low character that they excuse this, and others who delight in it. In Fromm's important book, he shows how when a person of sociopathic nature obtains political power, his gravity draws in anti-social personality disordered people in close. They believe they have license to engage in their most violent fantasies. This leads to the collapse of their nation-state in time. We are witnessing this today in the United States.
Recent polls document that the majority of adults in our country blame the president for starting a war that has damaged the economy. Likewise, many other world citizens blame him, and also the United States. They know that this sociopath who is damaging the global economy has been elected twice, and that neither of the other two branches of the federal government have stopped his madness. Both Israel and the USA are unpopular to an extent that the balance between nations is changing to adjust to the new reality.
Since his most recent tail-between-his-legs discussion about submitting to Iran, at least four maga Senators have publicly said this would be terrible. The war would be a loss for the home team. Now, although the coward is pissed at Netanyahu for promising that this would be a three day war – seven at very most – he knows that Netanyahu has significant influence over the DC maga representatives and senators. That is a stick the old boy feels.
Now, the coward knows that if the violence in Iran increases, it will result in even more serious devastation to the American and world economy. Leaders of numerous nations have advocated that the coward and Israel end the war. That does not translate to liking the Iranian government. Indeed, one can correctly say that this has made Iran stronger in the global neighborhood.
Reportedly, the coward told Netanyahu that he needs to stop his attack on Lebanon so that he, as president, can detach from the war in Iran and declare victory. Though Netanyahu is said to have agreed, the violence continues. The coward knows that Netanyahu hopes to get Iran to react in support of Lebanon, as an excuse to continue the Iranian war.
Today there are reports that a deal has been reached between the US and Iran, although the coward has yet to sign it. This after a US “defensive” strike on Bandar Abbas, and an Iranian strike on a US base in Kuwait last night. Will the coward submissively surrender to circumstance? Will he listen to the message he got on his recent visit to China to stop the war he and Netanyahu started? Does he grasp the significance of Hezbollah's use of drones from Russia to target Israeli troops in Lebanon? Is there even the slightest indication that he can exert any control over Netanyahu?
One last thing. People in the administration, along with magas in Congress, are urging the coward-in-chief to begin campaigning on domestic issues over the summer months to prepare for the mid-terms. We saw a bit of that in yesterday's meeting. His attempted deal with himself to get a billion or two to fund the militias that were involved in the January 6 insurrection seems to have stalled, making the coward even more cowardly when it comes to what happens after the mid-term's termination of his unquestioned power.
In other words, despite his feeble attempts to say the economy is the best it has ever been, he is up against the wall. Verbal attacks on Ilhan Omar and others he considers defenseless won't carry the day. I think we can anticipate a Stephan Miller inspired, all-out attack on America. Just my opinion.
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