The Choices: Either Is Disaster

donnie announced that he was going to blow up Iran at 20H00 Eastern yesterday.

If he really had done that, there would have been some good news: two Ash Wednesdays in the same calendar year.

At the time I noted the bad news: if he doesn't, I said, donnie will be on the 'net all night raving and ranting, farting and moaning, and what little is left of America's prestige and credibility will be drowned out in those hours by the world-wide barrage of snickers, guffaws and belly laughs.

And the plaques on all the golden statues will have to be changed from "donnie the decimator" to "donnie the damn fool wanna be".

And either way, the moment he said that he's going to blow up Iran, he crossed into war‑crime territory.

And either way, the United States is a criminal, or a buffoon, or both.

Making the announcement with the Easter Bunny did a I nice job of pointing to which.

But the really interesting thing is going to be, I further said, given that war crimes thing, would the military heed the recent video released by a group of six Democratic lawmakers with military and national‑security backgrounds in which those lawmakers emphasized the long‑established principle of military law: troops can and must refuse unlawful orders?

And would Congress execute its duty?

Since this post was posted pre-taco, but is being retained and updated for continued use, we know the answer: the republican Congress did nothing, not a bang, not even a whimper.

Since no intervention, by Congress, was taken, we know the truth.

America died just short of 250.

I was guessing that that truth would prevail. 

And, sure enough, it did.

Probably a good thing because the ten point deal (looks amazingly like an ultimatum) that donnie has negotiated pretty well disqualifies us from any adjacency to world leadership.

The now interesting major issue of whatever the future becomes is do we just close up shop, and fade into being a fourth rate totalitary with a dying nut in charge or do we arrest, indict, prosecute, convict and punish the faction that ended us so short of our birthday?

And start over on the long and tortuous track to greatness?

Probably not.

Fourth rateness is more the style of the 77.3 million who got us into this mess.