A Phony War
18th May 2019
If you consume the mainstream media, you might be under the impression that President Trump is about to take the U.S. into war with Iran. Even if you only watch Fox News, you might believe that John Bolton is pushing Trump to go to war. Tucker Carlson says that Bolton wants a war with Iran.
This is fake news. There’s no evidence that Bolton desires a war with Iran and none that, even if this were what Bolton wants, Trump would be willing to start such a war.
Even Fox News is merely the best of a bad lot. Most of the talking heads in Washington are pretending that they can read the minds of Trump and his administration’s officials in order to report what they ‘want’ and ‘desire’ and ‘secretly yearn for’, and it’s all bullshit. There is NO official in Trump’s administration that can ‘make’ him do anything; if nothing else, the last two years have demonstrated that conclusively. That being true, what inferior officials ‘want’ is of no consequence, even if (which I doubt) the Chattering Class had some way of discerning that beyond their own fantasies.