A Whispering Whiplash!
POTUS is yet to learn in his second term that statecraft is not a business transaction. By Malini Shankar Digital Discourse Foundation There is fiendish delight in seeing a far right politician climb down on his far-fetched xenophobic war mongering rhetoric. US President Donald Trump fell prey to his own political fantasies of plundering Iranian oil reserves by proclaiming that Iran was ready to fire nukes at US interests and war was inevitable. Turns out that Iran has plenty of ammunition but does not have enough fuel to power them to land anywhere across the Atlantic. Obviously no lessons have been learnt from history. His Republican predecessor President George Bush II nd proclaimed Iraq was under threat under Saddam Hussain because he was developing Weapons of Mass Destruction and triggered the 2 nd Gulf War needlessly. WMDs were never found. Bush Junior never admitted to his failure. That accrues to a severe loss of face because of lack of credibility. ...