Shit....National Security Council expert says, re trump.........

[dixiegrrrrl]

Link to tweet

[dewsgirl]

1. Horrific situation unfolding in real time.😳😳😳

[Takket]

2. oh... the process exists........

the problem is once they go through the process, the persons they report to will be more interested in asking Iraq for dirt on Bernie Sanders then actually prepping the country for any kind of Iranian response.

[Pachamama]

3. The alarms are going off right now

This is absolutely serious and people in the know realize it.

The psycho is going to take us into a bloody war...

A nuclear one even

[UniteFightBack]

4. I know I'm scared too. nt

[Sonny Mirviss]

5. All this for a GODDAMNED sit-in at the 100 BILLION dollar Embassy in Baghdad

And some screwy, quaint, out of date notion that an embassy is the sovereign soil of its country.

President Carter put an end to that sillyness and avoided an all out war.

Orangeman is going to get us all blown up.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. Sit-in?

Photos Show Destruction at US Embassy in Baghdad After Attacks


Smoke rises from the reception room of the U.S. embassy that was burned by Pro-Iranian militiamen and their supporters, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) -- Military.com


Fire damage can be seen in a reception room of the U.S. embassy compound, that was burned by pro-Iranian militiamen and their supporters, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020 (AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra) -- Military.com
....

This is a sit-in:

Courage at the Greensboro Lunch Counter
On February 1, four college students sat down to request lunch service at a North Carolina Woolworth’s and ignited a struggle


After being refused service at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's, four African-American men launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America. (Jack Moebes / Corbis)

By Owen Edwards
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE | SUBSCRIBE
FEBRUARY 2010
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More:

The Very First Sit-In At A Greensboro Woolworth's, 1960 (Photos)
Culture | March 19, 2019
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Source: (joelrieves.com)
....

[Sonny Mirviss]

21. Yes sit-in

It's another word for a protest.
No one group owns it.

37 Arrested In Vietnam Sit-In
By Stephen E. Cotton, (Special to the Summer News)
August 9, 1965

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- About 37 demonstrators were arrested here this morning after an all-night sit-in front of the White House to protest American policy in Vietnam.

Policeman who had said that "they can stay here as long as they want," when the demonstrators blocked the Northwest gate Friday, changed their minds after the protesters spread out and blocked all seven entrances to the White House.

Most Released

About half of those arrested were charged with blocking the entrance to a public building and half with failing to move when ordered to by a police officer. Police said most were released later although "a couple" were still being hold.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1965/8/9/37-arrested-in-vietnam-sit-in-pwashington/

[AllyCat]

22. Even given the poor choice of words, is our response worth it?

[Loge23]

25. Set-up?

Or does anyone have a credible explanation as to why what is reputedly the most fortified embassy in the world is allowed to be stormed by thugs and damaged to the extent shown in the above photos?
Nothing - absolutely nothing - about this entire shitshow portrays us (or the U.S.) as some kind of innocent victims of the "evil" Iranians. This was a provocation by a witless idiot on a goddamn golf course - and now many truly innocent lives will end because of it.

[underpants]

27. Fox News called it a sit-in

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212827325

[Hekate]

35. I think you are confused. Unclear on the concept. I don't think this means what you think it means.

The point of a sit-in is that it is PEACEFUL.

If Dr King's protestors had done that, they would have been slaughtered, and would have gone down in history as violent insurrectionists.

Welcome to DU.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. God help us? If there is a God he/she/it is letting this play out.

[AllyCat]

23. Exactly. The "god" that is letting this happen?

We need to save ourselves.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

7. Those who know what could be about to unfold here,

"professional" students of history and conflict and Middle East ambitions, people who have worked in counter-intel and national security SHOULD be terrified. Her words sum it all up perfectly.

And this - if Malcolm Nance is sounding the alarm bells, a lot of people - including me - are going to be losing sleep. LOTS of it.

Indeed . . . GOD HELP US.

[Curtis]

9. This will be remembered as the

Franz Ferdinand moment for the upcoming conflagration

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Any and all of our troops in the M.E./Afghanistan are going to be in danger

Pompeo's comments of 3 days ago seems more ominous now....

Link to tweet

[rickyhall]

8. If our Idiot n Chief decides to run the himself we could get our asses kicked.

At least the Bushes relied on generals like Schwarzkopf.

[pazzyanne]

10. I join you in being terrified!

I have no faith in tRump and his administration being able to handle this new self made problem based on tRumps lack of a coordinated Middle East issues. God help us all.

[Hortensis]

11. Another tweet, Marine operation in Baghdad. Khazali

is apparently the leader of a pro-Iranian Iraqi militia umbrella group involved in the attack on the embassy.

Talking heads are saying Soleimani was a bad man, but not saying killing him was a good idea at all.

Link to tweet

[BootinUp]

12. We b f'ckd. Swear to the S.Monster. Nt

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Jerry Falwell Jr will survive WW III.

The rest of humanity, not so much.

[soldierant]

18. You consider him a part of humanity?

I don't believe I do.

[jayschool2013]

15. Sociopathic mobsters eventually "go to the mattresses"

It's inevitable, and our children will be in the crossfire.

[spanone]

16. trump is cornered, dangerous as they come.

wagging the dog.

[DanieRains]

17. Put Jared In Charge

He was gonna fix the Middle East right?

[underpants]

30. I thought Jared already fixed that

Who knew?

[certainot]

19. meanwhile we let the same 1500 putin-fed radio stations that described the

obama-iran nuke deal as treason scream extra loud in any national emergency....
when the fuck are americans going to wake the fuck up

[Vinca]

24. That's terrifying.

[Efilroft Sul]

26. If we grow terrified, we're giving Trump too much control over our lives.

Fear makes us passive, it weakens us, and it will prevent us from removing this manipulative bastard from office.

Let your natural aversion to authoritarianism motivate you and strengthen you instead.

[nolabear]

28. We have sunk to the tribal level. It's horrifying.

I fear the world will tilt as tribes, not complex governmental systems, simply hurl bigger and bigger bombs at one another.

I have never wished more that there was somewhere else to go.

[dustyscamp]

29. Trump is probably going to ramp up his border wall bs now

[SergeStorms]

31. Who needs a functioning national security process....

when we have Donald Trump's "gut".

[warmfeet]

32. Agreed.

This does not seem to bode well.

We may need fortuitous events to prevent all out war.

[samplegirl]

33. So who will be in

trumps ear? Talk about frightening?

[Hekate]

34. What we dont have is a functioning Senate. Moscow Mitch and Spineless Lindsay are the death ...

...of the republic in real time.