Welp, that was a massive pile of bullshit. [View all]

[nolabear]

Do you suppose he actually thinks he's telling them something they care to hear? He set up another bad guy (Iran) and expects, what? These authoritarians and kings to slap their foreheads and break into song? The backstage deals with terrorists to go away? The ethnic battles to stop?

That was a regime change speech with Iran as the "enemy." I have friends in Iran who were trying hard to back this country and create change from within to re-enter the global system, and are beginning to feel abandoned in their own fight, cannon fodder for a madman's ambitions.

He's a user. He's a despot. He's trying to use the Middle East as fuel.