There are reports out that our military has asked analysts and even military personnel for creative ideas to pressure and punish Iran. I don't have my top secret clearance anymore....it probably expired fifty-four years ago....but I have an idea. Here is where you have to get creative because Trump will never do it. Go to Nato and Europe and admit that a great mistake was made in calling Europe every name in the book....over years....purposely tearing apart a strong alliance that had lasted for seventy-seven years....and then come together in this effort! Trump threatened them and hammered and tried to humiliate them every chance that he got....but things were good for him then....and he could never see more than a few months down the line....nor does he care what happens after he is out of office. So figure out a way for Trump to apologize....without looking like he is apologizing....and maybe they can do a little apologizing themselves....because they have made as many mistakes as we have.
I thought this a good time to bring back a post from August of 2019:
Good-bye Langley
You are an analyst for the CIA. You're 64 years old and set to retire at the end of the year so you have seen a lot in your career....and developed a sense of spotting trouble when something is not right. Today Putin is being pushed in Russia....and he has a nasty habit of pushing back. Hong Kong may explode. The trade wars may back the Communist Party of China into a corner that they will have to fight their way out of. Both Russia and China have fiercely been stocking up on gold. The Mullahs in Iran are more than willing to go to war....along with their surrogates....provided there are other wars going on. Meanwhile.....Kim Jong-un just commissioned his newest submarine and is testing ballistic rocket systems right and left.
You've got a memo already typed up and ready to push the send button....a worst-case scenario....but no one to send it to....for everybody above you is focusing on Venezuela....on the possibility of a blockade.....for 'humanitarian purposes' of course....certainly not oil. You wonder if you should have included Venezuela to get their attention. You delete the memo from the computer and roll up the printed copy....tossing it the waste can....to be burned later. You decide to vacation out instead of waiting until the end of the year.
They all shake your hand on your last day. You buy a comfortable cabin in the remotest section of Cook Forest, Pennsylvania where there is no WiFi or cable television. You bring a book that you've always meant to read.....page one....by the time that you have read through the book of Daniel you wish that you had sent that memo....by the time you've finished Revelation you think about....and utter the words out loud of the second thief on the cross....from the Gospel of Luke you believe....for you know no other way to put it...."Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
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