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The podcasters end the week arguing over the meaning of the Biden administration’s decision to strike Iranian targets even as they attempt to reenter Obama’s Iran nuclear deal. And wonder as well at the bribery and fecklessness in the $1.9 trillion relief/stimulus bill and what it portends. Give a listen.
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We now have the Hunger Games with the Capitol guarded by troops and federal employees and teachers fat and happy while everyone out in the rest of the country are serfs. Democrat utopia.
Of course normal people are upset about going back to being good buddies with Iran. We pay attention. Pallets of cash John?? Don’t you remember??
It should be stated that part of the reason Jen Psaki and Kamela Harris (and other Democrats, but they’re mentioned as they’re in the current administration) were critical of the Trump administration’s strike in Syria in 2017 was that the strike embarrassed Democrats. It made them look weak, ineffectual, and naively duped.
Obama drew his famous red line (in 2013?) after the first time Assad used chemical weapons in Syria. Then Assad called his bluff and used them again. Obama blustered, huffed and puffed, but did not respond decisively. Then John Kerry worked out a ridiculous deal with Putin in which the Russians would take away and dispose of Assad’s chemical weapons stockpile. Then Assad used chemical weapons again against the civilian population of Khan Sheikhoun at the beginning of the Trump administration in 2017. The Obama administration looked foolish. They had been duped by Russia and Syria. Then Trump actually responded to Assad, enforced Obama’s red line for him, and blew up some Syrian military airfields with a sizeable volley of tomahawk cruise missiles. The Obama administration looked foolish again, and weak. So of course they tried to save face by tweeting that they were against the Trump administration strike on Syria in 2017 on the grounds of international law, getting approval from Congress first, etc. Democrats weren’t being principled, they were publicly shamed and embarrassed.
That’s a significant part of the context for the Democrats being against the strike in 2017, but for (most of them) this strike in 2021.