Trump’s Iran war doctrine: Stone Age thinking – The Seattle Times
Several times in his social media screeds and public pronouncements, President Donald Trump has threatened to send Iran back to “the stone ages,” apparently oblivious to the fact that there has been but one Stone Age.
The president’s threats come and go, changing on his whims, but he continues to assert his willingness to decimate Iranian bridges and energy facilities, even if such destruction directed against civilian targets would be considered a war crime. Maybe Iran will soon be pummeled so badly that the country’s people will be reduced to living a Stone Age-like existence, or maybe not. Not even Trump knows. The commander in chief is making it up as he goes along while his war spirals out of control.
If anything exhibits aspects of the Stone Age, it is the way Trump and Pete Hegseth, the dreadfully unqualified “Secretary of War,” are conducting themselves like a pair of troglodytes wildly smashing things with big clubs, beating their chests as they incoherently roar. If there is a strategy formulated in their un-evolved brains, it seems to be this: Bellow, bomb, bellow some more, drop a few F-bombs and declare victory when things go from bad to worse.
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