People, Personas, and Politics 28 – Sarin Gas and Bombs
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/16
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Rick Rosner: Less than a week ago, Trump attacked a Syrian airbase from which Syria had dropped sarin gas or launched a mission to drop sarin gas on its own people. Trump launched 59 Tomahawk missiles and did some, but not a great deal of, damage. He received some praise for being kind of presidential or decisive from various pundits on the TV news. Trump is now known for not reading much of anything, especially books.
He watches hours of TV news every day. Just a couple of hours ago, I guess, Trump dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal called the Mother of All Bombs weighing 22,000 pounds and costing $314 million. He dropped that on what is being a called an ISIS tunnel complex in Afghanistan. This thing is supposed to have a blast radius of a mile. Anyway, you’d expect that radius from a small nuke.
And we’ve yet to hear how the decision was made. He was the guy who said, “Do it.” He’s have to be the guy. How justified was it? But it leads to the fear that Trump is all over Twitter right now. There are tweets that claim that this is a distraction from his campaign people and possibly Trump himself colluded with Russia to influence the election. His campaign chairman Paul Manafort just registered as a foreign agent.
That is, an American who represents our interests. I think there are one or two other people who having to do this. It becomes more and more apparent that Trump’s people were working closely with Russia as Russia employed all sorts of propaganda and leaks and pacts to make people vote against Hillary. And so—but everybody knows all of this now. And the people who don’t know this are actively trying to not know this by consuming and looking at alternate news sources and disbelieving mainstream news sources.
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