Analysis by former Budget Director David Stockman. It's a bit lengthy, but spot on:
The Donald’s action to ash-can the Iranian nuclear deal marks the War Party’s complete and baleful triumph. There is now nothing much left of America First.
Trump’s reckless, unwarranted and utterly irrational action will pull Washington ever deeper into an incendiary middle eastern vortex of political and religious conflict that has absolutely nothing to do with the safety and security of the America people.
To the contrary, picking a fight with Tehran is an exercise in unprovoked Imperial aggression. The Iranian regime has no means to attack America militarily and has never threatened to do so. Nor has it invaded any other country in the region where it was not invited by a sovereign government host.
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In short, the Donald has fallen for a pack of lies and distortions that are only remotely plausible if the aim is to find enemies and territories around the planet to police, occupy or otherwise hegemonize. And to thereby keep the Warfare State in business, its $800 billion budget funded, and the Imperial City’s vast beehive of think-tanks, contractors, NGOs, lobbyists and racketeers in clover.
The invincible grip on power of the above – the Deep State for short-hand purposes – has now been proven. And that’s a full-on tragedy because the Donald’s inchoate notion of America First was an incipient challenge to its power – the only one since the end of the cold war.
You can read the rest @
https://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2018/05/09/the-donalds-done-the-deep-state-wins-its-war-on-america-first/
And once again, We the People shall pay the price for all that the deep state desires.
How can we bring "democracy" to the world when we don't even have it here?
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