Thought For The Day

Credit Where Credit Is (Not) Due

October 28, 2019

None but Donald Chrump could cheapen the long overdue demise of a murderous terrorist leader by turning it into a pissing contest with his predecessor, and another in a ballooning inventory of unseemly and pitiable pleas for adulation.

The operation, months in the planning, was made more challenging by Chrump’s thoughtless, ill-advised birthday present to Vladimir Putin, giving him Syria with no strings attached.  Nonetheless, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.  Donald Chrump remains, in his own special way, alive.

Naturally, Chrump first thanked Russia.  One would have thought that handing Syria to Putin on a silver platter and hanging the Kurds out to dry was thanks enough.  We also learned that Chrump had notified Russia of the operation before notifying Democratic leadership, just in case anyone questioned where his loyalties lie.  The cherry on top of this banana shit sundae though, was the Russian military publicly questioning the official US account of the raid that killed al-Baghdadi.

The Manchurian-Commander-in-chief eventually got around to thanking the brave men and women who actually carried out the mission, though he ultimately took most of the credit for himself.  Chrump's almost complete dissociation from reality very likely allows him to see himself as the trigger man.

It is entirely possible, that by divulging an unheard-of, and probably inappropriate degree of detail about a secret operation by special forces who tend to prefer to keep their business under wraps, Chrump has created yet another national security nightmare.  His pathetic gloating, threats and insults will almost certainly provide further incentive for revenge by ISIS, which Chrump insists (despite all evidence to the contrary, as usual) he obliterated…or was that exonerated? 

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