Trump: What’s Next?
From the BBC: Not that we didn’t know that already, but let’s summarize what we have here. The President of the United States overturned a deal forged to discourage nuclear proliferation, upending the work of the best minds in the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, China, Germany and the EU, for his own personal sense of pleasure in punishing a political enemy.
A related question: How childishly does a U.S. president have to behave, how mentally unstable does he have to be before he’s removed? The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution contemplates this precise eventuality: a president who lacks the mental/emotional health to perform his duties; it provides a specific tool for his removal, so as to protect the people of the United States, and the rest of the world as well.
What’s it going to take? We’re at a place now that is the moral equivalent of partying with a friend who’s become so drunk he can’t stand up, and we’re handing him his car keys encouraging him to drive home. Not taking action at this point is very likely to become a crime of unforgettable proportion that history will never forget.
Craig,
Firstly, this is not the opinion of the BBC. It’s the opinion of those who are miffed that the very weak and meaningless deal done with Iran by Obama, who also gave oil rich Iran $150 billion of US tax payer money to sign a meaningless document.
Before the election, as a candidate, Donald Trump denounced the deal as weak ineffective and would be seen as a license by Iran to continue to expand an ongoing program of interference and radicalization of its neighbors.
When elected President, President Trump kept his election promise and terminated US support for the deal, which the Iranians were already circumventing.
The President is willing to support a more stringent deal with Iran for economic progress, on the condition Iran abandons its aggressive policies.
Like North Korea and other international trouble makers, the current President has always announced an unwillingness to settle for meaningless symbolism and paying “Danegeld” for appeasement.
President Trump is simply keeping his election promises! Reversing Obama’s policy mistakes and bad deals, isn’t an act of “spite”, but carrying out his election platform.
It unfortunate for Kim Darroch that his confidential memo’s were leaked, but it does prove he’s a very “undiplomatic Diplomat’.
Kim Darroch seems to have based his judgement on conversations with a small group of anti-Trump journalists and Obama supporters with who he has developed close ties. He seems to have forgotten he’s not a journalist or politician, but an diplomat who should form his opinions from his own judgement.
The next UK ambassador will be an appointee of Boris Johnson. It’s to be hoped he is more security savvy, far more insightful and conveys his opinions in more diplomatic language.