Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
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A UN Ambassador would presumably be a high visibility diplomatic position requiring years of prior diplomatic experience, dealing with other countries. The fact that people of such low experience and diplomatic skills are consistently put into place is just another symptom of disintegration. Who was the last UN ambassador of any stature? What’s more, even the ambassadors with some sort of political or diplomatic experience were generally ideologues for the Empire…..
Indeed. Such appointments do mirror the disintegreation and insouciant (arrogance is better name for this) of the imperial rulers. They have long regarded the UN as a tool or a nuisance to be avoided or neutralised, and, in reality, every system reflects its direction and composition. At this advanced state of decomposition and disorder at the core of the empie, we get unqualified manure like Haley and this brainless bimbo. Let us remember that under the Reagan regime, one of the most criminal in recent memory, we had ideologue neocon Jeanne Kirkpatrick, who, like Kissinger, had all the diplomas in… Read more »
In researching my comment, I considered Kirkpatrick, Albright, and the previous parade of right wing imperialist ideologues. Many did have at least University degrees, rather than Halley. On the other hand, given the state of the US educational system, finding someone with real experience plus sound judgment appears non existent. Even Adlai Stevenson told some anti USSR lies.
No need to fret.
At the UN, Blonde Nikki Haley/Heather Nauert will crack under the pressure of having to form 3 coherent sentences together without the help of a teleprompter. and she will return to her natural environs, the swamp known as American “journalism.”
After which, Trump will appoint Sully the Dog as America’s next ambassador to the United Nations.