“America can just fly in and use its military base in Spain. Nobody is going to tell us not to use it.”
That statement sums up the political character of 45/47: America’s might puts him in control of the world and enables him to do whatever he wants to do. He is an aggressor and warmonger with impunity.
In June last year (or thereabouts), he and his accomplice, Israel’s Netanyahu, bombed Iran to ostensibly forestall them building nuclear weapons. And currently, some eight months later, their bombs are still targeting nuclear weapons. Further, they have killed Iran’s Supreme Leader and scores of other leaders in a new plan to change the regime and install their own puppet leaders.
The casualties include 150 schoolgirls, about whom we have been hearing precious little in the Western press. They are nothing but collateral damage. But in the meantime, a group of Christian pastors could pray over the 45/47’s head, praying for God’s grace, wisdom, and protection over him, as well as liberty and justice for all.
Christian America and Judaic Israel are the aggressors in this war against Iran, which has since escalated to the rest of the Middle East, and pastors are crying down God’s protection on 45/47, entirely disregarding Muslim and Judaist leaders. The hypocritic incredibleness of it all!
Indeed, it reminds me of the scripture 1 Samuel 15:3: ‘Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants… .’
Incredible! Worse, if you frame it not as a justificatory fictive concoction from men but as a command from God.
45/47 promised his country peace, but it turns out he kills children in Iran and has also taken his warmongering to seven other countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, and Venezuela. He has authorised about 700 strikes. He wants to be personally involved in picking Iran’s next Supreme Leader. He proposes to attack Cuba next. He warns the Iranian police and military to lay down their arms, or they will be killed. No other world leader has done that!
His behaviour has stirred up prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor to observe:
“Who gave you the authority to drag our nation into a war with Iran?”
“Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?”
“True leadership is not measured by war decisions, but by wisdom, respect for others…”
When economist and political analyst Jeffrey Sachs was asked what he thought about 45/47’s conduct, he replied in discombobulation: “He’s crazy.” With his approval ratings recently showing a 9% downward slide, most Americans are distinctly unhappy with where he is taking their country.
The constitution holds a limited number of tools to remove him from office, but find that they cannot. Congress impeaches him, but he is defiant. If they vote against his war, deeming it illegal, he will not budge. If Congress is the constitutional tool to dislodge him, but they can’t. He acts as if he has absolute power.
One of the big questions is what will happen when the decision on a nuclear war comes? We can predict that when it does, he will defy Congress. So what then? We can sound the following warning to him and his supporters from a TikTokker.
In January 1649, King Charles I of England faced the ultimate consequence of absolute power. It was not just an execution; it was a message: no ruler is above the law. The brutal dictator walked onto the scaffold. He stood firm, spoke briefly, then knelt. One swing. A head was sent flying. This is how a crowned king lost his head, not through foreign enemies, but to his own subjects.
Dr Winford James is a retired UWI lecturer who has been analysing issues in education, language, development, and politics in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean on radio and TV since the 1970s. He has also written thousands of columns for all major newspapers in the country.
