in Featured World News Isn’t it just the best thing that we’ve finally got a President of the USA who calls a shithole a shithole?
In fact of all Donald Trump’s many qualities, I think this may be his greatest and his most underrated strength.
But you’re not supposed to say this. At least not in respectable company. Even now – after all his incredible achievements – you’re still only allowed to praise Donald Trump if first you’ve preceded it with lots of disclaimers about how much you deplore his sexism, his brashness, his incoherence and general uncouthness…
I think Donald Trump is amazing. And I think what makes him so amazing – or rather, so effective as politician and a world leader – is that vulgarity which we’re all supposed to pretend is his fatal flaw.
No it’s not. It’s his secret weapon.
Take Iran, possibly the single most important geopolitical story in the world right now.
Why? Because after nearly 40 years of being the world’s prime exporter and fomenter of terrorism, as well as being probably the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East, Iran is in the midst of a revolution which could change everything.
For some background read this brilliant Spectator article by Douglas Murray.
Short version: Iran is a shithole of the first order.
Since the overthrow of the Shah by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 it has been an Islamic republic, run by brutal, intransigent mullahs and policed by the vicious paramilitary thugs of the Revolutionary Guard. These Islamic fanatics have been responsible for numerous American and allied deaths, everywhere from Afghanistan (where they helped manufacture many of the deadliest IEDs) to Lebanon where they have worked closely with their ideological allies Hezbollah, likely responsible for the massacre of 241 US Marines during the notorious 1983 Beirut barrack bombing. More recently, they managed to humiliate both the US and the Royal Navy by capturing their personnel in the Persian Gulf – making them cry and grovel, reducing the world’s two proudest naval forces into an international laughing stock.
But it’s even worse for the people who have to live in this shithole. That’s why, after nearly four decades of living under this Islamic tyranny, being dragged into expensive foreign military engagements which have cost millions of Iranian lives and bled the economy dry, the people are once more in revolt.
What’s so exciting is that, unlike the 2009 Green Revolution, which mainly involved Iran’s (surprisingly large) bourgeois student population, this is a much more widespread revolt – as Douglas Murray describes.
full story at http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/14/james-delingpole-trump-making-world-great-one-shithole-time/