All the Way Down

As for me, I’m glad General Flynn is out.

All I ever hoped from Trump is that he might change the trajectory for a war of principals or proxies with Russia that Hillary and the rest of the Republicans and Democrats had charted.  And all that could be said of Flynn was that he might have been helpful in that regard.  But the impulsive Trump is not one to rely upon.  The White House’s announcement yesterday that Trump expects Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine suggests all the forethought that went into Trump’s rash call last year for Americans to boycott Apple.

Exactly none.

As for Flynn, he looks to have advanced the most specious concoction of global alliances since David Frum came up with Bush’s bogus Axis of Evil. And anyone who can exaggerate the threat we face from Iran the way Flynn has is clearly a war lunatic.

So while I’m glad he’s gone, Flynn will only be replaced by another lunatic whispering in Trump’s ear.

The State is like the cosmology of the primitive who scoffed at the explanation that the earth is in orbit around the sun.

“Everybody knows,” he explained, “that the world rests on the back of a giant sea turtle.”

But when asked what that turtle stands upon, he answered, “It is on the back of another turtle.”

When asked what the second turtle stands on, he answered, “It’s quite simple. It’s turtles – turtles – turtles all the way down.”

In the State it’s lunatics – lunatics – lunatics all the way down.

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11:50 am on February 15, 2017