How Much Do You Suck (To lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein) Pam Ho Follow Mar 13 · 5 min read

More US soldiers dying in the Middle East is not what Trump wants going into the election. But that is exactly what is going to happen.

America’s enemies in the Middle East are well aware of election priorities for Trump. Why do you think they have been waiting to start with their attacks till now? Those attacks are going to continue as the election season narrows. They want to goad Trump into getting more and more involved in a military reaction which inevitably will lead to more death and therefore more bad press for him right before the election. Trump will be seeing a lot of this:

WTF is Trump doing in Iraq & Syria?

A few months ago media outlets from the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq claimed the US was planning on building military bases near the Iranian border. That was right after Iraqi leadership asked the Americans to leave. Trump then threatened massive sanctions and to destroy their economy if forced to leave. Whether or not the Trump administration told Kurdish leaders about building new bases remains to be seen (they denied it). What we know is that Trump’s people are antagonizing Iraqi leadership by cozying up to the Kurdish Barzani clan controlling Kurdistan. That is seen as a response to the bad relationship that developed between Trump and Iraqi leaders. That bad relationship came into public view when PM Abdul-Madhi claimed that Trump attacked Iraqi and Iranian military leaders a few months ago because of Abdul-Madhi signing deals with the Chinese government for infrastructure projects and oil.

There are also claims about plans to forcibly divide Iraq up into three regions due to the Iraqi government’s decision to no longer play ball with American plans for the region. Which by the by does not include any Iranian influence. Which means the Iraqi, Syrian, and Lebanese governments, will continue to be on shaky ground. The US government will continue to bring to bear everything they can to undermine and remove those governments. Reports have come out that because of the bad blood of an American presence with the Iraqi people, that NATO will take over for the American agenda. Which is like trying to stem the bleeding from a gunshot to the gut with a band-aid. The people in those countries are not dumb.

US policy in the region couldn’t be more misguided. How do you govern the region by making the people hate you? Do the mandarins in DC Think Tank Land really believe they have a winning strategy by trying to force their agenda on people who are well aware of what is going on? How does that work exactly? It doesn’t. Which is why it isn’t. Those think tanks that are funded by American and foreign money drive US policy. They are staffed by people who are paid to tell their donors what they want to hear.

And what they want to hear is that there is a path to victory over Iranian influence in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. What they don’t want to be told is the truth — you cannot win a war over the hearts and minds of the people of those countries. You have already lost them. Which means there is no path to victory. All you can do now is prolong their suffering and of the American soldiers and their families. All Trump is doing is losing support. Not only from his supporters, but also from all the people in the region. His allowing a continuation of the haphazard violence and belligerent behavior by the US in the region with an openly vitriolic imperial demeanor — only incites rebellion. And more American casualties.

From: Why is the US launching a new war on Iraq