Shortly after the United States and Israel launched unprecedented strikes on Iran this weekend, blithely propelling the entire region into unfathomable chaos, the editorial board of the New York Times published its two cents’ worth in an editorial directed towards US sociopath-in-chief Donald Trump: “Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President?”
It’s a valid question, to be sure - particularly given Trump’s previous promise that he wouldn’t entangle the country in unnecessary conflicts abroad.
And yet it is a question that would be far less hypocritically posed by, say, a newspaper that had not once run an opinion piece by John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, titled “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran”.
A few paragraphs into their ostensible antiwar intervention - which was subsequently retitled “Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless” - the Times editorial board contended that the president’s “goals are ill-defined”, while he has “failed to line up the international and domestic support that would be necessary to maximize the chances of a successful outcome”. READ MORE AT MIDDLE EAST EYE.