How Trump is handling Iran

I don't go into politics here as much as I might like, just as I don't do enough traditional Irish prayer, language, or culture as I'd like. But one "thing political" that really irks me is people saying Trump is Stupid.

The Iranians recently, through their terrorist vassals (well, really, it was the Iranians; their Houthis vassals couldn't manage such an attack), launched an audacious attack on Saudi Arabian oil fields. Many commentators whom I respect, and I don't mean John Bolton-types, not remotely, were saying President Trump had to act militarily.

But instead, the President is sending a few military people to Saudi Arabia to bolster them a bit. He's letting the Shia Twelvers who run Iran -- in effect -- sit in their stink holes and "act out" till the foam out of their mouths reaches their knees, dripping off their scraggly beards. He's embarrassing them by showing that their temper tantrum isn't going to provoke him. This is exceedingly important because all their terror associates, best buds, and esp their enemies, will see them for the cretins they are. Nothing embarrasses a Muslim like showing the world he's both impotent and infantile. (Allah is supposed -- and this is formal Muslim doctrine -- to give each Muslim man a far greater libido than any non-Muslim man. Therefore, any hint of impotency -- in this case, political and military -- has religious ramifications.)

Or look at it from another angle: Remember when the president moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem? All the Muslim terror threats beforehand, and the damp squib of a Muslim response afterward. Idiot children throwing a tantrum looked more dignified. And effective! (What's the point of throwing a tantrum if the parent walks away?) That showed Muslims everywhere that they had nothing, nothing at all, with which to influence or even terrorize Trump with.

When the Shia Twelver Cult that runs Iran finds out -- as they are finding out -- that they can't provoke Trump the way they could the Bushes or the Democrats, they only realize they've shot their wad. They have nothing left. Their dreams of restoring Persian Empire glory is bat guano. They can't tweak the Bald Eagle's tailfeathers. And all their terror buddies know it. They're losing "face" as would be said in the Far East.

What's more important, their Russian quasi-ally, will see they're useless for what the Russians want to use them for. 

Here, in this Saudi attack, they did something that was really outrageous -- of serious international import, and Trump dismisses them haughtily, then goes on merrily about his business cracking apart the Chicoms' glory dreams in his tariff vise. So, the Iranians sit there and look utterly stupid, which they are, before not only the whole world, but their important terrorist clients, allies, and foes. They've shot their wad. And everyone knows it. 

They can make an ever bigger, more obvious attack.

But were they to do so, even the most hapless, feckless Euros, then, would have to shun them utterly. The Iranians have achieved exactly nothing -- but look like what they are: thugs. And inept, Key Stone Kop thugs, at that.

AnP