Saturday, February 4, 2017

Explaining Trump to Iran

I GREET YOU, officials of the government of the sovereign state of Iran, an the Iranian people, from the united States of America. My message is this: please feel free to disregard any and all communications you receive from the administration of Donald Trump. The agreement you reached with president Obama and other heads of state concerning your nuclear weapons program remains in effect, and will long beyond the life of the Trump presidency. Trump's threat to disavow the agreement and to replace it with a new one is ludicrous and laughable, and will never take place, because Mr. Trump is destined to remain in office for only four years, or less. Similarly, the administration's proposal to add to the nuclear stockpile of the United States is also a bogus threat, since the United States is, and has long been, committed to the continued reduction of the world's nuclear weapons, as it has been since the days of Reagan and Gorbachev. The current administration is the least popular since that of Abraham Lincoln, and will most likely continue to decline in acceptance by the American people, as its credibility withers away amid an avalanche of poor policy decisions and outrageous false statements. Your recent testing of a ballistic missile is no threat to American security nor anyone else's, but merely a demonstration of your intent to pursue your own defensive capabilities, in accordance with the policies undertaken by nearly every other nation state in the world. It is ironic that the only nation in world history to ever murder hundreds of thousands of innocent people with nuclear weapons has the audacity to presume to serve as a global enforcer of other nation's nuclear capabilities aside, the United States will eventually come to understand that it alone cannot and h ould not assert itself as the authority over the affairs of any other sovereign nation. We the people of the United States shall continue to strive to ensure that our country behaves in an appropriate fashion on the word stage, but will have difficulty doing so while the current administration, which is arguably illegitimate, remains in power. It is to be hoped that this unfortunate circumstance will be remedied soon enough, but until it is, we can assure you that its every action is highly questionable, and quite likely, if we are fortunate, only temporary.

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