Operation Epic Foolery
- mrymntcpw
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
3/28/26
On this designated "NO KINGS DAY", I offer an opinion about Tramp's chosen war.
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."-Hiram Johnson
[Operation]Epic Fury captures the Trump presidency in its essence. Everything Mr. Trump does, at least as he sees it, is epic — the biggest, the most, the first, “like we’ve never seen before,” as he likes to say. And much of what he does seems to be driven by fury, a deep and abiding enmity toward the forces arrayed against him or those he blames for what he considers the downfall of the country under other presidents.
"Operation Epic Foolery"
This is in a way the Anger Presidency. Anger defines Mr. Trump’s decade on the political stage. Anger at foreigners who come to this country and change its nature. Anger at allies who take advantage of America. Anger at Democrats who cross him. Anger at Republicans who cross him. Anger at appointees he deems insufficiently loyal. Anger at prosecutors, F.B.I. agents, judges, journalists, law firms, elite universities, cultural figures, corporate leaders, pollsters, central bankers and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
-Peter Baker
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."-Jean-Paul Sartre
"I hate war... as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Truth?
We’ve already “won” the war, Trump has said. But the United States should not leave until it finishes the “excursion,” as he’s called it. And he doesn’t need allies for that. “We don’t need anybody,” Trump said yesterday, even as he called for other nations to help take up the task of securing the Strait of Hormuz.
"All warfare is based on deception."-Sun Tzu
Operation Epic Fury is led by these two liars.
In conclusion, I leave you with advice from retired General Stanley McChrystal:
The second seduction, which I lived as a part of, is the surgical Special Operations raid. That is probably epitomized by the Maduro raid. I would argue that we demonstrated extraordinary competence that night, but not much changed. I don’t think that we actually demonstrated the ability to change the facts on the ground to any extent.
So, we entered Iraq in 2003 with “shock and awe,” and then we spent a decade there fighting after it.
I think, in this case [Iran], we again fell for the seduction that if we bomb key targets, we will produce the outcome we want — but the outcome’s in the minds of the people [Iranians]. And unless you’re going to kill all the people, you may not affect that outcome.
We may be at a point — you used the word “quagmire” in your article — but we may be at a point where we’ve run into a country that has an extraordinary capacity to be bombed.
Operation Epic Fury is a colossal mistake and a deadly/costly failure.
CPW
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