As Trump escalates his unprovoked attacks on Iran, the US defense posture become more and more tentative. In the meanwhile, US foreign policy and the Iran war is driven by the lies of this malignant narcissistic psychopath as well as the lies of virtually every member of his cabinet. The US has become the exact opposite of what John Quincy Adams posited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ But she [the United States of America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit... -John Quincy Adams July 4, 1821 👆🏼We are here. Read 'em and weep. 👆🏼
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