Trump against the World

It’s never a pleasure watching Trump on the news, but now more than ever it’s especially obnoxious. He enunciates ever so carefully, slowly spelling out the deep genius of his plan, whereby the Iranians will do what he says, and peace will descend upon the world. There is, of course, nobody in his retinue who is allowed to say that he ever gets things wrong, so in the short term this smug self-satisfaction is unchallenged. Meanwhile, people are killed and frightened, and the volatile country that is Iran - which weeks ago was seriously divided - is suddenly turned into a harmonious nation, united by their hatred of this complacent assassin. and no, don’t tell me. There might even be enough people in the US who like this stuff to give the man another four years in charge. Still, what do we know? We made a similar choice, and we shall have to live with that.