Trump gave a speech at the opening of the United Nations today. I think that it was the most unsettling speech ever given at the institution devoted to world peace, even more than the comments made by Adlai Stevenson during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Trump said:
“Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild, and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”
Who talks about the annihilation of a country with 93 million citizens? And who has ever had the means to accomplish that objective “quickly”? These are the words of a person bereft of any sense of proportion or morality. The words of a person who should be kept away from instruments of power. The words of a ruthless killer.
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