During the previous White House stint of Donald Trump, I had raised a question on a social media platform about the aura of the man. The reactions to that post included some that I still remember, like, “it is very imbalanced” and that the “colours for the most part are dark and muddy”. Someone had remarked: “It is very similar to his foreign policy; a hot mess.” This was, mind you, a good six years ago. Things, as we have seen, have only gone worse since.
During the last term, Trump at least did not start any new war. This time he has been facilitating the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. In doing so, Trump remains the sole hindrance to world peace, with the United States being the only member of the United Nations Security Council t have vetoed any and every resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire.
As if this was not enough, Trump fully defended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to attack Iran, and then went on to take a direct part in the conflict. Trump, facing difficult times at home and being unable to fight on so many needless fronts that he has opened up, perhaps sees his survival only in solid support from pro-Israel lobbies.
Trump has become such a firm backer of Netanyahu that he even rejected the claim of his own intelligence agencies, which unequivocally declared that far from being very near to the preparation of nuclear bombs, Iran was not even making any effort in that direction.
Even the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expressed the same opinion, but Trump dismissed it all, saying “I don’t care”. He demanded unconditional surrender from Iran, and personally hurled threats to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Now the world is in immediate need to find an alternative sensible leader-ship that must sort out the mess created by extremists Trump and Netanyahu.
S R H HASHMI
KARACHI
