Hillary's crimes re: her illegal server and obstruction of justice were confirmed by the head of the FBI, who then announced he wasn't going to prosecute, soon after Bill met with his boss in attempted secret at the airport, onboard her plane. A cynic would assume he didn't want to hang himself.
OTOH, the Trump-Russia myths were announced as as false by a multi year Federal investigation.
The issue is not what I did. Not a single person, not one single person, even that thug Giuliani and his [unintelligible] compatriots have said I did anything other than my job. … This is all about a diversion.”
Oh, well I do say he did far "more" than his job, since his family made millions from foreign companies and governments in obvious bribes.
And the heart of the impeachment is the legitimacy of investigating HIS corruption. I wouldn't want to testify either in his shoes.
The U.S. Policy on China to enrich the Chinese people even at the expense of our own, began in the Nixon administration. The logic that a Better fed, more wealthy, even middle class Chinese people would reject their Evil Masters and join civilization may yet come true.
The Leaders have made it clear that they will murder as many as they have to, to stay in power. ( that hasn't changed ) So Trump's timing to put pressure on the most murderous regime in human history may be excellent.
But unless & until the Chinese people decide the only path to freedom is to systematically and suddenly, rise up and stop the Leaders in a very personal way, expect a l o t of spilled blood.
And feel free to draw parallels with Presidential candidates that belatedly insist they were just joking about murdering thousands of innocent civilians to enforce their whims.
I'm mildly curious as to the response. I hope the proper security is in place so no one gets hurt because of leaks from Deep State scum. It seems a great opportunity to concoct a fake response, say, a missile strike on Iran Fancy name Guard forces in Syria. Just to trace who leaks it to the Washington Post & CNN. ( both would be thrilled to support Iran by announcing the strike ) Then, of course, you'd have everyone in the chain of information being watched, and you'd find out who you can then use to feed garbage to the Press & Enemy. ( if that's not redundant )
Then we'd hit some other target. Hezbollah in Lebanon might be nice. I have long assumed the oil tanker loading facility is being reserved for putting extra pressure on China. ( they get a lot of oil from Iran )
It's a touchy thing, fighting local nationals from an Embassy in a foreign country. If you unleash an ODA or SEAL team to just start merc'ing fighters in the street, the local (and US) media will show the evil, racist American government slaying poor innocent protestors.
I wish we could just EMP everyone's phones and cameras, neutralize the threats, and move on with our lives.
I don't mean defended the Embassy. I mean punishing Iran for yet another violation of international law. No big hurry, & I hope it's Epic.
As far as defending the Embassy goes? The end of season 1 of Spartacus, Blood and Sand has rivers of blood, quite dramatic.
I've long been a proponent of exploiting the lie that "the captured terrorist isn't really a Muslim. His actions don't reflect on us." by violating Islamic Customs in their disposal.
No, I'm not being petty. It's a proven tactic dating back centuries. We used it in the Philippines, during the Moro uprising, spreading the rumor we dipped our bullets in pig blood. ( we did not ) Faced with eternal damnation, it reduced attacks. It would work today, if we cared nothing about idiot's opinions. Complaints that they were proper Muslims would prove the denials were lies.
And we don't have to actually do it. Just leak that we do. The New York Times can be exploited too. Just tell a traitor.
Also - as for outing the rats (too many to out, IMHO) - what's it called? The strategy where you leak different, conflicting bits of information to all of your suspects, and see which bit of info makes it out? Like, you tell the Army General, "we're going to take Iwo Jima". you tell the Navy, "we're going to Leyte Gulf", tell the marines, "We're raiding the halls of Montezuma", and so on.
Then you monitor your enemies to see who starts digging in and increasing military presence.
I'm surprised Trump hasn't done something of this sort.
5 or 6 years ago, if you googled "bullets in pigs blood", you had several historical articles about what happened. I also recall Cook's Uprising having similar results. I know this because I first heard about it, and googled it, while "W" was in office. Back when I worked at the local HD dealership. A fellow tech told me about it.
Now, the only things you can find, is "Trump resurrects lies about General Pershing" and the like.
Edit. It's funny that history is history, up until a certain point, when a new version of the story comes out of nowhere, and then the MSM, and university professors, and fact checkers with agendas, suddenly embrace this new version of the story as though that's all they'd ever known.
According to this article https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/08/pershing-trump-terrorism/537300/ the first time that General Pershing didn't actually shoot muzzy's with pigs blood was in 2001, by Snope's. Prior to that, the story only ever existed one way. And it stopped Islamic attacks for decades.
Edit. It's funny that history is history, up until a certain point, when a new version of the story comes out of nowhere, and then the MSM, and university professors, and fact checkers with agendas, suddenly embrace this new version of the story as though that's all they'd ever known.
I'm surprised this sort of thing was never written about in fiction...
That was quicker than I expected, but nicely targeted. Also a double message. To the Mullahs, pretty simple, but to the Iraqi government that has been apparently willingly moving to suck up to Iran, it's a great lesson that the Obama policies are over.
Obama sucked up hard to the Iranian Mullahs. Gave them a plane load of untraceable cash. And effectively abandoned the Iraqis. There are religious reasons for the Iraqi leaders to ally with Iran against their own people. And Obama basically pushed them to do so to.