The embassy seizure was made even more appalling by the spectacle of US State Department Diplomatic Security, US Secret Service, and DC Metropolitan police officers aiding and abetting in the crime by refusing to step in and prevent serial assaults committed by the pro-Guaidó emigres on unarmed American antiwar protesters (a similar incident occurred in May 2017 when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s armed thugs pummeled protesters in Washington DC’s Sheridan Circle in broad daylight). The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and public interest are served, is always present in the public-spirited and the self-respecting. In a normal country with a functioning constitutional system, his two illegal wars – against alleged drug-runners in the Caribbean and their sponsors in Venezuela, and against Iran on behalf of a genocidal government in Israel – his servility toward Netanyahu (in August, Trump referred to the Israeli mass-murderer as a “hero”), the Gulf State tyrants (one of which gifted him a luxury airliner), and his hosting at the White House a ‘former’ member of Al Qaeda now masquerading as the president of Syria, would be enough to merit removal.
Author: James Carden
Published at: 2026-01-04 23:28:15
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