Goddamn Ike and Churchill, and the Dulles brothers, and all the smart boys in the CIA, with their Operation Ajax, and goddamn all the plutocrats of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and goddamn anyone else involved in the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, which got this whole ball rolling in the first place. Goddamn Barack Obama for realizing far too late the nature of the opposition to his presidency, and goddamn all the politicians who worked to submarine his plans to denuclearize Iran, especially Senator Tom Cotton, the bobble-throated slap-dick from Arkansas who wasn’t in the Senate for 15 minutes before he was writing letters to the mullahs telling them the deal would be worthless the moment another Republican was sworn in, and goddamn him for being right about that. The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
Author: Charles P. Pierce
Published at: 2026-03-01 22:56:00
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