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Americas Libyan Detritus: The One Time Trump Was Right – It Was All Obama's Fault

• by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)

Dark times breed – maybe demand – dark humor. Iraq and Afghanistan taught me as much. The coronavirus makes it plain as day; so does Donald Trump. Look, the guy is a buffoon and – if you happen to be the wrong color or live in the wrong country – kind of a monster. But he is (sometimes) funny. I mean, that Nancy "Antoinette" Pelosi ice cream ad: "Let them eat cake [ice cream]?" It killed! (And serves notice for Uncle Joe to brace himself for what's coming). Trump wasn't exactly wrong about Pelosi either.

Still The Donald's obsessions are what strike me as equal parts horrifying and hysterical. On this count, the gold standard has to be Trump's "Thanks Obama!" meme-like propensity to blame anything and everything – including COVID-19 (and the temperature in the White House) – on his predecessor. He's rarely right, of course, but this Trumpian proclivity reminds me of another darkly jocular anecdote.

Back in 1987, when Rep. Stephen J. Solarz (the now deceased Brooklyn Democrat) visited a CIA-run Nicaraguan insurgent training camp, a U.S. intel agent introduced him to one of the "Contra" fighters. This future war criminal – the U.S.-backed death squads slaughtered thousand of civilians – was wearing a ball cap that read "Admit Nothing – Deny Everything – Make Counter-Accusations." Asked where he got it, the contra officer replied "the special effects shop in Langley,'' Virginia – where the CIA is headquartered. Hilarious, right? Well, the Agency thought so, at least, since it became an unofficial organizational motto.


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