The bully-in-chief that resides in 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., has tweeted to the world that any hostile response by Iran will be met by 52 strikes, some of them directed to sites that are “very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture.” With that tweet, Trump and by extension our country he presides over were put at the same level of barbaric disposition toward monuments of cultural heritage as the one shared and carried out by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Taliban in Afghanistan and ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
So, what is next that could be expendable in international conflicts? The Acropolis? The Coliseum in Rome? The Taj Mahal (the real one, not the fake one built by Trump)? Despite all that may separate us, nations have come to respect certain common principles and cultural achievements. Thus, a 1954 international agreement (also signed by the US) places cultural monuments outside the acceptable list of targets.
But this President, who continues to govern with the same scorched-earth instincts and practices he applied to his personal and business life, has no respect for the institutions that define American democracy or for international norms and agreements. The already severely depleted political and cultural capital of the US has suffered another irreparable blow by this latest tweet.
It is time that all decent Americans, including those who voted for Trump, stood up and declared to the world this President does not speak for America when he so hideously offends what the world has declared to be part of our shared heritage.
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