Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, calls bullshit on Trump in a series of cutting articles on his website.
Adams tore into Trump and his response to Syrian president Bashar Hafez al-Assad’s chemical attack on his own people.
The first article, “The Syrian Gas Attack Persuasion,” was published last Thursday morning, hours before U.S. warships launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the airfield in Syria from which the chemical attack was launched.
Clearly skeptical of the so-called “facts” surrounding the chemical attack, Adams began his article writing:
The reason the Assad government would bomb its own people with a nerve agent right now is obvious. Syrian President Assad – who has been fighting for his life for several years, and is only lately feeling safer – suddenly decided to commit suicide-by-Trump. Because the best way to make that happen is to commit a war crime against your own people in exactly the way that would force President Trump to respond or else suffer humiliation at the hands of the mainstream media.
Adams goes on to state that “It is almost as if someone designed this ‘tragedy’ to be camera-ready for President Trump’s consumption. It pushed every one of his buttons.”
Continuing, he details a list of reasons for his skepticism:
- Interesting timing.
- Super-powerful visual persuasion designed for Trump in particular.
- Suspiciously well-documented event for a place with no real press.
- No motive for Assad to use gas to kill a few dozen people at the cost of his entire regime. It wouldn’t be a popular move with Putin either.
- The type of attack no U.S. president can ignore and come away intact.
- A setup that looks suspiciously similar to the false WMD stories that sparked the Iraq war.
And yes, this sounds a little creepy – a bit like an Alex Jones conspiracy theory. But it is interesting that Adams, known for his right-wing leanings is taking a position counter to that of the Trump regime.
In his next article, “The Syrian Air Base Attack,” Adams speculates about some of the “low-cost benefits” of dropping 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against Syria, many of the same ones listed by leading respected mainstream media outlets, to include the fact that “Trump just solved the allegation that he is Putin’s puppet.”
Interestingly enough, that sentiment was echoed by Trump’s youngest son, Eric, spoke with The Telegraph. According to The Telegraph:
Donald Trump’s decision to launch a cruise missile attack on Syria proved he is not in league with Russia and will not be “pushed around” by Vladimir Putin, the US President’s son has told The Daily Telegraph.
Eric Trump said his father was not intimidated by President Putin’s talk of war, and there would be “no-one harder” than President Trump if they “cross us”.
Speaking to Russia, Adams writes that while “we have the possibility of getting into war with Russia. I’d put those odds at roughly zero in this case because obviously the U.S. warned Russia about the attack.”
Adams’ latest article on Trump, “Trusting Your Government in a Time of War,” begins with with his analysis of Trump’s ongoing war with “truth.”
Trump’s critics and supporters agree on one thing: Our new president has a history of “stretching” the truth whenever there is some advantage in doing so, and sometimes even when there is not. You might say he is famous for playing loose with the facts. We all expect a high degree of “hyperbole” from President Trump, to put it kindly.
Adams concludes his article, writing that:
My view is that the public will never know for sure who was behind the Syrian gas attack. But I also think it doesn’t matter because most of the world believes Assad was behind it…
Some critics have pointed out that launching 59 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles is expensive. But it is starting to look like a good investment, at least so far. That could change, of course.
It is entirely possible that Assad launched the gas attacks to test for a U.S. reaction. Perhaps our military does have 100% certainty about the source of the attack. All I’m saying is that war-related claims have no credibility by their very nature. And in this specific case, the truth is irrelevant. What matters is that the allegation of Assad’s guilt opened new strategic options at a reasonable cost, and President Trump jumped on them.
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