Gorilla Option

A world poll from Pew indicates that 70 percent of respondents lack confidence in U.S. leadership "to do the right thing regarding world affairs".

Which makes sense given Seymour Hersh's investigation of the U.S.April bombing of a Syrian air base in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons. Von Clownstick ignored the lack of evidence in making the decision to bomb. Hersh quotes his anonymous source:

“The Salafists and jihadists got everything they wanted out of their hyped-up Syrian nerve gas ploy,” the senior adviser to the U.S. intelligence community told me, referring to the flare up of tensions between Syria, Russia and America. “The issue is, what if there’s another false flag sarin attack credited to hated Syria? [Von Clownstick] has upped the ante and painted himself into a corner with his decision to bomb. And do not think these guys are not planning the next faked attack. [Von Clownstick] will have no choice but to bomb again, and harder. He’s incapable of saying he made a mistake.”

Update (June 29):  Ken Klippenstein interviews Hersh who makes a good point on our political situation:

The Democrats may be playing with fire on all of these investigations because unless they really think they have something… I don’t see anything but getting sympathy for [von Clownstick]. The Democrats aren’t attacking specific ideas, they’re just wallowing and trying to talk about what the Russians did, they stole the elections, and you know, the cover-up—which they’re not going to prove, I don’t think. I don’t see any reason to be optimistic about it. So they may end up giving this guy another run, he may hold the Congress and he may be reelected, unless they start talking about real issues—you know, jobs. He’s not delivering, but they don’t talk about [that]. They only talk about, did he cover up something that nobody’s clear on what. It’s not clear what he was covering up—Russian mob money? I don’t know. Nobody’s quite made a case to me.

Update (June 30):  Jonathan Cook is troubled by mainstream media's lack of interest in Hersh's story.

Meanwhile, we seem to experience a daily revelation of embarrassments that are merely par for the course for our psychotic Dear Leader.

This pattern of distraction is classically [von Clownstickian] behavior, fully in line with his decades-long behavior of calling up journalists under a fake name to spread amusing or even occasionally embarrassing stories as a means of getting his name in the headlines.

The sheer incompetence makes him dangerous. I expect the advent of a real crisis to provide the cover needed to push him aside in favor of some measure of sanity.

Update (July 4):  Or not.

Update (July 7):  More from Jonathan Cook about Hersh's critics.