When stupid people listen to other stupid people, and one of those people is the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, what could go wrong?

For three years Trump has made some of the biggest mistakes in history. For the most part, his decisions have been made without deliberation and the advice of experienced government officials. Tariffs, a huge reduction in the corporate tax rate, denying climate change, adding ignorant relatives to his White House staff, and many more moronic ideas will require decades to repair. The one time he did listen to someone else, he may have planted the seeds for WWIII and the end on mankind.

We learn history so we don’t make the same mistakes over and over again. It is obvious that Trump and Mike Pompeo have never picked up a history book. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in 1914 was the impetus for the beginning of WWI. History may be repeating itself.

Pompeo is the reason Trump made the idiotic decision to assassinate the leader of Iran’s military forces, General Qasem Soleimani. According to sources close to Pompeo, throughout his career he has sought the destruction of Iran, and Soleimani is at the top of his hit list.

Soleimani was the second highest ranking government official; the leader of the Republican Guard and its most potent force, the Quds. This act can be compared to a foreign nation assassinating the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley.

The fact that Trump did not consult the Pentagon, or the leaders of congress, and made his decision based on the desire of one man; one failed Secretary of State; placed Americans all over the world in the greatest danger they have faced since the debacle of the Bush 43 administration.

Trump has proven himself to be the greatest danger not only to the American people, but to world peace. He cannot be allowed to be the reason my America no longer exists.

“We took a bad guy off the battlefield,” Pompeo told CNN on January 5. “We made the right decision.” The same day, Pompeo told ABC that killing Soleimani was important “because this was a fella who was the glue, who was conducting active plotting against the United States of America, putting American lives at risk.”

This is nothing more than another manufactured lie; there is no proof.

“Pompeo provided the warrant for why Soleimani is a bad guy,” the source said. “It’s not personal because he was a terrorist and the mastermind.” The source also said taking out Soleimani had been Pompeo’s mission for a decade.

Remember, this all began with Trump’s poor decision to end the nuclear agreement negotiated by a real Secretary of State, John Kerry, and approved by a real President, Barrack Obama. Although Ronald Reagan’s chief negotiator during the nuclear arms agreements with Russia claimed that the Iran agreement was favorable to the United States, without reading it, Trump ended the efforts of real Americans and real diplomats to end Iran’s efforts to construct and use nuclear weapons. This week Iran announced that it will reinstate its efforts to become a nuclear power.

This is Trump’s America; it’s not mine.

“The Truth Lives Here”

Op-ed by James Turnage

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