No Scholar is He**

Hot Air reports that Secretary of State (soon to be the next senator from the great state of Kansas*) Mike Popmeo says they assassinated Soleimani to stop an imminent attack. Could be. Reader(s) don't suppose Pompeo would lie about it, Obama style, do they? Did he blame the embassy attack on a video?

Speaking of....

We have gathered the twitter musings of Ben Rhodes, failed foreign policy advisor to the failed Obama Administration. Behold:

-The Iran Deal successfully rolled back Iran’s nuclear program and averted a war. Trump’s decision to pull out has led to Iran resuming its nuclear program and started this dangerous cycle of escalation that we are still on.
-Does anyone think Donald Trump is equipped to handle a complex, enduring, international crisis that could play out in many countries and demand expertise, rigorous process, and judicious decision-making?
-The stated goal of Trump's policy was to rollback Iran's nuclear program and regional provocations. Both have accelerated since he left the Iran Deal, and are likely to accelerate further.
-Trump has clearly been reluctant to strike inside Iran. Serious question as to whether he realized this would have the same impact, and what consequences it could bring.
-Serious contradiction that the justification for the strike was stopping attacks on US personnel, and the strike itself raises the risk of attacks. We need a clear explanation of the objectives and strategy.
-What is the strategy? We have no explanation about what happens now and what we are trying to achieve in a very serious international crisis.

Rhodes goes on and on. We are impressed by his undaunted lack of self-awareness.

Rhodes'  went to grad school to get an MFA in creative writing. We don't care that a non-specialist was advising on foreign policy, we care that he went to grad school for an MFA in writing when he could have been writing. Not smart, as a certain highly successful president with a habit of knocking off terrorist masterminds might say. 

This clip is as amazing as it is revealing. Rhodes has no words. His brain seemingly enters a loop were he is unable to 'process' what has happened and keeps tying to reboot, only to be confronted with reality over and over again. Three and a half years ago this blog told you people Trump would win. This blog was right. Rhodes simply couldn't imagine that Hillary! would lose.

And he thinks anyone should listen to him?

*You can tell he's running because he's lost weight.
**See what I did there?