Do you remember Tariq Aziz, the foreign minister of Iraq during the last days of the Gulf War? He was standing in a Baghdad building angrily trying to convince the television audience that the United States was on the verge of losing the war, and Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard was standing victorious . . all the while, in the background, you could see the US troops marching into Baghdad behind him.
It was an unnerving time, but you had to chuckle at how leaders of a third-world country could so deceive themselves of the reality of the situation. Perhaps, the truth slips away so slowly under a dictator, that you no longer can recognize the truth. Perhaps, it all becomes one.
Perhaps 250,000 deaths are like no deaths. Perhaps, you get the coronavirus by watching the sun’s corona.
Regardless, several things are clear. Within minutes he was in military custody. And, I am sure that he was even claiming that the infidels had been cast out while he sat in his jail cell.
Such is the fate of followers of, and syncophants to, dictators.
Are you listening Lindsay, Mitch, Marco, Mark, et. al.
And, by the way, Mitch, perhaps a cell is a safer place to be . . .