That barbarian Donald Trump’s war has removed the final veneer of American moral exceptionalism (not that there was a surfeit in the first place), revealing a grotesque Commander-in-Chief who is zero statesman and a dangerously bifurcated case study in schizophrenia.

Trump’s concern for the Iranian people is a performance of the most tedious "forked tongue". With one hand, he offers the damp embrace of a "rescuer"; with the other, he promises a mediaeval destruction that betrays a profound indifference to the 85 million souls he claims to be ushering into the light.

Rhetoric and destruction

The mask did not so much slip as shatter on Sunday, April 5. After months spent posturing as the patron saint of Iranian........

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