Irony is Sitting At the Bar Getting Hammered

I would hope everyone who, like me, has favored a muscular U.S. presence overseas in partnership with friendly nations would be willing to call this sort of hegemonic bullying for what it is: imperialism of precisely the sort that traditional US interventionism does not smack of. pic.twitter.com/FJHCbamoH9

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) January 11, 2020

The "payment" to Iran Trump harps on, was a release of funds frozen after the Iranian government allowed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran to be overrun and occupied.

Now we are threatening to freeze assets of Iraq because they won't let us keep our soldiers there?