The "Anti-Benghazi"

As Trump laughingly called the attack on our embassy in Baghdad today.  The Washington Post reports the following:

"Supporters of Iranian-backed militia end siege of U.S. Embassy in Baghdad...Kataib Hezbollah agreed to end the siege after Iraq’s prime minister guaranteed he would support efforts to pass a law calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops"

They end their siege! Hurray! Of course, it was in return for Iraq demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops, which stands to benefit nobody in the world except for guess who?

Just a hint of whom I'm talking about here, in case you didn't figure it out for yourself.

It's a win-win situation, in the sense of heads, Putin wins, tails, Putin wins.  One more military obstacle to Putin's domination of the Middle East eliminated, without him having to get his fingerprints anywhere near the crime scene, or fire a shot.

And of course, a giant win for this previously virtually unknown group, which forced the mighty United States to back down when Trump's vaunted revitalized military could not even defend a massively fortified embassy from an angry crowd.

I said in a previous post that House Democrats should never let this miserable incident be forgotten for one day between now and the election.  And this is what I am talking about: In light of his past behavior, we cannot but be suspicious of Trump's giving one more present to Vladimir Putin.  This is an unmissable opportunity for House Democrats to completely revisit the issue of Trump's subservience to Putin, bit by bit worming out of the White House the clear evidence that Trump is an open traitor.  And as the weeks go by with Mitch McConnell refusing to allow witnesses or evidence at Trump's trial, new conclusions can be drawn, resulting in revised, and ever wider, articles of impeachment, until, in the end, the public evidence against him more adequately reflects the endless series of crimes and betrayals that is the entire story of his Presidency.