Marjorie Taylor Greene Doesn't Want to Have a Serious Conversation About Iran or Anything Else

While I certainly have plenty of misgivings about the Trump Administration's aims and objectives about taking military action in Iran, there is a danger of those who have similar reservations in elevating conspiracy theorists and their conspiracies because their views appear to align with their own. 

To be specific, I refer to an editorial in The Bulwark co-written by Andrew Egger and Benjamin Parker titled "Who's in Charge Around Here?" focusing on Secretary of State Marco Rubio's gaffe that the U.S entered the war because Israel decided to attack Iran first. Egger and Parker straddle into Pat Buchanan territory:

One of the only true consistencies of Trump’s foreign policy—besides tariffs—has been his Putin-like insistence on being treated with what he considers the appropriate deference and respect internationally. He’s made it very clear to our allies, like Canada and Denmark, as well as smaller countries like Venezuela, that America is a major country that can do whatever it wants to minor countries. (He treats China and Russia as members of the same great-powers club.) The one exception appears to be Israel, which, despite not being a treaty ally of the United States and being one of the smallest countries on the planet, can nonetheless—at least in the telling of the administration—drag our globe-striding superpower into war.

Their Buchananite tone continued:

Of course, the administration’s telling is wrong. The United States isn’t bound by Israel’s foreign policy any more than it is by France’s or Australia’s. And while suggesting it was all Israel’s idea may make it a bit easier to argue that America was facing an imminent threat under any circumstances, the White House may be opening themselves up by saying so to a barrage of attacks from the anti-Israel parts of its own base.

“We need to have a serious conversation about what the fuck is happening to this country,” former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said yesterday, “and who in the hell are these decisions being made for, and who is making these decisions.”

Since when has Marjorie Taylor Greene ever wanted to have a serious conversation?

Greene simply wishes to vilify Israel and Jews at large. After all, Greene claimed the U.S. and Israel had bombed a school killing over 100 girls. The problem with Greene's claims is that it was made by Iranian state media which she evidently accepts as the gospel truth. 

It isn't to say that school children weren't killed but it cannot be independently verified by whom and there remains a question of how far the school may have been situated from an Iranian military base. But if Greene is telling us to accept Tehran talking points at face value, then she has zero interest in a serious conversation.

Let us remember that Greene has palled around with white supremacists like Nick Fuentes, employed his colleagues, suggested Israel was responsible for JFK's assassination and Charlie Kirk's as well, voted present on resolutions condemning anti-Semitic violence against Jews in D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado later complaining that condemning anti-Semitism is something "forced on Congress."

If Egger, Parker and other Bulwark staff honestly believe Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to have a serious conversation then that tells me that they too are embracing conspiracy theorists and their theories. Alas, anti-Semitism is the world's oldest conspiracy theory. 

In their sincere effort to discredit President Trump and Trumpism, The Bulwark is prepared to amplify anyone who now sees fit to criticize him even if the aims and objectives they espouse are every bit as irrational and nonsensical as those offered by Trump and MAGA.

Simply put, it is impossible to have a serious conversation if you simply exchange one set of stupid and foolish ideas for another set of stupid and foolish ideas.