Op-Ed: TACO strikes again — ‘Get your own oil’ followed by ‘US will exit in 2-3 weeks’


By Paul Wallis
EDITOR AT LARGE

DIGITAL JOURNAL

March 31, 2026


Asian labourers working in the United Arab Emirates have been caufght up in the Middle East war triggered by the US-Israeli assault on Iran - Copyright AFP Karim SAHIB

You have to wonder how much ego-fodder is involved in this situation. All of a sudden, King Donald the Pointless doesn’t want to play war anymore.

I ran out of scatology for this meaningless, nauseating, useless anti-President during the first “administration”.

So, with due apologies to the English language:

The behavioral pattern is the same again: get into a situation he doesn’t begin to understand, spend billions, put a lot of people at risk, screw up the global economy, and run away. This may be without reopening Hormuz or achieving anything at all. As usual, the problem remains after he’s gone.

Just about everybody on Earth was wondering what the point of the Iran war could possibly be from day one.

US rapid deployment ground forces were on their way to Hormuz yesterday.

Threats to destroy desalination plants were the news yesterday.

Now it’s all over?

No party bags?

Broadway not interested?

No smiling happy snaps with those dead Iranian schoolgirls who’d otherwise be alive right now?

No merch?

Apparently. The “Get your own oil” line came out of the mystic PR sewer that has replaced formal US government announcements a couple of hours ago.

Real governments don’t do business on social media.

Neither does anyone else.

Antagonizing allies is pretty much normal while telling them to open Hormuz themselves. Nobody cares. Relations will get back to something like normal after this obscene idiocy departs. The GOP’s global credibility may now be worth much less than an empty KFC bucket, but they’re going extinct anyway.

Nobody will ever forget or forgive this barrage of BS. Crossing one line may be overlooked. Not crossing all of the lines at the same time.

Militarily, absolutely nothing has been achieved, except maybe forcing Iran to drastically update its military museum. The strikes mainly destroyed most of Iran’s non-combat-viable, non-deployable garage sale of a military inventory. A modernized, rearmed Iran could be a much more serious threat.

Happy now?

The really exciting bit is that there are two more years of idiocy to come.

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