If low-key but very opinionated Sen. Mike Lee has a snit on television, we have an event worth pondering, especially when musing over an event possibly leading to war and death of American soldiers.
If Lee says the closed Senate briefing by White House officials was inadequate and vague and insulting, treating senators like “good little boys and girls,” a White House “cover-up” is suggested.
The assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the second most popular Iranian, a star in the sovereign state of Iran, reeks. Do not forget that assassination differs from killing rogue militants like the Taliban or Hezbollah militias.
As astrophysicist Neal deGrasse Tyson instructs us about faulty reasoning: “Claims of a ‘cover-up’ or ‘conspiracy’ is the battle cry of people who want to believe, in the face of insufficient data (facts) to fully support their claims. This is called ‘argument from ignorance,’ a common fallacy.”
An ongoing mark of the Trump administration — and Trump himself — is arguing from ignorance, or through lies or half-truths. Our current leader has power and is the worst of the worst demagogue in my long lifetime and perhaps in America’s history.
Go for it, Mike Lee!
Richard H. Keller, Salt Lake City