Aside from the morality, this is not a great outlook

 

Also...Wag the Dog in the age of AI is so much easier.

UPDATE 03:25 pm:

The authorized-departure message from Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel and a supporter of the war, said employees should try to leave “TODAY.”

[...]

The State Department has come under intense criticism for not urging the many thousands of American citizens in the region to leave before the start of the war — the Trump administration and Israel had been planning secretly to conduct military strikes for many weeks — and for providing limited help to evacuate them once the missiles began flying.

  NYT

Trump claimed there just wasn't time because it all happened so fast. If his lips are moving, he's lying.

On March 2, after the war began, the State Department issued a mandatory ordered departure for nonessential employees at missions in Iraq, Jordan and Bahrain.

Just a reminder: Mike Huckabee is a Christian nationalist evangelical. I assume that's why he was given the post. Perhaps the worst person possible for it.