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Iran: Honest questions without answers and why I remain optimistic anyway
To hear detractors tell it, we are badly losing a miscalculated enterprise from the start, facing incredibly limited options with no plan to speak of. Needless to say, supporters disagree and the truth is likely in between. As the world reels from a now unprecedented spike in oil prices (March was the largest single month…
Reminder: The media and the experts always predict disaster when Trump is involved
In his second term alone, there have been panicked freakouts about his plans to trim the size of government, tariffs, other taxes, military strikes, and more. While this time might be different, I wouldn’t bet against the President. While I have no special ability to foresee the future and am well aware that past results…
While much of the world is kicking and screaming, Trump is almost singlehandedly dragging us into the future
It certainly isn’t pretty at times, but beyond death and taxes, there have been two certainties throughout my life, the Middle East was a strange and scary place from which terrorists launched attacks and communism was a creeping, insidious threat. Trump is finally addressing them both. At the risk of dating myself, I was born…
Iran: A crucial lesson from Lord of the Rings
Given the choice between pursuing wholesale regime change or making a deal that can be improved in the future, I’d take my chances with the deal and hope that like Sauron in Lord of the Rings, Iran’s evil can be diminished such that it will never rise again even if it can’t be destroyed. “For…
Iran: As Trump switches into deal making mode, did everyone forget that we’ve been at war for more than three weeks?
Last week, they claimed killing any enemy’s leadership only prolongs a war. On Monday, they claimed the President lied about engaging in talks with Iran. On Tuesday, they insisted we should not have talks at all, pretending Iran is the same now as it was before the war. On Monday, President Donald Trump announced that…
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Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 