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…
Yes, the President decides what constitutes a threat, there can be no other way under our system of government
While the media reacted with shock and dismay at Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s claim that only the President can decide what is an imminent threat, the truth is so clear, even PolitiFact got this one right. Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Congress that the President was ultimately in charge…
The Trump Armada
The sight, however symbolic, of the Arab Nations joining traditional European, North American, and Asian allies along with their long term adversary Israel in a joint mission would be something no one has ever seen before, perhaps as important as Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet was way back in 1907. Last week, the media was…
No, killing your enemy’s leadership isn’t a sure fire way to lose a war whatever the experts claim
The legendary General George S. Patton once quipped, “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country,” but the experts have suddenly decided otherwise based on at least two false assumptions. On Tuesday, Israel reported that…
Hamnet, Hamlet, and the infinite nature of a poem unlimited
Confining the Oscar-winning film to a story of grief undervalues a far more wide ranging work that can be said to include the totality of the human experience in around 4,000 lines, but does so in a way both powerful and accessible. Hamnet, the Oscar-winning film, inspired by real events in the life of William…
Whether Iran’s new Supreme Leader is dead or alive, injured or healthy, in Iran or Russia, is perhaps the most important unanswered question of the war so far
President George W. Bush galvanized the country by throwing out the first pitch at the World Series in 2001. Contrary to the stunning lack of curiosity among the experts and the mainstream media, the visibility of a country’s leaders matter, especially in a time of war. On October 30, 2001, President George W. Bush galvanized…
Iran: One thing is clear, we better hope we’re never in a war with a real global power because half the country would surrender in a week
From the Revolutionary War to World War II, setbacks have been a reality, but perhaps never before has the United States dominated so objectively compared to the naysaying of detractors who are content to repeat Iranian propaganda and prefer to praise the Iranian regime. George Washington has the dubious distinction of having lost more battles…
Iran: Call it regime change, unconditional surrender, or whatever you like so long as whoever’s in charge at the end agrees to a few key things
While we do not yet know what sort of government will emerge in Iran, the President is adopting a policy much closer to the success of World War II’s unconditional surrender than the failure of the Iraq War’s regime change. Last week, President Donald Trump demanded nothing less than unconditional surrender from Iran to end…
Trump is running the “Domino Theory” in reverse
During the Cold War, the theory held that one country falling to communism led to another, but today Trump is toppling states allied with China and Russia in an inverted incarnation. In the aftermath of World War II, the world was roughly divided into two spheres of influence. Countries either lived under the protective umbrella…
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Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 