Friends, the United States and Iran are both threatening to unleash "hell" on one another, which, in the case of Iran, seems speculative at best, since they can't even deliver an explosive payload anywhere they aim at. Missile fragments, maybe. Be that as it may, the world thinks Iran is "winning", because the world hates Donald Trump so much that it's rooting for the theocratic loons instead -- and of course the global media tells them that, indeed, the U.S. is sinking ever deeper into a "quagmire". Well, maybe at some point these talking heads, and the mullahs, will wake up and smell the coffee. Alas, it probably won't be today.
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Dr. Waddy from Jack: Of course many of the world's talking heads are talking such hooey because have been ordered to do so. And for many it is "fashionable" to trash America and especially an unaplogetically pro American President. Perhaps the European carpers might want to think of just which Hitler youth graduate they would be subjugated to today were it not for little old us.
ReplyDeleteIn our free country, maybe the only way to shut down the reflexive domestic ingrates is for the public to be motivated to make the same choice we made when we finally smelled the coffee about such as Dan Rather and Phil Donohue , and when far left talk radio fluffed right from its presumptuous start. We laughed them all off the stage! President Trump may yet be seen for the great President he is and when the public is convinced of that his vicious detractors may well be seen for the "insects ,microbes" (Chekov the author)they are.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Well, Artemis II is going well so far . For me the WONDER is still there; Apollo 8 was always my favorite because of that and its a thrill to see a reprise of it. It has some new features too. I'm not sure why, because all the lunar Apollos went around the moon but apparently this is the first time some features on the usually invisible side will be sunlit for their edification. Sure , its our moon but it IS another world. Its only 240, 000 miles away and that is 10 to the infinite factor less than the ninth part of a hair of distances even within our "local"galaxy. And not too long ago they pointed the Hubble to an "empty" part of the cosmos and just happened to sight over 200 galaxies! STILL, in itself, they are in deep space I think; perhaps it would not be so very different in its ambience if they were rounding Pluto (?). Some of the Apollo Command Module Pilots did EVAs outside midway between the moon and Earth. I hope they do it again this time and give us a view of what it looks like to have the sun , earth and moon all suspended within sight. Or to have the heavens almost fantastically visible beneath one's very feet. GLORIOUS!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Reportedly Iran possesses a cache of approx. 60% enriched uranium which might be enrichable to weapons grade in a very short time. Could it be that they have been pursuing a crash program to do that very thing in the time since when our assault became a certainty? What then? I'm confident our commanders have planned for that conceivable possibility.
ReplyDeleteIt has always been customary for Iran's regime to declare apocalyptic condemnation for any entity which in the least offends them.They have in the last month lashed out at most of their neighbors in reckless and somewhat incomprehensible dudgeon. So it might not be beyond them to use a nuke despite even their certain knowledge that they would be crushed for doing so. Perhaps the mullahs anticipate other worldly rewards for themselves for confronting heresy and perpetual retribution for this impudent American President and his already long condemned Jewish accomplices .
Yes, President Trump often verbally shoots from the hip. Perhaps we've never had one so publicly frank. But he is a stone wise ass player who has a visceral understanding of the kind of street level chicanery which has always dominated international politics. And like all players he is good at posturing. Imagine if Churchill had ever sat down with Hitler; he might well have put that thing in his utterly amoral place. Yet, there were many creditable and patriotic Brits who thought he would lead them to catastrophe. His competence was beyond their ken and we may have now a similarly counterintuitive instinctive leader. So when he "crudely" prods the oh so sensitive omniscient 7th century theocrats who so atavistically rule their weary land , well, he may not mean exactly what he says.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: If the mullahs have ANY horse sense they may at some point short of necessarily comprehensively forceful induction into the 21st century , discern that our President has set a pattern of backing up what he says he will do, if necessary. No player worth his salt does less, not all the time at least. Oh he's not perfect, as his detractors both international and their domestic factotums, feign expectation of him. He doesn't always succeed but gee,people like the "smartest woman in the world" disdained him and learned to regret it.
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