Friends, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is pretty excited about the fact that it was able to set fire to two oil tankers transporting Iraqi oil, but it should think twice, in my humble opinion. First, because the only reason Iraq is striking third parties, like Iraq and the Gulf States, is because its ability to kill Americans and Israelis, and to do serious damage to our militaries and infrastructure, is basically nil. It's striking the only targets available to it, therefore. The other reason why Iran should be careful what it wishes for, when it launches these scattershot attacks, is that, while the Western media may celebrate every time an Iranian missile finds its target, because our brave journalists hate Trump a whole lot more than any Ayatollah, the Iraqis, and the Qataris, and the Kuwaitis, and the Saudis feel rather differently. They're the ones with missiles raining down on their heads! The Iranians are doing a pretty fine job, therefore, of justifying our "aggression" against them. What's more, as long as they keep firing missiles and drones, they oblige us to continue our efforts to suppress them, meaning no rest for the mullahs! Ergo, I would advise the Iranian hardliners to enjoy the little fires they manage to light out in the Gulf, because they will be dwarfed by the massive conflagrations that we unleash in their backyard. Take that!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I'm reminded of Hitler's insane insistence on the use of "vengeance weapons " when it was clear , perhaps even to that depraved mind, that German defeat was guaranteed . The V-1 and V-2 missiles did grievous damage but could not save Germany .
ReplyDeleteI'm confident that our military, the necessary coercive arm of our just nation in a world in which almost unimaginably harrowing evil remains intended, will keep the Straits of Hormuz open. The Iranian regime , which has always embraced the use of amoral physical force to advance its wishes, now finds itself disempowered by force itself. It probably can do no more than flail in indecisive , emotional infliction of its unlimited hate for most of the world on any available target as it embarks on its certain progress to deserved oblivion. The spinelessness of the civilized countries except for Israel which the Iranian regime assumed was inherent in their heresy, has been gainsaid by an American President with steely backbone who recognizes the redeeming military and moral value of alliance with Israel.The regime's presumptuously neo medieval intolerance cannot survive such well meant opposition.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: With instant communication and coast to coast travel in a few hours available to almost all in our country, it may in some way have fostered in us an abbreviated sense of perceived time and timing. And it has made many of us, even some of good will and common sense, impatient to see the end of this war. The cynical "American" far left encourages this anxiety as part of its all out effort to work American dissemblance and consequent defeat. Iran knows that our America hating radicals are doing this and it gives them heart.
ReplyDeleteOur forces and those of Israel have made much progress toward achieving our mutual goal of finally disempowering radical Islam , its fount in Iran and its neomedieval onslaught on civilization. "American" far left defeatists ironically call for perfection from the very military they loathe and for which they wish no good. It is of course the same counterintuitive attitude they demonstrate against law enforcement and in their disgraceful support for the "rights" of vicious criminals.
Rising oil prices are of course troubling but so many in this country so blessedly free of war's direct destruction must yet summon the resolve to accede to the reality that this war is highly just and vital and that risk and setback are always encountered in armed conflict. We are two weeks in and we retain almost unscathed overwhelming power to press our advantage to success. We must disdain and disempower those organized and MSM supported reflexive , amoral and profoundly unAmerican strivers for our humiliation , military waste and consequent decisive political damage to our President, AND the death of Israel.
". . . in their disgraceful support for the 'rights' of vicious criminals and their dismissal of the rights of the lawful ." Jack
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I'm reading a history of the occupation of Japan 1945-52. It describes the concurrent development among Japanese intellectuals which celebrated comprehensive reflexive iconoclasm and nihilism in reaction to the fierce regimentation and insupportable confidence which led Japan to war with the U.S.
ReplyDeleteIn some ways it reminds me of the comprehensively , mindlessly, reflexively and counterintuitively anti all things American mien, consistently demonstrated in the hate filled disdain which the "American" far left now characteristically directs toward our effort to eradicate the aggressively destructive power of radical Islam in its very lair, Iran. An "American" MSM long since grievously disgraced by its unprofessional animus toward any use of American power is one of its definitive shills. But that far left's motivation is not anywhere near equal to the existentially shocking experience of life in post war Japan. Oh no, our oh so sensitive touchy feelies turned against our country because they believed their commie profs on their austere college playgrounds who slyly told them that their very country is unbearably "icky". And the advent of a common sense , happily unapologetic , patriotic American leader, on the very evening in Nov. 2016 when they fully expected to shatter the glass at the Javits Center (perhaps literally)to celebrate the enthronement of their darling champion Hillary, was just more than their fragile , hard bought peace and prosperity lulled psyches could endure! Their vindictive and juvenile response? "To hell with America until it gives us our due: elite totalitarian rule on principles inimical to those which that hated regime claims as its redeeming qualities!"
There are people who , with good will, express plausible misgivings about our war against Iranian radical Islam. But their concerns are often cynically misrepresented as common cause by the "by any means necessary"far left (eg. in polls and in relentless negative commentary on such as MSNBC).
Dr. Waddy from Jack: President Trump has made an intriguing and maybe even slyly ironic "suggestion". That is that the countries which depend on Iranian oil help us to keep the Straits of Hormuz open. Apparently he mentioned Japan and China in this thought.
ReplyDeleteI wonder: is our wheeler dealer President trying to put China on the horns of a dilemma? China has cultivated Iran, intending it as a vital link in what at least one well qualified observer thinks is China's establishment of a new Silk Road of commerce and power with the Middle East and Africa,
largely free of naval interdiction.
I don't know how much oil China gets from Iran or if overland transportation of it is yet possible. What irony though is in a suggestion of military cooperation between China and the U.S. or in a sardonic hint to China that they might have to get some (or more) oil even from us! President Trump and Xi will be meeting soon. And the Japanese Navy operating further west than they ever went in WWII is a remarkable concept. It might not be welcome in some ports along the way. China might well be alarmed by its presence along their routes of seaborne intercourse with East Africa.
President Trump has already wisely "suggested" that our Nato allies bear a fair share of the burden. Perhaps he is following the same reasoning with countries which import Iranian oil and which might otherwise just leave the job to us.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So now Iran is mad at Ukraine for assisting some of the blaspheming apostate Middle East countries who are as heretic as to resent the incursion of Iranian missiles and drones . Understandably Ukraine has much hard earned experience with drone technology; and is willing to share it; it is reported that Israel may seek their advice.
ReplyDeleteIran has been extremely aggressive in promoting pariah status for Israel to the world and in requiring Israel to endure unrelenting castigation and "garrison state" status. Accordingly, there is much justice in the reality of ever increasing siege and the mundane recompense that bullies deserve, in which the Iranian regime finds itself now.
Iran's medieval style rulers have been unapologetic champions for the perpetuation of the age old abomination of Jew hatred. How ironic it is that their eccentric and rogue defilement of the much revered Islamic faith is drawing upon them this time , richly deserved, widespread condemnation. The "end of history" may not be nigh but civilization nevertheless DOES progress, albeit in terribly painful fits and starts.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The "American" far left dreads the possible downfall of the America hating radical "Islamist" Iranian regime. That neomedieval theocracy has had a lot of "Benjamins" (right "Rep". Omar?) to throw around from its wealth of oil and some of it just may have ended up enabling "American" campus Jew haters recently, yes? Well, Jews are as "flies in the summer shambles" (the medieval livestock slaughter yard) to Iran's atavistic potentates. So: why not support kindred souls murderously parasitic to the "Great Satan" itself? And of course , being "American" with ehh, typically expansive financial "needs" they will need a whole LOT of support!
ReplyDeleteAgain, the bizarre united front between unlimited hate imbued radical Islam and the equal opportunity antipathetic "American" far left is plausibly documented. If the Iranian regime falls , we may see in the U.S. a precipitate drop in obviously and expensively well organized America hating far left unlawfully and presumptuously violent demonstration and sedition. After all, those far left worker ants have to be paid and those storefront "community organizers" , having lost at least some of their tax payer funding under a common sense Administration, must have their protection money!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: In reading a Wall Street Journal article titled Trump's Energy Triumph, by Kimberly Strassel, in RealClearPolitics for 3/16, I am reminded of the Arab oil embargo of '74. We almost had to do feudal homage to an atavistic potentate in order to stave off rationing. I mean the kind we had in WWII, which my father dreaded because of the cheating he saw during that time. Every time the name OPEC headed up the news we shuddered.
ReplyDeleteThe author maintains that the Biden administration nearly returned us to that shameful vulnerability with its disingenuous devotion to the yet scientifically unaccredited "human generated global warming " mirage. Actually their impassioned throttling of the most dynamic energy industry in the world was a power grab meant to garner them lots of keen new sources of incipiently totalitarian government power.
The author says we have DJT to thank for making those the bad old days as we have achieved a perhaps unprecedented (even for us) proficiency in energy and fuel production. I won't go into the details she used to support this happy perception but in sum she describes the Trumpian horse sense and guts which brought it about and describes the perhaps decisive political and strategic advantages we enjoy because of it.
The absurd gas prices Californians are constrained to pay are the fault of their unreformed climate change charlatan Governor. If he runs for President the contrast between his imperious devotion to this now widely perceived crack brained fable and the Trump Administration's common sense redemption of our country to "environmental" sanity would be starkly telling.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Why is Iran attacking oil producing facilities in the Persian Gulf? Due to our President's release of our superlative energy industry from the suffocating embrace of far left regulators empowered by feckless Biden, they probably cannot do us much damage. We are their heretic opponents ,yes? They remind me of Germany in early 1945, blindly and futiley flailing about in murderous Hitlerian insanity.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: It is reported that "Rep." Crockett's body guard had an extensive criminal record. What then was a national lawmaker doing in employing a reputed lawbreaker in such a proximate role?! No doubt she has access to sensitive information. Was he privy to it? Perhaps due to such apparently reckless judgement she should be denied such access. And what kind of responsible legislator could one so restricted be? It is fortunate (in a sense) that Texas rejected her play for the Senate; perhaps it should consider returning her to private life in November.
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree with you that Iran is "flailing" but its pathetic attempts at retaliation are unfortunately amplified by a compliant global media whose sympathies are all too obvious.
ReplyDeleteJack, the, as you say, "reflexive" disdain for America and American power on the Left is not, in fact, as consistent as all that. The flexing of American muscle doesn't bother them a bit when it's done by one of their own. And that naturally is true of almost all leftist "ethics": they are situational to a fault!
Jack, I find Trump's request for NATO and Japanese assistance in reopening the Strait ironic, since a week ago he was contemptuous of any such notion. Nonetheless, his request is reasonable...just as our allies' refusal was inevitable. As I just posted, their hunger for oil is not yet acute enough to overwhelm their scruples.
Jack, it's not my area of expertise, but I think the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses may have been funded more by our putative allies in the Gulf (or elements therein) than by Iran.