I was just reminding someone of 1976 and the tall ships and how much fun it was in Boston and NYC where I experienced it. We were, for that moment, optimistic.
“Trump… is once again learning the same lesson in the dumbest possible way” The problem is he never seems to learn anything! What should be a lesson is deflected with blame.
Strategy or stra-te-gery as Mr. Bush once called it, seems to be the one thing Trump’s war is looking for. Elusive. So some history, the Cuban Missile Crisis. One outcome perhaps not well known is JFK agreed to remove the Jupiter nuclear tipped missiles from Turkey. Positioning, as in Cuba, was unacceptable to the Soviets (Russia). Today, the common point again, Iran is on the southern flank of Russia. If a western friendly Ukraine is an issue, imagine a US in Iran presence. It is no great strategic leap to connect the dots. Russia will most certainly back Iran. It’s a major national interest. It is also something Trump in his bromance with Putin discounted or simply failed to grasp. Real strategy would have better defined the potential alliances as well the retaliatory domain.
I fear escalation is the proximity of our Country’s inchoate aims. Our national aim more mimics the parable of monkey whose paw in the gourd will not release the fruit allowing its capture. Today, Trump noted we should have the Straits of Hormuz sorted out by the end of the year. Wow. The traders are saying two more weeks and recession is nearly assured.
We are fighting a tactical, not a strategic war. Sun Tzu and Clausewitz must be spinning in their graves.
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides together could not have written a tragedy built on such idiocy and vainglory. Not only does this war endanger all of the economic, treasury, and blood issues you outlined but also threatens to erupt the Sunni-Shia conflict and control of Mecca.
Trump has stepped into a deep snake pit leaving for rest of America the sacrifice, pain, and suffering. This mess has the potential to turn extremely ugly.
You mean uglier. It is already ugly but maybe we are seeing it from a televised point of view and not from a mom's eyes in Tehran holding her children against the bombing strikes.
We have been so protected, 9/11 notwithstanding, from the terror that our bombs and guns have caused to civilian populations around the world for so long. When was the last war fought that meant something for our country? I would argue WWII.
No doubt there are bone whispers around Donald - no experts, just "feel it in my bones" - Trump telling him bunker busting nukes are just little nukes that go real deep into the targeted infrastructure and don't hurt anyone outside. I have little confidence he'll resist the temptation to use them in Iran.
Trump won’t learn anything, but how to manipulate/blame the system better .
I do so hope the lesson now beginning to surface ‘spotting these wolves’ before they’re entrenched ‘catches on’. I hear some schools are teaching how to spot propaganda..bravo!
Leaders with years of sketchy promises should NEVER be trusted nor braggarts.
Vetting has to include the person’s track record as after the fact tells patterns well.
Felons should not hold office..and here I thought that already a rule which should include if you break it you pay for it…sorta like accountability? Geez, me thinking again!
I’ve always approved of giving the tantrum only a corner, the bad behavior a consequence, and keeping discipline consistent. Structures have to have solid foundation, it’s the same for animals, people, laws and love…mixed messages is where ‘ok for me but not for thee ‘ started .
The talk can lie but the walk tells the real story, no cartwheels necessary and no flip flop slop.
I’m definitely underscoring this Fourth of July to be simple, support your own state’s gifts of nature, make it a neighborhood homespun delight, we have much to be grateful for right in our own backyards.
MG: "Negotiation means a press release stapled to an airstrike." It is turns of phrases such as these that keep me coming back every morning. Just terrific!
I marched in the D.C. Bicentennial parade in 1976 very proud to be an American.
This year, I would be embarrassed to even hold a sparkler.
I was just reminding someone of 1976 and the tall ships and how much fun it was in Boston and NYC where I experienced it. We were, for that moment, optimistic.
“Trump… is once again learning the same lesson in the dumbest possible way” The problem is he never seems to learn anything! What should be a lesson is deflected with blame.
Strategy or stra-te-gery as Mr. Bush once called it, seems to be the one thing Trump’s war is looking for. Elusive. So some history, the Cuban Missile Crisis. One outcome perhaps not well known is JFK agreed to remove the Jupiter nuclear tipped missiles from Turkey. Positioning, as in Cuba, was unacceptable to the Soviets (Russia). Today, the common point again, Iran is on the southern flank of Russia. If a western friendly Ukraine is an issue, imagine a US in Iran presence. It is no great strategic leap to connect the dots. Russia will most certainly back Iran. It’s a major national interest. It is also something Trump in his bromance with Putin discounted or simply failed to grasp. Real strategy would have better defined the potential alliances as well the retaliatory domain.
I fear escalation is the proximity of our Country’s inchoate aims. Our national aim more mimics the parable of monkey whose paw in the gourd will not release the fruit allowing its capture. Today, Trump noted we should have the Straits of Hormuz sorted out by the end of the year. Wow. The traders are saying two more weeks and recession is nearly assured.
We are fighting a tactical, not a strategic war. Sun Tzu and Clausewitz must be spinning in their graves.
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides together could not have written a tragedy built on such idiocy and vainglory. Not only does this war endanger all of the economic, treasury, and blood issues you outlined but also threatens to erupt the Sunni-Shia conflict and control of Mecca.
Trump has stepped into a deep snake pit leaving for rest of America the sacrifice, pain, and suffering. This mess has the potential to turn extremely ugly.
You mean uglier. It is already ugly but maybe we are seeing it from a televised point of view and not from a mom's eyes in Tehran holding her children against the bombing strikes.
We have been so protected, 9/11 notwithstanding, from the terror that our bombs and guns have caused to civilian populations around the world for so long. When was the last war fought that meant something for our country? I would argue WWII.
We have seen the enemy and it is us.
Agree!!
No doubt there are bone whispers around Donald - no experts, just "feel it in my bones" - Trump telling him bunker busting nukes are just little nukes that go real deep into the targeted infrastructure and don't hurt anyone outside. I have little confidence he'll resist the temptation to use them in Iran.
I have complete confidence that Dr. Strangleove Pete Hogsbreath is itching to use every bomb in our arsenal, just to see how cool they are.
Yes! And insist it is “the hand of god” guiding his every action!!
Trump won’t learn anything, but how to manipulate/blame the system better .
I do so hope the lesson now beginning to surface ‘spotting these wolves’ before they’re entrenched ‘catches on’. I hear some schools are teaching how to spot propaganda..bravo!
Leaders with years of sketchy promises should NEVER be trusted nor braggarts.
Vetting has to include the person’s track record as after the fact tells patterns well.
Felons should not hold office..and here I thought that already a rule which should include if you break it you pay for it…sorta like accountability? Geez, me thinking again!
I’ve always approved of giving the tantrum only a corner, the bad behavior a consequence, and keeping discipline consistent. Structures have to have solid foundation, it’s the same for animals, people, laws and love…mixed messages is where ‘ok for me but not for thee ‘ started .
The talk can lie but the walk tells the real story, no cartwheels necessary and no flip flop slop.
I’m definitely underscoring this Fourth of July to be simple, support your own state’s gifts of nature, make it a neighborhood homespun delight, we have much to be grateful for right in our own backyards.
MG: "Negotiation means a press release stapled to an airstrike." It is turns of phrases such as these that keep me coming back every morning. Just terrific!