Well, Steve, you are the only Racket journalist I’ve read that at least offers some balance, not totally blinded by TDS. The Mick Jagger line … “you can’t always get what you want… but you get what you need” is a great closing. Your comment about Israel “focusing on their own religious extremists” is a bit baffling. Who are they? I see plenty who might be called political extremists by their opponents but I do not see many religious extremists leading Israel. Israel is a secular government and most of its leaders are atheists or agnostics. Huckabee, a non Jewish American, is probably the most zealous religious extremist figure living there. You laid out a good case for optimism and pessimism in the unfolding Iran conflict.
Israel has a large bloc of religious extremists, haredi ultra-orthodox Jews who refuse to serve in the IDF like other Israelis, and believe the biblical mandate for Abraham’s land borders declared by God in the book of Genesis is their mandate to conquer, meaning from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates River. That all the way to Iraq. They believe they will build the Third Temple and then the Messiah will come. They are not open to a Christian view that the Messiah has already come. They can be violent and they wield a lot of political influence in Netanyahu’s government.
Fascinating that the President of Lebanon, by their law, is a Christian. You are correct that southern Lebanon is a problem. Somewhat like Gaza.
I'm optimistic that Iran can be destroyed economically but will the IRGC be able to scrounge enough charity from the Chinese to prevent any peace deals for months or years while the general populace suffers?
The optimist in me says that the number of Americans that die will be less than the Vietnam war; The pessimist in me says that number will likely be higher than the Afghanistan or Iraq war.
Surely the Department of Defense (or War) has been studying this exact scenario for decades, why doesn't his righteousness the ultimate Christian Soldier Secretary Pete Kegstand simply tell us how many good Christian sons (no daughters this time) have to die so that we can win this war again (according to our lord and savoir-meme Trump H. Christ we have won multiple times--current count is 12).
Still up for debate is, if Whiskey Pete will count the deaths of non-Christian or non-male American soldiers as causalities or simply part of the plan "man-up" the military...?
Well, Steve, you are the only Racket journalist I’ve read that at least offers some balance, not totally blinded by TDS. The Mick Jagger line … “you can’t always get what you want… but you get what you need” is a great closing. Your comment about Israel “focusing on their own religious extremists” is a bit baffling. Who are they? I see plenty who might be called political extremists by their opponents but I do not see many religious extremists leading Israel. Israel is a secular government and most of its leaders are atheists or agnostics. Huckabee, a non Jewish American, is probably the most zealous religious extremist figure living there. You laid out a good case for optimism and pessimism in the unfolding Iran conflict.
Israel has a large bloc of religious extremists, haredi ultra-orthodox Jews who refuse to serve in the IDF like other Israelis, and believe the biblical mandate for Abraham’s land borders declared by God in the book of Genesis is their mandate to conquer, meaning from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates River. That all the way to Iraq. They believe they will build the Third Temple and then the Messiah will come. They are not open to a Christian view that the Messiah has already come. They can be violent and they wield a lot of political influence in Netanyahu’s government.
Thank you
The important thing is that a skeptic must avoid becoming a cynic, and a optimist must avoid becoming a blind idealist.
Being a hopeful skeptic is the antidote to both.
Fascinating that the President of Lebanon, by their law, is a Christian. You are correct that southern Lebanon is a problem. Somewhat like Gaza.
I'm optimistic that Iran can be destroyed economically but will the IRGC be able to scrounge enough charity from the Chinese to prevent any peace deals for months or years while the general populace suffers?
The optimist in me says that the number of Americans that die will be less than the Vietnam war; The pessimist in me says that number will likely be higher than the Afghanistan or Iraq war.
Surely the Department of Defense (or War) has been studying this exact scenario for decades, why doesn't his righteousness the ultimate Christian Soldier Secretary Pete Kegstand simply tell us how many good Christian sons (no daughters this time) have to die so that we can win this war again (according to our lord and savoir-meme Trump H. Christ we have won multiple times--current count is 12).
Still up for debate is, if Whiskey Pete will count the deaths of non-Christian or non-male American soldiers as causalities or simply part of the plan "man-up" the military...?