Here we are, punters, back at Dallas HQ for Easter Monday and it's not bad. Birds sing, the sun shines and all's well in this small urban haven, a far cry from the race track chaos of the 'sprawl. In fact, it's more peaceful than the Country Compound because there's no roosters here. Don't get me wrong, roosters play their part and add a kind of problem farm authenticity to the scene, but they're mighty loud. Maybe not as loud as shrieking peacocks, but still.
In other news, you may have followed the pretty remarkable rescue of one of our downed pilots, all kinds of hyper specops action, and some say more than that. They think the raid was a play to get at the mullahs' uranium, and maybe they have a point. But what do I know? Nothing. Why? Because SECWAR Hegseth hasn't been returning my calls. C'mon, Pete, pick up the 'phone.
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Speaking of Persia, 47's been blowing up the airwaves with all kinds of mad bomber incendiarism, "Praise be to Allah!" and dropping an F Bomb on the Straits of Hormuz, It'll be a "GUSHER," and on. What do you make of this? Serious question.
My take, for what little it's worth because SECWAR's apparently blocked me, is something like this: Team Trump hoped for a quick fix. Bold call, didn't get it. So pump up the volume and the bombs and the threats until the other side gets it and walks away before a JDAM hits their bedroom.
Quite the message. But oh dear, Team Mullah refuses to bend the knee, with their blend of zero sum perverse martyr Islamic sensibility. Next step, 47 gets really loud in the probably doomed expectation that IRGC gets that memo, Viz. if you don't step away from the country we're going to utterly destroy you.
As you know, gentlemen and gentlewomen, the US is more than capable of carrying out the threat of destroying Iran as a functional country. 47, it seems, would prefer we didn't but isn't afraid to go Godzilla all-in if that's what it takes. That's the message, as I see it, Pete might agree, I don't know, he isn't answering calls, perhaps he's busy.
Personally, I'd love it if the Islamo-Marxists who run Persia were taken down, whether we do it remains to be seen. Whatever the case, it's one heckuvva gamble, not least with people's lives, and I hate that. Granted, wars must be fought given our fallen imperfection, but we, as Christians, are about life not death. We build, they destroy. Let's pray the US is on the right side of this Eastertide equation.
Forgive the ramble and feel free to comment on the sit. In other words, what's your take? Over to you.
Cano Arma Virumque,
LSP
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Had a neighbor in downtown Houston, maybe 40 years ago. Kept chickens long before it was a thing.
Had maybe a dozen hens. And one rooster.
He explained that happy hens laid more eggs. The rooster was just usually too tuckered out to crow.
Had a backup plan. At the first sign of the beginning of s crow, he had a magic word.
"DUMPLINGS"
True story. I have witnesses!
How do you negotiate with fanatics? They believe Paradise awaits martyrs. IMO, the only way out is for the people to rise up and kill the fanatics. Hard to do when the fanatics have all the guns.
What happens when they run out of virgins for the martyrs?
Pete's not taking my calls either so it must be serious.
But it's really probably NatSec and we don't have SKIFs at home.
At least I don't.
I'm curious what's going on and I'm thinking the Mullahs are too and that's the point.
I'm thinking their demonic handlers won't let them quit.
How do you negotiate with fanatics? Do it the President Donald J. Trump Way!!!
Which is, whack the most fanatic fanatics. Keep whacking the increasingly-less fanatic fanatics until only somewhat fanatic fanatics are left and then start talking seriously to them. Kill enough of the overly-fanatic fanatics that the fanatic is literally blasted out of them.
Once the hardliners, easily identified by the smoking holes, are gone, once the radical weird-beards and slobbering nut-jobs have become one with the universe, then the only ones left of the fanatic-class are the ones so unfanatically fanatic that they'd been sidelined by the fanatics and so they are able to listen to a tad bit of common sense.
It's not the mullahs of Iran that will be (or were) the problem, it's the individual crazies that will need to be dealt with.
God is moving in the Earth
LSP - Therein lies the conundrum. Religious fanaticism does not negotiate away their beliefs, they will happily die (and take their entire population with them) convinced they are going to win while being destroyed.
The IRGC is the actual power that keeps the population in line and are nothing more than paid mercenaries so long as they perceive there is control above. If there is no control from above, it becomes the standard model of might makes right and some Col or General will become the new dictator. Therefore, the only way to "win" this and benefit the Persians is to eliminate the entire Mullahocracy AND the entire top echelon of the guard. The latter is the more difficult task as they are provincial based, 33 provinces I think.
Going to be "interesting" to say the least but I think the end result will not be pleasant for the general population either way and it is a fool's errand to think our military can root them out on the ground without major casualties.
A miracle might occur where the top cleric actually gains a measure of sanity but I am not betting on it.
I suppose it's unpopular to mention that Israel and American ATTACKED Iran first twice in just a few months DURING diplomatic talks. OH, and Killed their leadership while crying in "pain" that NOBODY would TALK to US so we will bomb you even harder you "Religious Fanatics".
The rest of the world Noticed and thus Trumps asking for "a little HELP" was ignored.
Theres no angels on either side.
I love that story, JC!
WSF, let's not forget that these fanatics are less fanatic than our, ahem, allies in Saudi who guard the sacred meteorite. Curious that the Gulf monarchies don't really have armies. Maybe we should just go full colonial.
Seemed to work with the NSDAP, Beans. and the Japs, and etc. Do we have the will to go all in? As of today, no.
LL, I think the virgins are like djinn, effectively inexhaustible until exorcised.
Been dealing with the SKIF issue here too, Ed.
Seems the Mullahs are emboldened today. I'd call that an error.
How many of them are here and living in our midst, Anon?
Most definitely, Bear Claw.
Terrapod, with that in mind, we might just go for the "destroy the country for several centuries" solution. I hope not.
M, part of me thinks we should go all in and simply take them over, take the oil and effectively ban Islam. We'd have done exactly that 100 or so years ago and kinda did. Another part of me realizes this might be problematic.
LSP personally I think maybe we should BAN Islam from AMERICA First.
How many Mosques are in Texas now?
NYC of 911 infamy is under a Marxist-Muslim MAYOR, and the butt lifters are doing prayers in the Streets now.
And our fraud pirates the Somali's are Muslim.
Our own country seems a tad swamped with them.
Then maybe we might ponder fighting a nation know just like Afghanistan as the "Graveyard of Empires".
As you're a Pastor what do you think about this?
Ezekiel 38:5 notes “Persia, Cush, and Put will accompany them,” referring to a confederation of nations in an end-times context. Many interpreters see this as indicating that Persia (modern Iran) joins a coalition set against Israel in a climactic battle.
The men inspired by God to write our Bible didn't know of China nor Russia but put them and Persia aka Iran in the Battle of Armageddon.
I've not had a Pastor ever show me where America is in that final battle.
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