Of all the wars I’ve covered in my writing career, this one has been the hardest in the sense that figuring out what’s true and what isn’t is difficult. The baseline assumption is that nothing the US says about the war can be trusted. Most of what Iran says in concrete terms about what they […]
Second Iranian War
I saw an article today by the American Conservatives, who tend to be more sensible than most conservatives. It posits that peace can’t be made with Iran till Trump gets tough with Israel, because it’s Israel who keeps escalating. This is true, but it avoids the pedo-elephant in the room. It is almost certain that […]
You may remember when Iraq said “Americans must remove all troops from Iraq” and the US said “who cares what you think?” Well, right now the Iraq resistance is removing all American troops from Iraq. They can’t defend their bases and even had to beg for a truce to remove troops. But the real problem […]