U.S. And International Politics

[Lance Payette]

Putins ideal outcome would be a USA with open borders, woke ideology and a kooky leftist socialist like Kamala Harris without a clue about economics. She would allow the Iranian regime to resume seeking nuclear enrichment and they would soon have nuclear warheads. . She would seek to cut aid to Israel and weaken the strong Israel / USA alliance, thereby emboldening radical Islamist terrorists. She would implement the socialist redistribution scheme based on DEI.

4 years of a Democrat socialists controlled Congress and a Kamala Harris President would the death of the USA for certain.

Sure, Kamala is a flat-out dingbat. In a country of 330 million people, it's astounding the non-quality of the candidates we keep coming up with for high offices. Kamala? AOC? And the fact that tens of millions of people think these are viable candidates is frightening.

Of course, this is true at all levels. I have served in federal, state, county and municipal government, and the elected officials were consistently "not exactly" the cream of the crop.

It appears the natives are getting restless: Now that Armed Services Committee Chairman Wicker has criticized Trump for waffling around on Iran, the comments on FOX, which are usually nothing short of worshipful toward Trump, are almost entirely in the vein of "I'm sick of this! Finish the damn job!"

[John Corbett]

Sure, Kamala is a flat-out dingbat. In a country of 330 million people, it's astounding the non-quality of the candidates we keep coming up with for high offices. Kamala? AOC? And the fact that tens of millions of people think these are viable candidates is frightening.

Of course, this is true at all levels. I have served in federal, state, county and municipal government, and the elected officials were consistently "not exactly" the cream of the crop.

It appears the natives are getting restless: Now that Armed Services Committee Chairman Wicker has criticized Trump for waffling around on Iran, the comments on FOX, which are usually nothing short of worshipful toward Trump, are almost entirely in the vein of "I'm sick of this! Finish the damn job!"

I'm getting impatient too but if Trump wants to give peace a chance with one more round of diplomacy, I can't fault him for that. I think he knows there is just so much we can do without putting boots on the ground and he is understandably reluctant to do that. But this is war and to accomplish our objectives, we may have to put our  own troops in harm's way. I think they would be the first ones to tell you that. That's what they signed up for. During the lull, we have rearmed to a far greater degree than Iran has been able to do because we destroyed most of their war making machine. I would bet we have a better intelligence on where the hardliners live and work and where to send the smart bombs through their bedroom windows. We should try to kill as many of them as possible with the first wave and take out what few missile launchers they have left. I don't pretend to be a military analyst but I have a hard time figuring out why we can't take out the sites that threaten the Strait of Hormuz. If they still won't submit, by which I mean grease up and bend over submit, then we take the gloves off and start taking away key parts of their country. How hard would it be to takeover Kharg Island....PERMANENTLY as the spoils of war. Then takeover the region where their nuclear dust is buried and draw their ground troops out in the open so we can annihilate them. I would bet their ground troops would be no braver than the Iraq troops that started surrendering in mass during the first Iraq war. I'd also like to see Iran Balkanized and broken up into ethnic regions so that they are never a power again in the Middle East.

[Tom Graves]

Putins ideal outcome would be a USA with open borders, woke ideology and a kooky leftist socialist like Kamala Harris without a clue about economics. She would allow the Iranian regime to resume seeking nuclear enrichment and they would soon have nuclear warheads. . She would seek to cut aid to Israel and weaken the strong Israel / USA alliance, thereby emboldening radical Islamist terrorists. She would implement the socialist redistribution scheme based on DEI.

4 years of a Democrat socialists controlled Congress and a Kamala Harris President would the death of the USA for certain.

Dear Freon,

The KGB* works both sides of the political spectrum.

That's why it (and the GRU, and Putin's professional St. Petersburg trolls, and oodles and gobs of zombified "useful idiots," et al.) installed The Traitorous Orange Turd as our "President" on 20 January 2017.

*Today's SVR and FSB

-- Tom