Posted on 03/18/2026 8:41:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Week Three is underway. Every goatherd on the planet knows that the way to beat America is simply to outlast her: "We have all the time," as I quoted yesterday. What is the precise point at which a swift surgical strike (which the US can do) becomes a war of attrition (which the US always loses)? Well, you don't want to be typing "Week Twenty-Three is underway..."
Given all the dissent in our comments section, I thought today I would pose a few thought experiments. "I'm just asking questions," as Tucker likes to say:
~First, for the two-points-in-Iowa crowd, is Iran worth losing the midterms over?
~Second, and more apocalyptically, has the Islamic Republic already gone nuclear?
~Third, for you airy warmongers, is this at last an exception to the long-established air-power assumptions?
~Fourth: are we watching Ultimate Trump?
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
And when Trump pills this off I expect Steyn will say it was a good idea all along.
Steyn has been disappointing me for awhile.
Or Up The Junction?
The US has done its part.
Time to bow out and let the nations which need Hormuz oil keep the straight open.
I suspect that the heart attacks and surgeries have taken their toll on his humor and optimism. I still love the guy but I don’t follow as closely as I once did.
Steyn is looking at America’s track record in the Middle East and raising pertinent questions.
Steyn’s points are valid for consideration I suppose as is the salient point that we MUST prevent Iran from developing nukes and destroying the western world.
Life is full of compromises and tradeoffs between short term and long term. What Trump is doing is essential for our long term survival.
The outcome of the mid-terms is important as well. I think the mid-term results will be affected somewhat by how this thing ends. If it ends in a more reasonable Iranian regime, no Iranian nukes and the Strait open then I think this might help our chances in the mid-terms. No way to know just yet.
The American track record.....then Vietnam changed it.....then the Gulf War changed it.....then the Afganistan war lasted 30 years and made Vietnam look like a surgical strike and changed it.....this war will change it.
Yesterday does not mean today because different leader, different criminals in congress, different partisan hacks in the judiviary, different freaks protesting, fifferent lied-to-all-our-lives citizens reading between the lines on alternative media sites now.
Back to the Truth.....stop the fear mongering and spit current realities happening Mark. You sound like Tucker/Schumer trying to make clicks and not solid points.
The warm smoke billowing into my lower orifice is neither pleasing nor appreciated.
We are all Soviets now, disbelieving everything the media tells us except through accident.
“mid-term results will be affected somewhat by how this thing ends”
Mid-Term results will be affected... in order by
1) MAGA types move from spectator to participant in the election campaign and GET OUT THE VOTE.
2) It’s The economy (stupid). The war, tariffs, godzilla might be blamed. Doesn’t matter the cause. The perceived result is what counts.
3) MAGA unity. GA example. It is Burt Jones vs Rick Jackson for governor. If supporters of the lose support the winner of the primary, then the party wins. If there is divisiveness then everybody loses.
4) Each State, Each Congressional District and its voters have diverse issues. What is 3d in one is 10th in another.
That is my take on his article as well.
As always, Steyn takes no prisoners and does not fear looking at events with a jaundiced eye. He makes some excellent points.
The midterms are critical and if the Democrats gain even a slim majority in both houses Trumps impeachment will be priority one. While Impeachment 3.0 will be met with glee in the eastern and western political bubbles, the rest of the country has other concerns including inflation, the hoards of immigrants and energy policy. I think rational Americans will not want the southern borders to again be opened to the unwashed hoards of the third world, the price of gasoline to again go toward $5 or have their taxes increased to pay billions to fraudsters.
Bkmk
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