Posted on 03/25/2026 4:26:46 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Most Americans probably don’t look back at March 2012 — if they remember it at all — and think of terrifyingly high gas prices. In the month when “The Hunger Games” ruled the box office and President Barack Obama was on his way to a comfortable re-election, the price of Brent crude closed the month around $123 a barrel. That would be about $175 a barrel in today’s dollars.
As of Tuesday, despite Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and its attacks on its neighbors’ energy facilities, it’s hovering around $100, slightly higher than the average inflation-adjusted price since January 2001, roughly $95.
That ought to provide some perspective on the panic over the war in the Middle East. To hear the critics’ version of events, an unprovoked and unnecessary attack on Iran, launched at Israel’s behest, is already a foreign-policy fiasco that has put the global economy at risk without any clear objective or endgame. As Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, told NBC’s Kristen Welker over the weekend, “We’ve never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country’s history.”
Really? Let’s take a tour of some of the recent history.
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“poor/weak leadership.”
??
The strikes at the nuke sites last year and this action were both listed as limited in scope and objective. The voters support that. They need to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Trump-Hegseth, etal have not communicated well what and when the end will be. They sound like LBJ-Westmoreland-WhizKids in 1968. They might actually have a good plan and don’t want to advertise it to Iran. But the bad communication to us can only last for a short time before Republican Congress critters have to consider their own interests.
Actually l think the war is going pretty darn well azzholes
I thought it was going swimmingly
...but I’m not a communist useful idiot.
Oh gawd, Bret Stephens?
Wikipedia:
“Donald Trump
During the 2016 United States presidential election campaign, Stephens became part of the Stop Trump movement, regularly writing articles for The Wall Street Journal opposing Donald Trump’s candidacy,[2] and becoming “one of Trump’s most outspoken conservative critics”.[1] Stephens has compared Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.[18] After Trump was elected, Stephens continued to oppose him: in February 2017, Stephens gave the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, and used the platform to denounce Trump’s attacks on the media.[75] His opposition to Trump continued after he moved to the Times. For instance, in 2018 he argued that by the same logic Republicans used to justify the impeachment of Bill Clinton, they should impeach Trump.[76]”
Funny how the media doesn't even mention that now.
Well, that’s a comfort. Everybody knows that a successful war makes you guaranteed to win the next election, just ask Winston Churchill, just asked GHW Bush. At least when we get completely annihilated in the midterms because he’s ignored America, we will have the comfort of looking back on this war.
“Actually l think the war is going pretty darn well”
Of course it is.
This guy - EnderWiggin1970 - is NOT going to explain his negative comment.
Do people not want to compare our leadership to Molly? Austin?
Obama? Biden?
Just like under Biden when gas prices were super high, the commie media said “Eh, nothing to worry about, we just need to send more billions to Ukraine”
*** Trump-Hegseth, etal have not communicated well what and when the end will be.***
You mean, you want Trump to tell us everything he plans to do, so our enemies can take advantage of us?
We aren’t at War, at least in the legal sense.
I’m 70 years old. I don’t remember any year
in which we weren’t engaged in some sort
of conflict.
I spent over 5 years in the military.
Quite frankly we Americans are pretty good
at war be it “Hot” or “Cold”.
No modern country is so practiced at war
as we are.
Only 6% or so of our population
have ever even been the military.
So 94% percent of our population is a
free people due to the efforts
of a very few.
Why are we, the American people, treated like the enemy?
It's not hard. My point is that despite the unquestionable military superiority held by Western militaries, they routinely lose wars. I would say the US hasn't effectively "won" a significant military conflict since the invasion of Panama in 1989, which was basically an oversized SWAT raid. Why? Not because their military is defeated on the battlefield, but because the leadership is unwilling to employ strategies that will crush the will of the enemy to resist, and instead lets itself be crushed by what should be comparitively minor considerations. Western countries suffer 1 casualty and count it a higher cost than traditional cultures consider the loss of 1000 casualties, and so forth.
Why is Trump begging for negotiations and promising peace soon, while a seemingly obliterated Iranian government mocks him with proposals that are completely out of line with the battlefield losses? We are right on track for a reprisal of the usual pattern of Westerners winning battles and then choosing to lose the war rather than fight to victory.
If you don’t understand the element of surprise in wartime, then I can’t help you. Loose lips sink ships, remember? I want us to win this, and if that means I don’t know everything that’s going on, I’m totally fine with it.
Don’t know what happened, you used to be worth listening to. Now you seem to have contracted terminal TDS. I hope you don’t suffer long before you succumb to this unfortunate affliction.
Washington focuses on the latter and then caves sooner or later, handing victory to enemies.>>. And you have the CIA which already has proven that they would kill Trump rather than look at him. And he can’t be listening to anything they say. My take is Trump can’t win because he can not prove that he has disabled the nukes without boots on the ground and i don’t think that is going to happen.
NYT deploying arrogant headlines assuming to know what I think.
So 94% percent of our population is a
free people due to the efforts
of a very few.>>. And i thank you for your service. i did not serve. my bro and dad did. Bro took a big hit in nam. But i think Trump has a problem in that he can’t prove that he has eliminated the Iran nukes without boots on the ground. And i think it’s a real stinker. And our CIA would rather kill him than look at him. He has a tough row to hoe.
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