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On Tuesday, the ubiquitous "people familiar with the matter" told the Western financial press that I
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Proves this was a well thought out, strategic war.
The US needs to place a target in the Strait of Hormuz to see where the missiles come from. Asking for a volunteer is poor form. A DDG would at least have a chance at defending itself. Remember during the Gulf War when tankers led US Navy ships through the Strait so as to be the first to hit a mine?
“I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person,” he added. “That could happen.”
Or better said “That probably will happen.”
Partly because we no longer have access to the support and wisdom of Ahmed Chalabi to help guide us.
I’m gonna brag here and say that I’m probably one of the few subscribers to this site who has actually met Ahmed Chalabi. It was 1983 in Jordan when he was running (looting) his bank there. He was younger, slimmer, with longer hair than in his 2003 reincarnation. Yes, he did play with a very sharp knife throughout the meeting. Totally nuts.
Thanks for the memory. He did a great job snowing the neo-cons in the second Bush administration. (Funny, if you overlook the American soldiers killed or maimed during the second Gulf War,)
He’s almost up there with my old buddy, Robert Vesco.
The callous incompetence and egregious corruption, like stupidity, knows no bounds.
And Congress and the American people are doing fuck all to stop this lunatic.
Shame. Shame. Shame.
I’m really getting tired of seeing trump’s face over all the media. Why don’t just show the back of his head in the future. We would still all know who it is.
Well, phew! I’m glad everything is just fine! The oil is flowin’, earnings are great! The poors will get stimmies. Wealth gets tax cuts, dereg and pardons. Soon STIRs to 100bps! To the moon!
Only day 3, and the Trump team is already ad-libbing and throwing out half-baked ideas.
To quote Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, “Oh, no, sir – it’s fully baked.”
Trump has shown time and again that he’s willing to embark on a hardly thought about idea at any moment with no idea where it’s going. This is the future as long as he’s in office and it makes gold look shinier and brighter every day.