Alan Zweibel

The same argument was used against those who were opposed to the Iraq War. And of course it was used against those who opposed the Vietnam War too.

The restaurant owner concluded that the customer was Israeli based on the Hebrew in his phone not on his conduct. Some Christian tourists are also very ugly with their behavior. Would you justify throwing out Christian customers?

So you have a problem it with the civil rights act of 1963 in America? The act that prohibited businesses from denying service to customers based on their race?

Is that how it works. The roughly 200000 members of the revolutionary guards will fall to pieces without Khameini and a few others? This isn't the Lord of the Rings. Khameini isn't Sauron. Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the Trump administration raises the specter of an extended military campaign that officials say has “only just begun.” The findings, confirmed to The Washington Post by three people familiar with the report’s contents, raise doubts about President Donald Trump’s declared plan to “clean out” Iran’s leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing. The report, completed about a week before the United States and Israel initiated the war on Feb. 28, outlined succession scenarios stemming from either a narrowly tailored campaign against Iran’s leaders or a broader assault against its leadership and government institutions, the people familiar with its findings said. https://archive.ph/0esug#selection-383.0-421.320

If the Trump administration was sincere about stopping an evil regime they would actually have a plan to occupy and administer Iran. More likely what's going on is that Israel realizes it's rapidly losing support from Americans and wants the US to pummel Iran as badly as it can. Another member of aseannow made a similar comment about the "silence of the progressives" and I produced quotes from articles featured on the NY Times, The Guardian, and Amnesty International to show that it was BS. It doesn't seem likely that you even read or listen to progressive sources since you clearly haven't a clue.

What is the relevance of the time of day?

The idea that only China would care about the loss of Iranian oil doesn't make sense. Are you living in an alternate reality? This article was published on Mar 2. Do you understand that since then the "doom & gloom" is actually now a reality? That Iran has virtually closed the Strait of Hormuz.

I went to that website. Here's their latest closeup of the strait of Hormuz: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.1/centery:26.0/zoom:8 Looks like almost nothing is going through.

Just a quibble but shis is false or at best misleading: "1 barrel oil = only about 80 plastic cups" Most of the petroleum in a barrel of oil goes to produce energy. On average only a small amount goes to make plastic cups. That's the basis of the claim.

The one quibble I have about this article is calling it a High-Risk strategy. As far as I can tell, that's its only viable strategy. Unless you want to call surrender a strategy.

No, what I'm saying is that anybody who believes that the destruction of the Iranian Navy would prevent the closing of the Strait of Hormuz doesn't understand the significance of the word "Strait".

Tehran’s leaders crafted a plan ahead of the current conflict that would escalate the fight across the region, and let the military keep battling even if its top commanders fell Iran had for two years responded to foreign attacks with limited counterpunches directed at its attacker. Instead, under the new strategy, Tehran would escalate conflict across the region, especially hitting Arab Gulf states and hampering the global economy in hopes of dampening President Trump’s willingness to prolong the conflict and coming back for a future one. That plan includes implementing its so-called mosaic defense, a decentralized approach that allows individual commanders the autonomy to keep up the fight if cut off from their superiors. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-defense-strategy-khamenei-fe9aeaf9 According to this article, Iran had advised its neighbors of its new strategy. But, apparently, the US believed otherwise.

If there was such a thing as drones and missiles, your point wouldn't make sense.

https://www.google.com/search?q=oil+price+brent+crude&oq=oil+price+brent+crude&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDg2MTNqMGo3qAIIsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

"Kurdish and Shia groups inside Iraq were encouraged to rise up against Saddam but were left exposed when US forces stopped short of intervening directly. Both uprisings were violently crushed by Iraqi forces." Just to be clear, it was George. H.W. Bush who encouraged them. And he was roundly condemned for it once it became clear that he would do nothing to support these Iraqis.

Chemical and biological warfare are the poor man's nuclear weapons.

Again, just as in the case of Iraq, opposition to waging a war is taken to mean support for an evil regime.

So Israel wasn't helping Qatar funnel funds into Gaza?

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s and threatening the global economy In the weeks before the latest attacks, a certain degree of complacency had taken hold in global oil markets. Gulf oil producers were reassured by U.S. officials that retaliatory attacks on their soil, if they were to happen, would likely be limited to U.S. bases, according to Arab Gulf officials. Iran wouldn’t go after their energy infrastructure or attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz, they were told. After all, the chokepoint had remained open during last June’s Israeli-U.S. 12-day bombing of Iran. https://archive.ph/OVvaQ#selection-2163.0-2163.158 https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/persian-gulf-oil-squeeze-d9a39190?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1 This is bizarre. As even I noted elsewhere, and I'm far from alone in this, that if Iran was faced with an existential threat, it would make sense to go after oil and gas production of its neighbors.. And now that Trump has made it absolutely clear that nothing less than unconditional surrender will do, continuing with this strategy is their only hope. According to the article you'll see that even if Iran were to surrender today, there will still be long term consequences. Once shut down, oil fields and LNG liquefaction plants can't start producing immediately, It can take weeks to get them going. And oil fields can suffer permanent damage once they're shut in. So their flow will be less on resumption. And it isn't just oil and gas that's affected. Much of the world's fertilizer is also manufactured in this region. So world agriculture will take a hit as well.

He forgot to attach "narcoterrorist pedophile" to "Marxist jihadist axis". And maybe he should have thrown in "antifa", too.

Characterizing a statement is not a personal attack. Now, if I were to say that your command of English is questionable, that would be a personal attack. But I would never say that.

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate On his first day back in office, Trump rescinded an executive order signed by President Joe Biden that required his appointees to comply with an ethics pledge. The pledge barred them from working on issues related to their former lobbying topics or clients for two years. Weeks later, Trump fired 17 inspectors general charged with investigating fraud, corruption and conflicts of interest across the federal government. Around the same time, he removed the head of the Office of Government Ethics, the agency that oversees ethics compliance throughout the executive branch. The office is currently without a head or a chief of staff. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-financial-disclosures-steve-feinberg

I got news for you: under the Constitution, treaties are the supreme law of the land. So if the UN authorizes it, it's not an act of war.

Cluelessness combined with pointlessness

Wisconsin DATCP has named the six top candidates who will compete for the title of 79th Alice in Dairyland. Over the next two months, they will undergo rigorous media and public relations training, culminating in the Alice in Dairyland Finals in May. Two of the candidates are from southeast Wisconsin: Anastasia Poull of Port Washington and Michelle Stangler of Watertown. https://www.fox6now.com/news/79th-alice-dairyland-top-candidates-announced