How do you solve a problem like Iran?

You may have heard that the Iran-backed Houthis have killed some U.S. servicemen. Or, as the idiot White House press secretary puts it, “folks who are military folks.”

My natural inclination is that when some country attacks the United States, we should punch them back so hard that everybody on the planet craps their pants. Proportional response is nonsense. Disproportional response is deterence.

However, a case can be made that this is precisely what the lunatics in Iran want. They believe (so I’ve heard) that some sort of “everybody against the Muslims” war will bring the second coming of whoever.

Deterence only works if the other person is sane.

In addition to all that …

  • I’m sick of the U.S. getting pulled into these stupid wars,
  • we’re not quite as powerful as we used to be,
  • I don’t trust Biden or his generals to manage such a thing,
  • I am suspicious of the people who are calling for a strong action against Iran, and
  • thanks to Obama, Iran might have a nuclear weapon, or something nearly as bad.

So I’m not sure what to think about this, except that I would trust any random person drawn from the phone book to make this decision (after getting briefed, of course) more than I would trust the moron in the White House.

4 thoughts on “How do you solve a problem like Iran?”

  2. QUOTE: Thanks to Obama, Iran might have a nuclear weapon, or something nearly as bad.

    Isn’t it interesting that after Trump withdrew from the “naïve” Obama deal that Iran’s nuclear capability increased. Also, Trump’s administration failed to get a better deal. Under the controversial 2015 agreement, Iran limited its enriched uranium to 202.8 kilograms and maintained that until the Trump administration withdrew from the agreement. International inspectors reported in September 2020 that Iran had increased its enriched uranium supply to 2,105 kilograms.

  3. Actually, may be do something like this:

    1. If Biden responds at all, call him a war monger
    2. If Biden does nothing, call him weak and a do nothing

    A comment about “his generals”. Especially, about the “his”. Yeah, pretty sure Biden got on a phone call one day while Hunter was sunning his schlong in Palm Beach and he said something like, “Hey, Hunter, who do you think would make a good general?” Hunter, gave him his answer, and then Biden appointed generals from amongst Hunter’s buddies and those are “his generals”. Or, maybe… maybe the generals are the same damn guys who were generals when Trump was president…guys with 25-35 years of service and experience who rose up through the ranks to be 2,3,4-star generals and capable of giving reasoned answers.

    Whatever…

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