Confusion

Everyone in WOWTMSM agrees that war is bad but as previously mentioned in last weeks article, “bleep” blowing up is good.  It must be as they can’t stop showing it, even if the Talking Heads are wringing their hands and clutching their pearls, over the price of gas at the pump.  

Then there is ‘Boots On The Ground.  Boots on the ground are bad.  No, boots on the ground are good, even necessary.  And for some of us, whenever we hear “boots on the ground” we get this image of just that, boots on the ground.  Some lined up nice and neat and others just strewn about, as if they were just dropped there.  But no one is wearing them.  There are no soldiers anywhere, just boots, boots on the ground, boots on the ground everywhere.  Maybe that’s not a bad thing.  Maybe some people in Iran , need some boots.  Maybe we could just drop some in.

Then there is the “Forever War’.  Not another ‘Forever War’ puhleezzeee!  BTW what is a “Forever War’?  There was the 100 years war back in the 1300’s and 1400’s, between England and France and France and France  That might have seemed like forever but 100 years as long as it was, was not quite forever.  Not even close.  Besides, no one knew they were in the 100 years war.  It got that designation after the fact.  Just as some historians now see WWI and WWII as one war.  But there has never been a forever war, so we don’t think there will be one now.  On the other hand, if there is a forever war, we won’t know, as none of us will be around, when it ends.

Then there is the DJT POTUS 45 & 47 announcing that we are engaging negotiations to end the War with Iran.  But then the IRGC and the Basij militia at first claimed there are no such talks.  Then the IRGC and the Basij guys announce they reject all the proposals made by DJT 45 & 47 POTUS and had a list of their own. So, somebody must have talked to somebody.

It’s all a bit confusing, no?  Well not really.  Try to remember that a nation is made up of a lot more entities than it’s military and government figures.  There are businesses of all kinds, manufacturing of all kinds, institutions of all kinds like agriculture, transportation, health, religious and not just the Mullahs, cultural etcetera, etcetera, just like all societies.  So, it is quite possible that we are negotiating with responsible entities in Iran.  And not just with the IRGC and the boys from Basij.  So both conditions, can be true.

And don’t listen to the Talking Heads too much.  They’re just reading from a teleprompter and they’re not even sure what’s on it half the time.  The other half of the time…  Well your guess is as good as ours.

We hope we have removed some of the confusion.  But we are selves are quite confused, so don’t get your hopes up too high because we could be wrong.  If we are we will admit it, unlike The Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti Of The Known World who will simply run on to their next point of expertise, as quickly as they can.

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