April 28, 2026
"Bugger Off!" and Keep Bombing
Timothy Birdnow
Iran offers to open the Strait of Hormuz but not pledge to stop enriching uranium.
I've read many in the Administration want to take this deal and then work on the nuke thing later. That is stupid beyond words. Make this deal now and we lose all leverage over the Iranians. We need to keep the screws tightening. Give them a chance to regroup and they will find ways around any renewed attacks from us.
It is axiomatic in war you don't let the pressure off when you have the enemy defeated. During the Revolutionary War the British cornered Washington's Continental Army several times and failed to finish him off, allowing him to slip away and fight again. In the end Washington won and Britain lost that war.
The Strait is small peanuts to us; this war was started to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons and allowing them to retain their uranium and the right to enrich would mean our defeat. Don't think the Iranians won't crow about that too. All of our Arab allies will start cutting deals with Iran because we will have been shown to be cowards.
Trump should tell them to bugger off and resume bombing.
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History is full of warriors whose advice was to back off when a certain objective was achieved, or though to be achieved. And history is also full of warriors who refused to do so. The names of those in the second group are well known. Those in the first, not so much.
I'm thinking of Alexander The Great, being advised in a situation (which escapes me at the moment) by his general Parmenion to "stop; you've gone far enough. I'd stop here, were I Alexander." Alexander turned to him and said "I would too, were I Parmenion."
Trump, an Alexander if we have one in these times, is surrounded by Parmenions.
I'm thinking of Alexander The Great, being advised in a situation (which escapes me at the moment) by his general Parmenion to "stop; you've gone far enough. I'd stop here, were I Alexander." Alexander turned to him and said "I would too, were I Parmenion."
Trump, an Alexander if we have one in these times, is surrounded by Parmenions.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 28, 2026 08:45 PM (Hlrcd)
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Good example Dana.
Just going a little more modern we can look at the first Gulf War where Bush backed off and we wound up with a second Gulf War under his son. All the money we squandered on that, and all the lives, never would have been lost had Old Man Bush finished the job.
It is foolish to fight a war half way; you wind up fighting it all over again.
Just going a little more modern we can look at the first Gulf War where Bush backed off and we wound up with a second Gulf War under his son. All the money we squandered on that, and all the lives, never would have been lost had Old Man Bush finished the job.
It is foolish to fight a war half way; you wind up fighting it all over again.
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