Timothy Birdnow

Iran has closed the Strait of Homuz again, claiming the U.S. violated the terms of the truce by continuing to interdict Iranian shipping.

Also, Iran complained that Israel was continuing to strike Hezbollah in Lebanon. One of the things they insisted on was that Israel stop going after their proxy army there.

Get that, Pope Leo the Chicken-Hearted? Iran is admitting (well, they never tried to deny it) that Hezbollah is THEIR army by making this part of the deal. And how many Israelis has Hezbollah murdered? How many Americans, for that matter? Yet you and your Vatican stooges insist this isn't a just war because Iran didn't attack anybody!

At any rate this was entirely to be expected; it's how the Iranians negotiate. And they figure time is on their side, if they can hold out long enough idiots in our government will start pushing Trump to quit early. And they may be right.

But time isn't on their side either; they are losing billions of dollars and eventually their economy will collapse completely. I heard Victor Davis Hansen - a man who really knows his stuff about the Middle East - believes they can only hold out about ten day]s with the blockade in place. While there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth from Congress, especially the RINO wing and the dufus Libertarian types like Thomas Massie or Rand Paul, It will take the opposition a long time to get the votes to compel Trump to stop. Mike Johnson isn't going to betray the President on this. And while John Thune would gleefully do so he could well face a filibuster from his own party over it. That would be poetic; the man who refused to end the filibuster or even force a talking filibuster getting burned by his own party with it.

I would say Trump is in the catbird seat. He can now piddle around, make a string of excuses, and watch Iran slip into the seventh century again (maybe that Muhdi fellow will crawl back out of the well he fell down way back when.) Meanwhile the nations that relied so heavily on Iranian oil have made other arrangements and if they have any wisdom at all they will stick to those after the war ends. Check and mate.

I am mindful of the line in Return of the Jedi where Jabba the Hut is about to throw Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Lando Kalrissian,and Chewbacca into the Snarlack pit, to be eaten. Luke says as he is about to be pushed into the pit "you should have made a deal Jabba" and then proceeds to wipe out Jabba's whole gang.

Iran should have made a deal.

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