Timothy Birdnow

Iran has fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, the British-controlled island in the Indian Ocean where a major American base is located.

Neither missile hit anything; one failed in flight and the other was shot down.

What is interesting about this is that Iran had said it did not have any missiles capable of traveling this far. Diego Garcia is 2,480 some-odd miles from Iran, and the Iranians had claimed they had no missiles capable of going beyond 1,242 miles. So they have been lying to hide their military capabilities. This strongly suggests they have also been lying about their nuclear program.

This vindicates President Trump's actions.

BTW it also vindicates Trump pushing Britain into not paying Mauritus to take the island away from them. British P.M. Stammer, er, Stamer wanted to hand Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelego over to Mauritus simply because they told him they wanted it, and given there is a major base at Diego Garcia Trump pressured him into holding onto it. Now it's been one of the places used as a staging ground for strikes on Iran.

Th9ngs all work together and when you start pulling back, retreating, you wind up in a worse and worse position. When you move forward you improve your position. Sun Tzu famously stated that "Opportunities multiply as they are seized" and the corollary to that is they dry up when you do nothing or worse, retreat.

At any rate the lesson we should draw from this is that we need to hold on to what is ours and maybe get a little more, and that we should never, ever trust an Islamist.

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