Tragedy

That is what is to be expected when powers go it alone.

I would think Iraq was enough. 

Did the Republicans say tax cuts? 

I think they call it mission creep.

Iran has some of the most sophisticated USA military technology that exists.

This isn’t the only time Iran has retrieved drone technology. A top of the line drone was shot down while running surveillance out of Afghanistan. Where do you think Russian drones originated from? Who is assisting Russia with its Ukraine assaults?

The only reason Iran isn’t more successful with Israel already is because of sanctions on it and on Russia. 

War? Attempting to bomb Iran into oblivion when the global community already has protested the killing in Gaza? What makes anyone think Iran is going to be alone when it’s allies like Russia, China, and North Korea want nothing more than end NATO.

Trump is lining up the USA military to engage Iran as an ally of Israel, does Trump assume Iran’s allies are sitting on their hands? The truth is they are waiting to spring a much larger trap.

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Why. does Israel assume it can’t be destroyed?

Iran is not Gaza.

There is no doubt Iran has been enriching uranium beyond that of any peaceful use. That came out at the UN Security Council meeting. The IAEA has been diligently following Iran’s progression. Why does Israel believe bombing is going to yield the desired outcome?

Attempting to bomb Iran’s nuclear tendencies into oblivion will result in only one thing; Iran’s determination to have nuclear military capacity. War will not bring Iran from the breech, it will force the country into nuclear military capacity. With war raging there is absolutely no reason to stop the progression forward into nuclear armament. 

The strategy Trump is proposing with Israel is based in ego and not military capacity. The foolishness being proposed as if it was at all possible will not result in a failed state in Iran, but, Israel could be destroyed. The land mass of the two countries alone dictates a far different outcome than what is being envisioned. Israel cannot sustain major assaults on its land for any reasonable period.

Netanyahu sees this as an opportunity to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Iran is a sovereign power with capacity beyond what Israel estimates. How many scientists did Israel kill? Yet, the enrichment went forward. Israel forgets the Iran that was before the fall of the Shah. Those people and their intellectual culture still persists. The Iranian protesters are more successful than Israel will ever be.

There is no doubt Iran’s nuclear capacity has to be stopped. But, war? Bombing? The global community needs to take a hard line against such a strategy before it is too late.

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It’s gotten to be a little ridiculous.

Trump’s big push to violate the USA Constitution is that no one is safe. In this case the country is not safe from Harvard’s admission standards in recruiting and accepting foreign students. There is no basis of truth to it.

The judge has allowed the greatest deference to Trump in hearing the reason for such bizarre executive orders and decisions. Harvard has stood steadfast and allowed democracy to work its powers through the court. Trump has been allowed Due Process.

Look.

The USA is a strong democracy. While elements of society and politics would see a coupe to allow a king to control the structure of law enforcement to certain outcomes, it isn’t going to happen. The laws of the USA bend toward freedom. Why would anyone ever believe Harvard was a national security threat?

The students that demonstrated on college campuses were looking for recognition no different than any other person(s) in our history. Those that remember the illegal wars of Vietnam and Iraq remember the demonstrations that would eventually end the corruption that fed them. This isn’t any different. 

Students who saw injustice in Gaza wanted it ended. You mean to tell me Harvard or Columbia or any other University didn’t have control of their campuses so that nuclear secrets would end up in the hands of Hamas? If any of that danger were to end up with Hamas check Iran and not Harvard.

So, in distilling all this down Trump’s bizarre executive orders were racism. The students had rights. They were on USA soil and they exerted those rights. I am proud to say. 

I realize the demonstrators that were to benefit Palestine were considered anti-semitic. No one dismissed those concerns either. But, at the end of the day freedom won and the USA and their magnificent universities are still standing. A little battered and bruised, but, very much still standing.

Hopefully, now the universities will recover from an onslaught of hate and racism. 

Jeeze!

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Governor Gavin Newsome is doing a great job.

Anyone who believes in democracy and freedom knew it would take a great deal of patience to turn this ship around and right it again. The misdirection of the United States of America happened over time. It won’t take long to return to a benevolent circumstance for all, but, it does take a great deal of patience and steadfast insight.

Governor Newsome is one of those men who presides over an enormous state. California is a big chuck of the west coast of the United States. Anyone who has been governor of that incredibly free state would have experienced the USA in a way no other had unless perhaps the president of the country. It is prophetic and somewhat welcome for Trump to pick as his first victim, California.

It is a relief to realize California has been able to secure the proper attention of the judiciary in the request for briefs to be filed in this head to head battle of freedom versus authoritarianism. I know many governors in this country are up to the challenge, but, Governor Newsome has a state that demands freedom in the way Trump most wants to oppress it including a very dynamic economy that rivals most of the world’s economies. 

Judges in the USA mostly have a practice free of oppression. They don’t anticipate hatred, anger, corruption, or authoritarianism to win the day. The USA has developed over centuries and next year it will be two and a half centuries old. Many like to call the governance of the USA an experiment, but, 250 years of practicing democratic principles with the outcomes we have witnessed in our lifetime is not really an experiment at all. It is an odds on favorite the USA has already been there and done that in any judicial decision.

I believe judges all along the path from local to Supreme Court have to get a clear picture of bad intent for this democracy before they will call it. No judge that I have read yet dating back to the January 6th insurrection has acted against the democracy. They yield to allow freedom of legal expression in their courts of law, but, ultimately they are interested in upholding justice and not pretense.

In requesting briefs to be submitted in California it is a way to bring to focus the law, its application, and some great legal argument that will result in clarity.

The problem with Trump’s application of the law is corruption. Republicans play a game of “word meaning” in their politics. In the case of the USA Constitution there is more than wordy definition entering the decisions of justice. Justice is dynamic and not just a word. 

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…the Council must speak with one voice…

There are casualties and destroyed or damaged infrastructure including Israel’s largest hospital.

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