Most directly, Paul Mirengoff gives an awful lot of pixels over to admitting that the hard right critics (the “stay in your lane” wing) are mostly right about how this is going — and how it is going to go: badly for all GOP-ers, MAGA or not.
The cynicism, though of deciding the merits of an unfolding war of choice, based primarily on how it will help mid-terms chances (or not so much)… is disgusting to me. But whatever.
They are right: this is a bad idea. [And I might add: putting US troops on the ground in Iran will look a lot like the 20 years of death [in the 1980s] the old Soviets endured — for their troops — in Afghanistan. In the end, they tucked tail, and ran — after losing a guerrilla war. And probably 26,000 soldiers. That’s about half-a-Vietnam, BTW.]
But Paul still manages to lick the boots of Dear Leader in the process — so as not to lose his radical MAGA readership.
Hinderaker, in turn, yesterday already is writing of how the ultimate goals may well never be acheieved — but it is always good fun to unleash sidewinder missiles on brown people — just to watch sh!t burn, on the other side of the world.
He is sentient enough to mention that troops on the ground in Tehran will lead only to an endlessly lethal quagmire for the US. [One for which Bibi is obviously more than happy to grind up an endless stream of US kids up into, all for his visions of an Israeli super-power — in the region.]
Damn.
He’s a… lost soul.
But he is right — this won’t end well for the USA.
Out.
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