New Yorker begin every conversation with “Let me tell you something.” This “something” is about everything and comes at you in a staccato-like word after word onslaught, never leaving an opening to voice an opinion or look for an excuse to leave.
This leaves those with little to say that “Everyone’s an expert.” While most of what is said, is either repetition from others or combination of thoughts with little connection, it’s not the words that matter as much as the tone and the volume, not to mention the hand gestures and body language.
The idea of being for or against a proposition is easily discerned, but any resolution, if reached, lacks any idea of economics following strict rules.
As most things revolve around money spent, money turns to taxes, to employment, to inflation or recession, to unemployment and politics, making conversations hot and heavy.
Of course there is more, but any one of the above leads to conversations and arguments that never end. An when all is said and done, every answer to every condition always begins with “Why can’t they just…”
This solving phrase is well known and continues to be used despite most answers being outside consideration or unworthy of comment. Most things are much harder than they look. We see that when amateurs believe that a few drinks will make them a good dancer or a good singer.
The idea of removing the police, or the Senate or the SCOTUS from the government is accepted only when the mental acuity is at its lowest and emotions are at the highest. Thinking things through is rarely done and despite life giving lessons on how important thinking about what could go wrong being more important than what could go right, we charge ahead and live by another aphorism “Wadda you worried about?”
Complexity, that convoluted condition where one thing overlaps another, making identification of each difficult, is what separates the successful from those who continually struggle. When local conflicts become national or part of foreign policy all manner of overlapping interests, the complexity, rises as the number of interests increases and the costs of prosecution… taking the beginning to the end is considered.
Trump is being questioned about his reason for not ending the war with Iran. For the record it was not a “war” in the sense where we invaded a country, but a bombing campaign used to end a nuclear program. The idea of a peace treaty was to get a permanent end to the program and not just a peace treaty. Iran, to its detriment, decided to forgo any idea of ending its nuclear ambition and that is, above all, the sticking point in the “war’s resolution.”
Any idea of forcing Iran to come to its senses requires boots on the ground and that is the main reason that Trump has decided to go another route.
Having seen what drones strikes on the infantry soldier can do, Trump did not want to be called the “Butcher” of Tehran. He knows any loss of life would be seen as a negative, especially when he refused Ukraine help at the beginning of his 2nd term.
Trump prefers to starve the Iranians into submission or get them into the street to fight for their country. We cannot arm them. If we did, we will be considered the initiators of their death. We need to make the Iranian citizens more like those in the German concentration camps.
We will not do anything else but starve the country of funding it needs to pay its bills. No money, no food, no imports and worse, those sick and unable to work will suffer. No one said that taking back a country would be easy. As they allowed the country to be taken from them so easily, getting it back will be a lesson for generations of Iranians.
Trump controls who comes and goes through Hormuz. Oil once put on tankers is being sent by pipeline to the Red Sea to be shipped to Europe, something that will benefit the Persian Gulf countries. Iraq will reopen its pipeline and as they reap the funds, will become more stable. Iran has lost the war and its political hegemony in the area.
While Trump is willing to wait, the naysayers, the more “knowing” are making comments and now complain life is “unaffordable.” Wages always chase prices and prices chase wages. For some life is unaffordable and that will not change.
by Dr. Richard Pitz, Senior Blog Contributor and Podcast Commentator.
