. The context was an electorate not giving Democrats time of day and a consummate campaigner in Donald Trump who has won against every single challenger Republican and Democrat, except Biden (hence t… (View Post)

The Democrats can do better. Harris has had her run at it. She should have been president instead of Trump. I don't even think she did badly in the campaign, which was a lot closer than people t… (View Post)

Oderint dum metuant. They certainly hate Iran but do they fear it? In which case they will deal with Iran. I suspect the GCC will split. Iraq and Oman are reasonably friendly. Bahrain is a Sunni I th… (View Post)

Those are two different things. Harris would have been a better president than the other one by at least four orders of magnitude. (View Post)

In theory yes, but I'm not sure what our common ground with Israel is at the moment. They are acting comprehensively against our interests, and pretty much of everyone else, maybe even of themse… (View Post)