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)

I challenge that. If invaders are where they shouldn't be, doing stuff they shouldn't be doing, that is a context for the bad stuff the other lot are doing, it doesn't justify it but t… (View Post)

Well, yes. But if Israel hadn't done the invasion thing, Hezbollah wouldn't have needed to hide behind ambulances. Carelessly killing Lebanese civilians is also a war crime and Israel is do… (View Post)