From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

This week, America began its 250th birthday celebrations a little earlyuPresident Trump celebrated with bald eagles, motorcycles, and a
UFC fight on the South Lawn. It was kinda awesome. The Left held a
resistance concert where Robert De Niro compared loving America to
loving an abusive spouse and Bette Midler sang about fascism. It was
sad.

There's a reason why 90% of Republicans told NBC this week that they
are proud to be American, but only 29% of Democrats said the same.

Meanwhile, the Obamas celebrated America flanked by Democratic
glitterati, recalling the good ol' days and lecturing about unity in
front of a presidential library that looks like an actual trash bin.
Mamdani cosplayed as a Knicks fan at the championship parade, but at
least he told the truth when he unironically quoted a twentieth-century Marxist to describe his vision for America in 2028.

The big story, of course, was the Iran-U.S. Memorandum of
Understanding. You can tell the deal is going really well when the MOU
is in tenuous shape after only two days.

Turns out there was no understanding contained within the Memorandum of Understanding. There was no agreement on even the most basic terms of
the deal. But if and when the entire thing falls apart, the people who promoted the deal the most will presumably blame Israel.

The whole thing is politically shortsighted in the extreme. The problem
is not people in America who are unenthusiastic about a bad MOU, or
Israel defending itself, or even Israelis who are unenthusiastic about
the MOU. The problem is that when you negotiate with a terrorist
regime, terrorists will lie to you.

Maybe the administration manages to pull a rabbit out of a hat. Or
maybe this goes precisely the way I think most people who have studied
the Middle East for any period of time think it's likely to go.

Shabbat shalom, gang.

Ben

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