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So when you boil it down, the ‘memorandum’ secures Iran’s war aims? No end to the Islamic Republic of Iran government, no end to Iran’s missile programme, no handover of enriched uranium, yes to ending US sanctions and thus forgoing any political leverage, yes to accepting Iranian (and Omani, for what it’s worth) control over Hormuz, no end to the IRGC proxy forces in Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon… and, er, an Iranian promise to be nice in the future and not make nukes?
This is not being well received by everyone.
Assorted wags have remarked:
Hegseth renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War, whereupon he lost a war.
and…
Donald Trump promised the war would end with unconditional surrender, and boy did he deliver.
It would all be a lot funnier if it was not quite so tragic.
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Does no one in the western world understand the meaning and philosophy of the word, “taquiyya”?
While I would certainly replace ‘fools and bairns’ with something like ‘people not privy’ (which is all of us), the old maxim still stands. This is not to say that we shouldn’t worry, just that one of the two fat ladies will probably sing only after the midterms.