SecWar Declares "Victory" with a Capital "F"


Since 28 February and the daily  alphabet soup of news regarding PeeWee's Big Adventure in Iran,  I have consumed a lot of broth through the straw and am left to examine the letters in the bowl.  I am looking at a lot of "F's".  




Epic Foolhardiness.  It is quite the victory... for Iran.  And across the board, they are ebullient and bragadoccio.  I have not looked at the news, since viewing this article early this morning.  But my gut tells me Tehran is going to make an example of us again soon.  They will bend us over.  Probably today.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15715557/Pete-Hegseth-declares-victory-Iran-capital-V-thanks-war-fighters-claims-Iran-begged-ceasefire.html

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Iran - with no reason to trust us to keep our word - has plainly stated the streets will not be emptied of human shields over the next two weeks.  The protected bridges and power plants will become encampments.  

America - with no reason to trust Tehran to keep their word - may be in for more surprises.  Even now, the unsure footing regarding what I took note of yesterday as a standby signal for suicide attacks and the uneasiness regarding a latency signal. If what bounces off the satellite and back gives longitude and latitude geo-location, how quickly do we locate the recipients of the signal - which is now in the tens of thousands of views.    Have any of those on the Terrorist Screening Dataset purchased musk?  Or will it be "clean skins"?  It will not be Irish-Americans... Peter, Paul, and John... who mount an attack.  But from a pre-emptive command to execution of command might be hours... days.. weeks.  I really do not want to know - seated at my desktop at home which also produces the journalism signal; a pure research signal. 

There was an interesting casual communication which caught my gaze.  The brag was, that with nobody "really in charge" for the last few days, Iran has managed their own great victory.  It begs the question.  Who is in charge?  When you blow up a chain of command, it leaves you without a visible chain for the approach.  Tehran now owns a Slinky - a dangerous helical toy - which it is hoped is in the hands of capable adults.

The Pentagon may be able to lay claim to a military victory.  But it must never be confused with a foreign policy victory.  Within that camp, our tattered relationships with our Gulf allies who have taken a pounding.  And a military victory is not a domestic political victory.  

President Trump claims that "We are going to win big!" with the Strait of Hormuz opening and that we will help "manage" it.  But there is no qualifying or quantifying metric applied to the sloganeering.  It reminds me of a story my mother told of a dim-witted voter... errr, child... who attended her primary school.  Every day the boys would run up to him and play their little game.  Holding up a nickle and a dime they would ask,  "Which one do you want,  Timmy?"  On the shallow end of the gene pool, Timmy would reply, "I want the big one!"  He would receive his nickle and the boys would take off laughing with the dime.  I think the President and his friends took my dime.

So now that I have posted this latest screech, I will take a look at the news.  It remains a basic propagandizing alphabet soup.  Truth.  It is in short supply on either side.  But the math never lies.  Soon enough,  Americans will understand what "win big" really means.

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