guessing legacy admit

With all that is going on in the U.S./world, THIS is the "scandal of the summer"? (it's not)

Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia?

Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.

(Seriously, that’s the answer)

It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.

You know Dan, I appreciate you continuing to post here, even though I'm sure you get a small fraction of the engagement you get on Twitter. But I appreciate it.

yes they will

The question wasn't "Should the U.S. have bombed Iran?" You're equating two largely separate questions as if they were the same thing, and they're not.

Of course Iran has a nuclear weapons program, and nothing about the current situation is similar to Iraq. There's no credible peaceful use for 60% enriched uranium, being enriched in fortified bunkers a half mile underground. Embarrassing.

And how's that strategy working out for Iran right now? Also what would it look like if Iran had given up its obsession with destroying Israel for the last 50 years and instead focused on bettering the lives of everyday Iranians?

What non-military use is there for 60% enriched uranium?

The Iran collateral human casualties are many orders of magnitude lower than the 500K number you brought up with a nonsensical and irrelevant historical comparison from decades ago...

...because it's easier to argue that number rather than the actual total. Definitionally a strawman.

Do we have 500K dead Iranians? Again, you like arguing against strawmen, presumably because arguing against reality is less persuasive.

Unless said argument is which city has the larger population.

"People" are not being bombed, with strategic exceptions. Weapons and infrastructure are being bombed, obviously with collateral human causalities.

My question--and my only question--was why Wajahat views it as a blunder.

Also, the population of Tehran vs NYC is immaterial to any argument.

Why do you believe it to be a blunder?

0% chance it was an allergic reaction.

Other than being occupied by brown-skinned muslims and residing in the Middle East, what do Iraq and Iran have in common such that you feel so (very) confident comparing U.S. interests in regime change in one country to regime change in the other?

Don't understand...why is that "the quiet part"? It's a worthwhile goal and I see no problem with it being explicitly stated.

I 100% blame Biden for not passing reforms, and have said repeatedly since the 2020 election that ALL I wanted from a Biden presidency was for him to preserve democracy and Trump-proof America, and he was an abject failure at it. Horrible strategic error, that I think was largely due to his vanity.

wait wait wait you can't possibly be that credulous

does not have the ring of truth

He very obviously does not know what that phrase means. He heard it somewhere and has co-opted it without having any idea how it's used in real life.

*judgment

The WNBA very much does rise and fall with Caitlin Clark.

Yeah the tone (and honestly, content) of the article is at odds with reality. The WNBA has never been profitable, and lost $50M last year. That's fine, newer ventures often aren't, but it will be 30 years old next year. If it weren't subsized heavily by the NBA, it would have been bankrupt long ago.

I couldn't agree more. I just don't like misportrayals.

If you'd replied to any of the actual things that I'd said, I'd reply to this, but you didn't, so I won't.

Agree. But people who are in denial about Biden's mental state, and who continue to try to excuse it with "he was sick, etc" are hurting, not helping. It was what it was; agree much more pressing things to focus on. But don't lie to me that it's "because he was ill/jetlagged etc, because it wasn't.

He showed he was irrefutably not qualified to be president due to diminished mental capacity. You can say Trump is worse, and of course that's true. However Biden was not mentally competent enough for a second term, and everyone around him knew it, and they hid it from the public. Not defensible.