The Stainless Steel Wererat

I’m sure leaders around the world are jumping at the chance to send their armed forces into America’s latest war porn studio.

We’ve entered a key phase in America’s latest war. It’s the part where people in power try to claim they were opposed to it the whole time.

From a purely pragmatic point of view, if your enemy is convinced that they’ll be killed if they surrender, they will be more likely to fight to the death.

This is something you want to avoid if your goal is to get the enemy to stop fighting.

I am constantly amazed how people in power will admit to the basest stupidity or malevolence you can imagine and then ask for credit for being transparent about it.

Who knew that the other side gets a turn too, right?

Thanks America.

One place that parts of the left and right seem to be united is the belief that the president can stop the war in Iran if he wants to. I think they’re going to be disappointed.

There are some people who will spend their whole life coming in second in the “But I’m The Special One” Olympics.

His body language and facial expressions are screaming of smarmy contempt. He’s literally squirming in his seat, and any his answers leave him wide open for follow up questions.

They either did zero witness prep with these guys, or the witnesses are ignoring everything they’ve been told. Just horrible on any level.

My favourite part of these kinds of articles is the subject always acts like they’ve made some kind of shocking discovery and now it’s their task to warn the world. They don’t realize that we’ve all been waiting for them to catch up with reality, and that their story is not at all unique or special.

The Constitution assumes that there will only ever be one bad person in government at any time and then will be promptly removed by the overwhelming majority of good people. You have to love the optimism if nothing else.

It’s just like the “Is this a war?” debate that isn’t a debate at all.

Can we just hit the reset button and let the crows or the octopodes try next?

He still thinks about war purely in terms of who has the most planes and ships. It’s a child’s view of the world.

There’s going to be a lot of people out there who pictured themselves as the new robber barons in an age of economic chaos. But chaos doesn’t let anyone build anything.

Or is ordered. By a president who is desperate to save face.

The nastiest thing about mines is sometimes you don’t even have to deploy them for them to be effective. Not unless someone volunteers to play minesweeper.

Does that count as the second time America has won the war or is that continuing from earlier this week?

Trump has run into the thing that sunk him in his first term, which is a crisis he can’t undo by backing down on a previous decision. It doesn’t matter if he declares victory and withdraws because it won’t end the war that he started.

A nation with monsters leading it.

Ships only do this when they’re not feeling well. You should take this ship to a harbour right away.

“Mission Accomplished!”

Trying to imagine a bomb going off in Israel or the USA, killing 150+ kids and having the media describe it as an “error.”

Literal clown shoes.

He’s eating the pieces and licking the board.

It’s like they decided to combine all the well documented errors in Vietnam, Iraq, and a host of other military misadventures, and then speed run the whole package.

All I can think about is what a diplomatic gift this is to China. The USA is eventually going to declare “victory”, run back home, and leave the Middle East as a series of smoking craters. Then China will stroll in with development aid.

This seems like something you want to think about before starting a war.

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