Michael Daniel Goodnough, PhD

You cannot bomb a civilization into alignment. You can only bomb it into a different shape of resistance

Every empire has its rituals. The toga. The triumph. The televised address to a joint session of Congress where everyone claps at the right moments and goes home to a country that is still broken.

HTS spent a decade becoming respectable enough for the West to stop calling it a terrorist organization. The Kurds should remember what it was doing during that decade.

The case for war with Iran always rests on what Iran might do. The case against it rests on what every prior intervention in the region actually did. One argument is theoretical. The other is a graveyard. Absurd!