A convoy carrying much-needed humanitarian assistance crossed the Rafah border this morning into Gaza to address the growing humanitarian crisis. We thank our partners in Egypt and Israel, and the United Nations, for facilitating the safe passage of these life-saving shipments.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) October 21, 2023
Don't take it from me, take it from one of the finest judicial minds this country has ever produced.
"I believe that force, mitigated as may be by good manners, is the ultima ratio, and between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of world I see no remedy except force." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Holmes knew about force and irreconcilable conflict, having served as an infantryman in the Civil War where he was wounded three times. At Antietam he was shot through the neck and left for dead on the field, one of 23,000 casualties in that single battle.
Be prepared to see Civil War-size casualty numbers once the Israeli Armed Forces really tear into HAMAS. Let the IDF mitigate that reality by abiding with the laws of war, to whatever extent those good manners may apply to a sub-state adversary, but realists should expect to see a nearly-Carthaginian peace imposed on HAMAS in Gaza.
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Considering where you work!
I'm from Texas and snakes don't bother me but this is too much. Oh by the way I meant the town you work in DC!!
That *is* pretty startling. DC? Well, I work in close line-of-sight to DC but on the Virginia side of the river in the Land of Annexes, where the real work of government get done. It's a fine distinction, but an important one to me.
I do not envy you!
We're about to see politicians who rode wokeism to power deny they ever had anything to do with it.
Has the Great Awokening gone too far by cheer-leading for Hamas and chanting "from the river to the sea" or even (in Sydney) "gas the Jews?"
I can believe that, at least I can see big hints of it in places like Germany and France where they are starting to actually deport some Hamas-loving immigrants. Even our own weak backlash against Harvard students is encouraging.
Will it be Thermidor in America again? Will the San Culottes vote in Trump again? Yeah, big things may be happening.
The way they treat Trump makes me laugh. It reminds me of Atlas who if you threw him to the ground he got up stronger, but if you held him up in the air he got weaker. Maybe it was Theseus or Perseus.
I think Atlas was tricked into holding up the sky forever, which is kind of a tempting fate for Trump: condemned to harass his opponents on social media forever (!). That's a show I'd pay to see.
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