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Jun 7, 2023Liked by Paul Mirengoff

Michael Barone, thinking of Vietnam, wrote that presidential aides should always present the president with an even number of policy choices, because if they present an odd number of choices, one of them will be in the middle, and a politician's natural caution will lead him or her to choose that option, which is usually the worst one.

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Yet more reason that neither Biden nor Trump should be President. Of the two, Biden is worse, since at least Trump did not have a military leadership obsessed, not with defeating the enemy, but with getting the "right" racial and gender balance in the armed forces, and with making sure PFC Smith uses the right pronouns.

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Biden will continue helping Iran to integrate back into the Mideast, along with all of its proxies, and he will pave their path to a nuclear bomb in gold. Meanwhile, the formerly Republican "neo-Cons," for some reason, will continue not to muster the mental wherewithal to say anything negative about this, making it abundantly clear to all that these people, many of whom are Jewish, do not give one whit about the security of Israel, and are a bunch of childish, mentally addled clowns, with no true understanding of geopolitics or the forces of history.

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And then there is China. If you think the CCP is not involved in this behind the curtain you are mistaken. The U.S. tied up and distracted in a war with Iran is a perfect scenario for them to go after Taiwan.

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