 The big news, I think over the weekend, it seems to wow people up, although why this was a surprise to anybody, why anybody thought this was something unexpected. It was the death of three American soldiers in, actually in Jordan. So on a base, on a small base, on the Jordanian-Syrian-Iraqi border, so it's a three-way border, it's a three-way spot, so pretty strategic in terms of what the United States is trying to do there. And it was in a territory pretty sure of Jordan itself. Jordan is an American ally. I think the United States changed Jordanian troops. I think the United States has a presence in Jordan. Anyway, this base in Jordan, we'll get to why it's there in a minute, was hit by a drone from an Iranian, supported an Iranian, backed an Iranian, whatever militia. It turns out that the air defense system that the United States has that should have shot the drone down, confused this drone with an American drone and thought that it was an American drone coming back to base. These are the kind of errors similar to friendly fire that you expect in war, that happen in war. You can't get too upset about these things in terms of the error, although I'm sure the people who committed the error would heart for them to erase it from their memory given the three of their fellow soldiers died as a consequence. You know, the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and in Syria have basically been attacking U.S. bases all over the region, now systematically, really, for decades. The Iranians were responsible for many of the deaths that the United States military encoded in Iraq, actually starting from 2006 on, hundreds of Americans died because of the Iranian-backed militias, however you want to call them, Iranian-provided military equipment. And the whole gamut of ways in which Iran was intervening in what was going on in Iraq. This has been going on steadily, again, since the United States entered Iraq in 2003. And Iran has been trying to kill Americans systematically over the last few months, since October 7th. Iranians have attacked military bases over and over and over again. They've injured many American troops, but indeed they have not killed any. The Biden administration has threatened, it's shaken its finger at them, that there would be consequences for this, but the consequences have been trivial and minor and insignificant. Iran, I mean, look, God, Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979 when they captured the American embassy and held 200, I can't remember the number, but they held the embassy personnel hostage. They were only released after a deal with Iran and Reagan cut, but a deal where the Iranians got something in return. Iranians were behind the attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. They were behind the kidnapping and murder and torture of Americans in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East throughout the 1980s. They were then responsible for the bombing of the Kobotawa in Saudi Arabia, which killed many dozens of Americans. Iranians have been trying to kill Americans, any American presence in the Middle East since 1979. And they continue to do so, and nobody does anything about it. Trump killed Soleimani in January of 2020. Following that, the Iranians bombed some allied facilities, the forces, the allied forces that were in Iraq killing three soldiers. The Trump administration didn't do anything. So this has been going on forever with almost no American president, no military standing up to the Iranians. Nothing zip nada. Biden has said that there will be a response, that the response might also target the Iranian Republican Guard as well as the militias themselves. The Republicans, some Republicans, not all Republicans, some Republicans are urging dramatic, significant offensive actions. We'll see what happens. My expectation is it'll be more pinpricks along the way. You know, it's stunning. Iran has been a war with the United States in 1979. We refuse to confront that war. We refuse to do anything about that war, right? And, you know, the hoodies are stopping shipping in the Red Sea. We bomb a few of their sites, and we pretend we've done something, right? Which is what the Biden administration has done so far. I expect that they will bomb some stuff. They're under a lot of political pressure to do so. They'll bomb the militias in Iraq and in Syria. They'll maybe even bomb some installations of the Iranians in Iraq and in Syria. Will they bomb anything in Iran itself? I think it's unlikely that they will actually bomb something in Iran, but it is possible. It is possible. What else? Yeah, I mean, one of the things they could do, one of the things they could do that would help a number of different causes, I think, that the United States supports, is how about bombing all the manufacturing facilities in which the Iranians are building drones? I mean, Iran is one of the largest manufacturers of drones right now in the world. Maybe it's only second to China. I don't know. But they build thousands of drones. They're shipping them, selling them to Russia. They're shipping them to the hoodies. They've obviously in the past sent them to Hamas. They're shipping them to Hezbollah. They are sending them to all the Iranian groups in Iraq and in Syria to attack the Americans. How about just not touching anybody else? All you do is you basically eviscerate every single manufacturing plant in Iran that is producing drones. Now, that would be so cool. I think that would be so cool. First of all, it would help the Ukrainians. It would help the Israelis. It would help the shipping in the Red Sea. And it would help the Americans. It would help everybody in terms of the result of it, basically crippling the ability of Iran to produce and sell these drones. And it would piss off Putin significantly. And just that is worth doing it. So that's what I would do among many other things. I mean, I would also take out their entire oil exporting facilities. I've told you that's relatively easy, because it's all concentrated in one place. That would be relatively easy to take that out completely. And if you just do those two things, I'm not sure the Iranian regime's divisive of being lying. Well, the third you have to do as well is take out their nuclear facilities, take out everything where they produce nuclear stuff. So we will see. But those are the three things I would do. Oil, drones, nuclear. If it was me, let's be serious here. If it was actually me, I would also take out the regime from the air, bomb all regime facilities and take out as many of them as possible. Khomeini and the whole Iranian power structure. And then let those girls, how about let those girls who demonstrated so bravely a year ago, let them take over the regime in Iran. That would be my solution. But I don't expect that. How about Biden, the drone factories? That's a simple one. It's not that hard. It's pretty straightforward. It was a drone, an Iranian made drone that killed those Americans doing it. One other comment, I want to make one other topic related to this. And that is the question of the presence of Iranian troops in the region. If you remember, Trump promised to bring all the troops from Syria home. I mean, he made that promise several times. American troops are still in Syria. And the fact is that American troops are constantly being attacked in Syria. American troops are still in Iraq. And as you can see, American troops are in Jordan. The supposed reason American troops are there is to be able to take out ISIS, to control ISIS and al-Qaeda and anybody else in that region. It's also the case that American troops are there. I think they're still involved in training Iraqi military or whatever. Who knows why? These are troops that are among troops that America has now in 100 different countries, all in the name of dealing with global terrorism, global Islamic terrorism. We've got troops all over Africa. We've got troops all over Asia, all with this idea of dealing with Islamic terrorism. I've said this over and over again over the years, bring these troops home, particularly given that we're not willing to defend them, particularly given that we have no strategy to defeat our enemies. If we had a strategy to defeat Islamic terrorism, and these troops were necessary as part of that strategy to deploy all over the world, and we had an end date and this was going to be a program and a strategy and we're going to take them out and done with it, then I'd say, yeah, keep them. That's fine. But there's no strategy. These are sitting ducks in foreign countries. They take out ISIS, al-Qaeda operatives here and there. They help the locals fight the Islamists here and there. Not a part as a broad strategy, no willingness to engage with the real villains, the ones who are really promoting, funding, supporting Islamic terrorism. We pretend that Qatar is a friend, Qatar who funded ISIS, probably is funding al-Qaeda. Many, many, many countries are funding al-Qaeda. There's al-Qaeda in Africa. Where does that come from? Who funds them? Shall I guess? Maybe Iran, maybe Saudi Arabia, certain foundations in Saudi Arabia, maybe the Qataris, maybe the Kuwaitis, maybe some others. Where the money is? The money is in the Gulf States. So let's stop pretending that we're fighting a global war on terrorism, which we should fight because it's going to kill us. We should fight it. But we're not doing it. We're pretending to do it and all we do is place our kids in danger and they get killed like they did over the weekend for no reason, for absolutely no reason. So bring them home. Bring them home or engage in a proper war to eradicate Islamic authoritarianism, totalitarianism, not authoritarianism, totalitarianism. 23 years ago, 23 years ago, unbelievable, right? In 2001, after 9-11, Congress passed a AUMF, which was not exactly a declaration of war, but it was basically an approval that Congress graved the president to do whatever he thought was necessary, deploy troops wherever he thought was necessary in order to combat global terrorism. It wasn't even Islamic terrorism because they were afraid to name Islam. So the AUMF, it was the authorization for military action. They purposely did not call it a war. I say repeal it. I'm not sure it's constitutional to begin with. Congress is supposed to approve the wars. It's supposed to declare wars. Ideally, you repeal it and declare war on Islamic totalitarianism. You list organizations and the countries that are responsible and you wipe them out. Yes, this was an authorization for military force, which means nothing. This should be an authorization, a war declaration, but then it has to be bounded. It has to be clearly defined who we're going to war with and what are the goals and what does victory look like. But that's what we refuse to do and kids are dying, continue to die because we refuse to do it.