The Iranians are doing a cut-and-paste of Saddam’s folks from 1990.

I do not know if there will be a war between the United States and Iran. The Iranians are refusing to discuss three major topics: their ballistic missile program, funding of terror groups worldwide, and treatment of protesting citizens. On the fourth topic, they apparently are not willing to end their nuclear work. Sounds like a completely losing program, but don’t worry, Witkoff and Kushner will pull out a flimsy piece of paper and declare, “We have peace in our time.”

In Israel, everyone is trying to guess when the attack—should it occur—will take place. I noticed this past Saturday that our parking garage-turned-bomb-shelter had its main gate open, something that is generally not the case. Aha! They know something and left it open so that if we have to run there, we can enter quickly. When Saturday came and went and thank God no Iranian missiles were seen in the skies over Jerusalem, that was one more false lead in the story. People on the lunatic Right suggest that any action taken by the U.S. against Iran is some favor done for Israel. The reality is that should the U.S., in the person of the Commander-in-Chief, decide to go to war, there would appear to be a serious chance that Israel would once again be bombarded by Iranian projectiles. Israel being attacked is a weird way of getting the U.S. to do you a favor. It would appear that, beyond a very small group of people, nobody knows anything about U.S. plans, other than a lot of military assets that seem to be coming to the area around Iran. The president said that, like in Venezuela, he is taking his time getting pieces in place, but on the other hand, suggested that talks went well. He would give investors betting on war in Polymarket a heart attack.

One thing that I noticed is that in some ways, the standoff is reminiscent of the weeks and months prior to........

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