Confusion

Everyone in WOWTMSM agrees that war is bad but as previously mentioned in last weeks article, "bleep" blowing up is good.  It must be as they can't stop showing it, even if the Talking Heads are wringing their hands and clutching their pearls, over the price of gas at the pump.  

Then there is 'Boots On The Ground.  Boots on the ground are bad.  No, boots on the ground are good, even necessary.  And for some of us, whenever we hear "boots on the ground" we get this image of just that, boots on the ground.  Some lined up nice and neat and others just strewn about, as if they were just dropped there.  But no one is wearing them.  There are no soldiers anywhere, just boots, boots on the ground, boots on the ground everywhere.  Maybe that's not a bad thing.  Maybe some people in Iran , need some boots.  Maybe we could just drop some in.

Then there is the "Forever War'.  Not another 'Forever War' puhleezzeee!  BTW what is a "Forever War'?  There was the 100 years war back in the 1300's and 1400's, between England and France and France and France  That might have seemed like forever but 100 years as long as it was, was not quite forever.  Not even close.  Besides, no one knew they were in the 100 years war.  It got that designation after the fact.  Just as some historians now see WWI and WWII as one war.  But there has never been a forever war, so we don't think there will be one now.  On the other hand, if there is a forever war, we won't know, as none of us will be around, when it ends.

Then there is the DJT POTUS 45 & 47 announcing that we are engaging negotiations to end the War with Iran.  But then the IRGC and the Basij militia at first claimed there are no such talks.  Then the IRGC and the Basij guys announce they reject all the proposals made by DJT 45 & 47 POTUS and came back with there own.  Somebody must have talked to somebody.

It's all a bit confusing, no?  Well not really.  Try to remember that a nation is made up of a lot more entities than it's military and government figures.  There are businesses of all kinds, manufacturing of all kinds, institutions of all kinds like agriculture, transportation, health, religious and not just the Mullahs, cultural etcetera, etcetera, just like all societies.  So, it is quite possible that we are negotiating with responsible entities in Iran.  And not just with the IRGC and the boys from Basij.  So both conditions, can be true.

And don't listen to the Talking Heads too much.  They're just reading from a teleprompter and they're not even sure what's on it half the time.  The other half of the time...  Well your guess is as good as ours.

We hope we have removed some of the confusion.  But we are selves are quite confused, so don't get your hopes up too high because we could be wrong.  If we are we will admit it, unlike The Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti Of The Known World who will simply run on to their next point of expertise, as quickly as they can.

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Boom!

Amid the smoke of this war, there seems to be a few images that get replayed over and over again.  The first one is a missile or a bomb hitting something in a circle.  That's it right above and it looks like they got it.  The What Once Was The Main Stream Media, seems to be in love with this one.  Some of the WOWTMSM Talking Heads are rooting for the war and some are rooting against the war but they all agree that this image is something extraordinaire.  It speaks to them.  What does it say?  Damned if we know.

Then they keep showing video of missile launch trucks being blown to smithereens.  What's so special about those, we don't know either.  Maybe it's the montage aspect of it all.  There is a lot of these trucks, all going boom, boom, boom, one right after another.  Maye there is some music playing in the back of their heads like the end of the 1812 Overture, or the end of Bolero.  You can find those tunes on Youtube and see which fits.  We kind of think it's Bolero.

Trust us though none of The Talking Heads or The Cognoscenti Of The Known World know what is going on.  They just know a lot of stuff is going boom!  Maybe those images that they keep showing over and over again, are what is going on in their minds.

And no matter how you may feel about this BOOM, please stand by and pray for our young men and woman out there.  Let them come home safely and in victory.  Let them get the win.

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'That Which We Call A Rose'

There has been some difficulty in the pronunciation of the first name of the new Ayatollah of Iran.  This is no small thing.  How would we all feel if people around the world consistently miss pronounced our President's names like Barack or Dwight or Lyndon or Franklin Delano?  The problem seems to lie in the spelling of Mojtaba.  Is the J silent?  Is it pronounced J and how?  This isn't English or Spanish.  

We will need to write about him from time to time, so why don't we just call him Mojito?  Mojito Khamenei.  Mojitos are fun.  Once we have a fun term everyone can use, we can avoid offending.  Something we try very hard to do, not offend, that is.  Oh yes Mojitos are a rum based drink that came from Cuba originally and they are quite tasty and depending on who makes them, can be quite potent.

And yes there a other problems with Mojito Khamenei.  He might be in a coma.  He might have lost a leg.  He might need a lot of plastic surgery for his face.  But the biggest problem is, he might not be around too long.  Who will be next?

And we hate to feel dumb.  But we don't pretend to be experts, so well, we can be dumb.  But we don't think anyone here, has ever heard of Kharg Island before.  Have you?  Seems that 90 percent of all of Iran's oil goes through this heretofore never mentioned island but now on the lips of every expert, as it got bombed.  How come no one has mentioned it before?  We don't mean Gamers who have been attacking this island for a few decades on their screens, but the Cognoscenti Of The Known World and the Talking Heads, especially the military experts among them.  Maybe dumb, is a thing that's going around and we shouldn't feel too bad about it.

We get why the Secretary of War and our own Head of the Joint Chiefs wouldn't mention it.  As why alert anyone to potential targets?

And oh yeah how do you pronounce Kharg?  Sounds like "Car egg" maybe.  Maybe we should just call it Rose island.  That way we can link this article back to the title.

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Title "That which we call a rose by any other name, would still smell as sweet."  Juliet to Romeo.  William Shakespeare.