War with Iran, or Not
A reflection from January, 2020 B.C. (Before Corona)
The news has lately been a frivolous psychodrama, and journalists reduced to reporting an inane tweet punched out on the Presidential iPhone, or the latest entry in the impeached-or-not-impeached saga. The lack of seriousness, partisanship, and pettiness that has marked these proceedings is indicative of the twilight-zone mediocrity that characterizes American public life at the moment.
Congress can not perform its basic duty of passing a budget in regular order. It has little to no control over foreign policy proceedings. The Democrats bow before whichever way the wind of their base blows, and the Republicans are hopelessly subservient to an executive branch operating on the edges of the law. These sides are bogged down in intractable disagreement that seems to be a show for their electorate in a never ending campaign. And then there is the public war between officials carried over from the previous administration and the current government, each trying to undermine the other. No one it seems acts in the objective interest of the public, or acts in the interest and reputation of their branch of government.
Over this gridlock I recently learned to tweet. Simply to show many of these pundits what a coherent, principled argument looks like. And to troll for my own self amusement. Which on my accounting is…
