Is it a ‘Peace Deal’ or just a ‘Ceasefire Agreement’?

Enco,

This deal is shakier than a Shaker with Parkinson’s disease. How things proceed is anybody’s guess.

Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1820. I would like to see a new territory perhaps in Maine in which the minority of Americans who are proudly uncaptured by ideological brain worm infestation syndrome reside peacefully and productively…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s the latest of 39 proclamations of “Peace In Our Time.” Trump and whoever he’s negotiating with don’t agree on even a “Memorandum of Understanding” proceeding a “Deal,” with Israel not even in the loop except for Trump restraining Israel from fighting back against Hezbollah.

Oh. and…[Read more]

Simon, neither side wants to back down? Trump does not know how to cooperate?

Read the article. IRGC is possessed of an evil all consuming religious ideology. Trump is just a bumbling stumbling would be dictator utterly self absorbed and apparently devoid of principles.

Trump has been played like a fool over and over. Trump wants to end this…[Read more]

I knew I was getting old when my cellphone announced “Face not recognized” and I agreed with it 🙂

Reg and Simon:

Where Trump messed up is not taking out both the Mullahs and the IRGC first, preferably by inciting Iran’s regular Military to mutiny and/or parachuting arms to dissenting Persian citizens. Let the military and dissenters be the “boots on the ground.”

Without the Mullahs and IRGC, arms wouldn’t ship themselves to Hamas and…[Read more]

Reg:

I once told some auditing Scientologists that if reincarnation were true, that I would like to return as “a football pitch in the West of Ireland for the ladies field hockey final on a warm but rain-soaked Sunday “. They were ‘shocked and disgusted’, much to my amusement.

“I don’t ask for enlightenment. I ask only to be useful, trampled up…

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The IRGC just needs to survive. From them that is a win. Funding for its militia armies in Gaza and Lebanon – (Hamas and Hezbollah) – depends on that. Trump has won the war about 25 times already.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why Iran continues to choose war over peace.

Until then, the IRGC will pursue its “forever war,” threatening regional stability, the global economy, and U.S. national security.

I knew it – neither side wants to back down.  Trump doesn’t know how to cooperate, the IRGC just wants to keep doing its thing.