178 Days: Israel and Iran

There are so many unknowns that it's easy to be overwhelmed by all the possibilities, especially the dire ones. It's frightening to think how much damage the current regime could cause if Kamala is essentially in charge.

I have been commenting here for about three weeks that Biden's continued occupation of the office of POTUS is a threat to every person in the USA. However, if he were to resign now our President would be Kamala. So, after having enjoyed a lovely morning to start another day of sublime retirement, OB brings me crashing back to reality. Thanks a lot!

I would like to bring up a short, but ominous sentence (in bold) from Netanyahu's speech to Congress. I will preface it with the previous sentence for context:

"That’s why the mobs in Tehran chant “Death to Israel” before they chant “Death to America.” For Iran Israel is first, America is next. So, when Israel fights Hamas, we’re fighting Iran. When we fight Hezbollah, we’re fighting Iran. When we fight the Houthis, we’re fighting Iran. And when we fight Iran, we’re fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the United States of America.

And one more thing. When Israel acts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons that could destroy Israel and threaten every American city, every city that you come from, we’re not only protecting ourselves. We’re protecting you."

Notice he didn't say IF Israel acts, but WHEN she acts.

It is a precarious time. Marco Rubio released this statement on June 25, 2024:

According to reports, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified more than 400 illegal migrants who came across U.S. borders as part of an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has been warning about this smuggling network for months.

In March 2024, at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed to Rubio there are “dangerous threats that emanate from our border.”

RUBIO: There is a network we’re concerned about that has facilitators involved in it that have ties to ISIS and other terrorist organizations.

WRAY: Correct.

In April 2024, Rubio warned about the smuggling ring on the Senate floor.

“Beyond that, as the director of the FBI has acknowledged, ISIS generates income by running a human smuggling ring that brings migrants to the United States. Just the bare minimum of common sense would lead you to conclude that if ISIS has a business to smuggle migrants into the U.S., why wouldn’t they use that to smuggle a few terrorists here to do in America what they did in Moscow a few weeks ago?

We have Hamas, and we have Hezbollah, and we have all these terror groups encouraging and supporting violent mobs calling for intifada inside America. We already have people here on student visas calling for death to America. And ISIS controls a migrant smuggling ring that they can use to bring people into the United States to conduct attacks.”

In May 2024, Rubio penned an op-ed, Biden’s open border lets ISIS walk right into US.

“Things look even grimmer when you consider the public reporting that foreign smugglers with ISIS ties have facilitated illegal immigration at the southern border….

The answer to this problem is simple: secure the border and enforce America’s immigration laws. Yet,…President Biden has done nothing to reverse the open-border policies he campaigned on and spent the last three years enacting. This is unacceptable and places American lives in jeopardy….

We’re playing right into the hands of terrorists who seek our destruction. I hope and pray I’m wrong, but I fear that under this administration’s policies, we are sitting ducks….”Rubio echoed those concerns in March on Fox and Friends, Face the Nation, and ABC’s This Week.

cdor (View Comment):

I have been commenting here for about three weeks that Biden’s continued occupation of the office of POTUS is a threat to every person in the USA. However, if he were to resign now our President would be Kamala. So, after having enjoyed a lovely morning to start another day of sublime retirement, OB brings me crashing back to reality. Thanks a lot!

I would like to bring up a short, but ominous sentence (in bold) from Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. I will preface it with the previous sentence for context:

“That’s why the mobs in Tehran chant “Death to Israel” before they chant “Death to America.” For Iran Israel is first, America is next. So, when Israel fights Hamas, we’re fighting Iran. When we fight Hezbollah, we’re fighting Iran. When we fight the Houthis, we’re fighting Iran. And when we fight Iran, we’re fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the United States of America.

And one more thing. When Israel acts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons that could destroy Israel and threaten every American city, every city that you come from, we’re not only protecting ourselves. We’re protecting you.”

Notice he didn’t say IF Israel acts, but WHEN she acts.

Sure but that doesn't require something yet to come; Israel has ALREADY done such things. So "when" could be grammatically correct even if they never do anything like it again in the future.

Susan Quinn (View Comment):

There are so many unknowns that it’s easy to be overwhelmed by all the possibilities, especially the dire ones. It’s frightening to think how much damage the current regime could cause if Kamala is essentially in charge.

If Kamala is elected, she will not be in charge. She will function in all the ceremonial roles. That's pretty all the leash she'll get.