Good column. I'm surprised though that you are seemingly pretty negative on the tariff as a negotiating ploy. We should have known it all along. To early to know how it will work out, but my sense is that it will for the most part..
Maybe, and I generally think the tariff gambit has kinda succeeded.
But the problem is, Trump can easily get a reputation for negotiation posturing. If Iran thinks he's merely posturing on nuclear enrichment just as he was merely posturing on tariffs, then Iran won't back down. In poker, if the table knows you're a bluffer, they'll start calling your bluffs.
Agree....I hope he doesn't back down....If they do not submit, we can take care of the money through sanctions, etc. and Israel, who couldn't be hated by them any more, can take care of their nuclear facilities..
From 2017 to 2020 Trump punished Iran and Russia far more than you ever imagined by increasing supply of oil to drop the price and cripple their governments. Do you ever wonder why the world has kept the price of oil at $80 to $100 per barrel for thirty years?! Our government signed up for that your entire life, Glenn. Why? Because the Texas oil cartel benefits from it as well, not the American people. It is why Trump was kicked out of orifice. Yes, he was kicked out in favor of Iran and China: Iran to keep the war machine going for our elites and China for their cost reductions.
Trump used one missile to send Iran a message: Soleimani. They know what he is capable of and they know how much they can ideologically influence our elites, or pay them off.
We need to back Trump no matter what as he is actually taking risk.
When Obama reached a nuclear agreement with Iran in 2016, he air-dropped $400 million in cash within Iran on pallets and un-froze $1.3 Billion in Iranian assets held in the US. Trump's response was "Iran was in big trouble, they had sanctions, they were dying, we took off the sanctions and made this horrible deal and now they’re a power. We paid $400 million for the hostages. Such a bad precedent was set by Obama. We have two more hostages there right? What are we going to pay for them? What we’re doing is insane.".
Trump cancelled the nuclear "deal" with Iran in 2018 and froze billions of dollars in Iranian bank accounts.
Conversely, Joe Biden arranged the release of $6 Billion in frozen Iranian assets in 2023 to facilitate "humanitarian trade". Trump's response was "So, lets get this straight! We did a hostage TRADE with Iran. We gave them 5 very tough, smart people that they desperately wanted. We likewise got back 5 people BUT, we also gave them 6 BILLION DOLLARS! How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get? Does anyone realize how much money 6 Billion Dollars is?"
Yes, Trump will punish Iran as much as he punished Harvard.
Glenn: The real question is will Congress allow Trump to declare war on Iran? Also, how is it that institutions like Harvard et al. qualify (any more) for federal dollars and tax exemptions? (I know that's a two part question.) A few years ago, there was a Roman Catholic priest named Father Corapi--who has dropped off the face of the earth years ago. Corapi said he would NOT have tax exemptions in his church, as then, he could say ANYTHING from the pulpit. If the Ivies are SO into anti-semitism and "free speech" (at least one side of it) why not just forget federal tax breaks and then they can openly do what they want. With their endowments, they certainly don't need more money!
The final confrontation between good and evil has begun…pitting those who adhere to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” against those who do not; the false religion of human intellectual arrogance, Marxianity, posing as a political ideology in and utterly incongruous alliance with a political ideology, Islam, posing as a religion…with both seeking to destroy the United States so as to destroy Israel.
It really is that simple.
When Christians finally come to realize they are Judeo-Christians, Jews of Yeshua’s lesser House of Judah, the reckoning will be as God prophesized in Zechariah 12:1-9:
“The prophecy of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Says the Lord, Who stretches out the heavens and founds the earth and forms the spirit of man within him: Behold! I am making Jerusalem a cup of weakness for all the peoples around, and also on Judah, [that he] shall be in the siege against Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass on that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of burden for all peoples; all who bear it shall be gashed, and all the nations of the earth shall gather about it….And the princes of Judah shall say to themselves, "The inhabitants of Jerusalem were my strength through the Lord of Hosts, their God." On that day I will make the princes of Judah as a fiery stove among wood, and as a brand of fire among sheaves. And they shall consume on the right and on the left all the nations round about, and Jerusalem shall still stay in its place in Jerusalem…And it shall come to pass on that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come upon Jerusalem.”
I don't see the problem. Hahhhhhhhvaaaaaaahhhhd is far more dangerous to the United States than Iran.
Good column. I'm surprised though that you are seemingly pretty negative on the tariff as a negotiating ploy. We should have known it all along. To early to know how it will work out, but my sense is that it will for the most part..
Maybe, and I generally think the tariff gambit has kinda succeeded.
But the problem is, Trump can easily get a reputation for negotiation posturing. If Iran thinks he's merely posturing on nuclear enrichment just as he was merely posturing on tariffs, then Iran won't back down. In poker, if the table knows you're a bluffer, they'll start calling your bluffs.
Agree....I hope he doesn't back down....If they do not submit, we can take care of the money through sanctions, etc. and Israel, who couldn't be hated by them any more, can take care of their nuclear facilities..
From 2017 to 2020 Trump punished Iran and Russia far more than you ever imagined by increasing supply of oil to drop the price and cripple their governments. Do you ever wonder why the world has kept the price of oil at $80 to $100 per barrel for thirty years?! Our government signed up for that your entire life, Glenn. Why? Because the Texas oil cartel benefits from it as well, not the American people. It is why Trump was kicked out of orifice. Yes, he was kicked out in favor of Iran and China: Iran to keep the war machine going for our elites and China for their cost reductions.
Trump used one missile to send Iran a message: Soleimani. They know what he is capable of and they know how much they can ideologically influence our elites, or pay them off.
We need to back Trump no matter what as he is actually taking risk.
When Obama reached a nuclear agreement with Iran in 2016, he air-dropped $400 million in cash within Iran on pallets and un-froze $1.3 Billion in Iranian assets held in the US. Trump's response was "Iran was in big trouble, they had sanctions, they were dying, we took off the sanctions and made this horrible deal and now they’re a power. We paid $400 million for the hostages. Such a bad precedent was set by Obama. We have two more hostages there right? What are we going to pay for them? What we’re doing is insane.".
Trump cancelled the nuclear "deal" with Iran in 2018 and froze billions of dollars in Iranian bank accounts.
Conversely, Joe Biden arranged the release of $6 Billion in frozen Iranian assets in 2023 to facilitate "humanitarian trade". Trump's response was "So, lets get this straight! We did a hostage TRADE with Iran. We gave them 5 very tough, smart people that they desperately wanted. We likewise got back 5 people BUT, we also gave them 6 BILLION DOLLARS! How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get? Does anyone realize how much money 6 Billion Dollars is?"
Yes, Trump will punish Iran as much as he punished Harvard.
Glenn: The real question is will Congress allow Trump to declare war on Iran? Also, how is it that institutions like Harvard et al. qualify (any more) for federal dollars and tax exemptions? (I know that's a two part question.) A few years ago, there was a Roman Catholic priest named Father Corapi--who has dropped off the face of the earth years ago. Corapi said he would NOT have tax exemptions in his church, as then, he could say ANYTHING from the pulpit. If the Ivies are SO into anti-semitism and "free speech" (at least one side of it) why not just forget federal tax breaks and then they can openly do what they want. With their endowments, they certainly don't need more money!
The best way to punish Iran is for Trump to get Qatar to build several natural gas fueled electrical generating stations in Syria.
Then sell Syrians American made refrigerator/freezers.
The result is that Syrians can buy frozen food cheaper than food from Iran.
The Harvard Corporation is large-the school is just a small part.
War is inevitable…and it will happen very soon.
The final confrontation between good and evil has begun…pitting those who adhere to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” against those who do not; the false religion of human intellectual arrogance, Marxianity, posing as a political ideology in and utterly incongruous alliance with a political ideology, Islam, posing as a religion…with both seeking to destroy the United States so as to destroy Israel.
It really is that simple.
When Christians finally come to realize they are Judeo-Christians, Jews of Yeshua’s lesser House of Judah, the reckoning will be as God prophesized in Zechariah 12:1-9:
“The prophecy of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Says the Lord, Who stretches out the heavens and founds the earth and forms the spirit of man within him: Behold! I am making Jerusalem a cup of weakness for all the peoples around, and also on Judah, [that he] shall be in the siege against Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass on that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of burden for all peoples; all who bear it shall be gashed, and all the nations of the earth shall gather about it….And the princes of Judah shall say to themselves, "The inhabitants of Jerusalem were my strength through the Lord of Hosts, their God." On that day I will make the princes of Judah as a fiery stove among wood, and as a brand of fire among sheaves. And they shall consume on the right and on the left all the nations round about, and Jerusalem shall still stay in its place in Jerusalem…And it shall come to pass on that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come upon Jerusalem.”
Harvard, I assume, has fewer weapons of mass destruction.