Five Quick Things: How’s the Iran War Actually Going?

Yesterday’s column was probably as dour as I get, and I regret nothing.

I’m as disgusted as our readers with the Republicans in the Senate, who — with some merciful exceptions — are as gray and drab a collection of political losers as America has ever produced. As I wrote yesterday, the utter debacle that is the SAVE America Act standstill in that body is proof that, as much as we’d like to think the GOP has finally moved past its well-deserved reputation as the Stupid Party in Washington, it hasn’t.

And while the American people deserve better than to lose the Senate majority to a catastrophically treasonous, anti-American Marxist mob of Democrats, including a Star Wars cantina scene cast of bizarre characters among their candidate list, the GOP Senate caucus actually richly deserves that fate based on their performance over the past six months starting with their refusal to break the siege of the Democrats’ government-shutdown filibuster last fall.

There is time to redeem at least some of this. It’s difficult to see the inclination.

Would that the senators performed as well as our men and women in uniform do at their jobs.

Which is, generally, the topic of the 5QT today.

1. A geometric Trap for the Iranian Regime

You’ve likely heard messaging from the Trump administration, and particularly War Secretary Pete Hegseth, about how we’ve only just begun the military campaign against Iran. This might have made you nervous if you’re one of the large majority of Americans who want no part of sending ground troops into that country to finish off its apocalyptic, tyrannical regime.

I don’t think a ground war is what Hegseth was talking about, for two reasons which we’ll discuss in our first two items of this 5QT entry.