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CPAC crowd for Reza Pahlavi and CPAC crowd 50 minutes after he left the room




UPDATE: I’m really struggling to call what happens next On one hand, Trump needs an off-ramp to limit the global economic damage and growing domestic political pressure Iran would also like this war to end before more cities are leveled and more leaders are killed On the other hand, Iran is doing surprisingly well controlling the Strait, striking the Gulf and Israel, and selling oil for more than twice the price than before the war, making a killing And on the American side, troops are heading to the region for what increasingly looks like a ground operation to control Hormuz Negotiations are the most promising development since February 28th. But Iran's warnings to Gulf nations against supporting any ground operation, combined with maximalist demands from both sides, make a deal unlikely in the short term




@nadinecarroll @ThomasPaineBand @BrowningMachine The only way this doesnt turn into a forever war is if Trump turns tail now. Before he puts boots on the ground in a Kharg-island type situation and gets stuck in the escalation trap when thousands of our boys get killed or, worse, captured.









Bannon’s CPAC off the hook this year











Last night, @TuckerCarlson acknowledged, “as a Christian,” the biblical mandate to “bless Israel,” but suggested that the “government of Benjamin Netanyahu” was not biblical “Israel.” Seems to me a pretty misguided point that this son of a rabbi will try to address: — Israel has always been Israel; it has always had leaders, some good some not. The Bible has never qualified the mandate to “bless Israel” by who was leading it (and, btw, I support Netanyahu). — the nation of Israel today comprises a people that prays in the same language, in the same places and with the same liturgy as in ancient times. Its faith is governed by the Old Testament. This is the same nation of Israel referred to in the Bible. — the return of the Jewish people from exile to statehood within the Land of Israel is exactly the Biblical prophesy of Ezekiel, Isaiah and Jeremiah, and actualizes God’s covenants with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You don’t need to believe any of this, but if you are a self-proclaimed Christian professing allegiance to Biblical covenants and prophesies but denying these principles, I don’t understand your theology.



@tedcruz If I named my son Jesus, would you worship him as God because he has the same name as the Jesus from the Bible?








