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J “Time does its thing without any prompting or payment. It comes, it goes. Nature’s indifferent metronome.”
K “And it is doing its thing. With grave consequences for everyone and in particular for one team.”
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K “The Ukrainian attack on the Iranian ship melds and welds the wars into a web of destruction.”
J “More agglutinating and coagulating, more digging and deepening.”
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K “Seems that Iran has let the others in the neighborhood know what targets it intends to hit. And their neighbors know that Iran can do it and the U.S. can do desperately little about it.”
J “And then the neighbors must sell Treasuries to raise funds for reconstruction.”
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K “The U.S. has its hands full, quietly bailing out Japan to save the market for Treasuries.”
J “The U.S. has its hands full everywhere.”
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Bumper Stickers of the Week:
When you are in a hole, . . . give some passing thought to curtailing the digging.
The Southeast Asian War Games (d.b.a. ‘Nam) had their soundtracks. Today’s conflicts are no different:
Soundtrack for Iran:
“Time Is On My Side” The Rolling Stones
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Soundtracks for Israel and the United States:
“Nowhere to Run” Martha and the Vandellas
“We Gotta Get Out of This Place” The Animals
“The Gambler” written by Don Schlitz and sung by Kenny Rogers. (“You’ve got to know when to hold’em, know when to fold’em, know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table, There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.”)
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“We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” An officer in U.S. Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote the message sent last Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts.
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