Monday Mess

On to The Great Salvation of 1976's last (written) chapter this week. This chapter deals with new hopes in the spring, infrastructure building and planning for elections in the fall. We're on page 110 of 135 (that's in MS Word). 

We should have a couple of articles out this week, one in 19FortyFive, maybe something in Moscow, and one on Substack. We'll be dumping our old War on Terror articles there all this month. A few pieces about Iraq, the Ethiopians in Somalia, etc etc. 

Over at the New York Post we see...a lot of stuff about Meghan Markle. On Behalf of the United States, this blog would like to apologize to HRH, the Royal Family and the British people. I guess this about settles things between our two nations [It settles nothing. You kept arriving late to the wars-Ed]. You know Charles isn't Harry's real dad, right? [Why you cheeky bastard-Ed]. What's Harry gonna do when Meghan has an affair with her yoga instructor?

Back to Killer Andy C. The Democrat Senate Majority leader says he should resign. The guv says he ain't going nowhere. Resignation seems farfetched, but this blog predicts he won't run for gov again in 2022. The great Robert Stacy McCain thinks this is all a conspiracy hatched by the Kamala Harris camp. A fellow North American said the same to us the other day. McCain is going off of Ace's speculation, and both Ace and RSM are always right...But Andy's best strategy is to bow out now, make his comeback in 2024 and run in the primaries against Harris. She'll have a couple of years in office by then, and a record to run against.

We know a lot of people who fear Willie Brown's girlfriend. But she had no support in the Dem primaries. None, zero, zilch, nada. There is no Harris cheering section within the Democrat party. When she takes office later this year her position will be analogous to that of Andrew Johnson in 1865.

Jury selection for the trial of Officer Derek Chauvin begins today. Powerline reports Minneapolis is 'bracing for the worst'. It doesn't matter. If Chauvin is acquitted there will be rage riots. If Chauvin is convicted there will be celebratory riots. Those interested in legal analysis can do no better than Powerline, as they're lawyers out of Minnesota. Last year we called Chauvin a murderer. Well, it's more complicated than that, isn't it? A manslaughterer? 

We were asked yesterday to reco a book on The Israel War of Independence. We really don't know one, as for our own writing we've relied upon military history compendiums. We do suggest  Benny Morris, who has written a book on the subject. Our own, Israel at War, goes into the '48 war as well. 

Those studying the Arab-Israeli Wars will return again and again to one salient fact: Arabs can't fight. The Egyptian army was incompetent. One can't help but shake one's head. In fact, after the '67 debacle STAVKA summoned their Egyptian counterparts to Moscow and read them the riot act. The Egyptians replied, 'You don't understand. We've studied the Red Army in WWII. We've lured the Jews into the Sinai. Now we wait for winter.' Don't forget to tip your waitresses, folks.

Actually the Six Day War is kind of dull. The Yom Kippur war has all the interesting action, tense cabinet meetings, tactical disasters, etc etc.