Embassy Victory

The Baghdad embassy protest was staged in direct response to our own air strikes against Kateb Hezbollah positions in Iraq and Syria.

Trump has been twisting the screws on Iran for two years now. Embargos are in place, the rial is collapsing, the economy in the dumps. At least a thousand have been killed in anti-regime protests. Abroad Trump has let Saudi Arabia fight a proxy-war in Yemen while the Israelis hammer Iranian positions in Syria. 

Tehran is under enormous pressure right now. Iran is losing badly, and the Ayatollahs are losing face.

Exit question: was the embassy protest a mere protest or were the Iranians trying to seize the embassy a-la 1979 and change the game?

Sometimes You just gotta say, 'This one's for you, Chappie...'

We admit our heart sank when we saw the news about the storming of our embassy in Baghdad yesterday by Kateb* Hezbollah. We're just barely old enough to remember the Iranian Hostage Crises and we feared a Benghazi redux. 

But as the day went on the news got better. Kateb Hezbollah only breached the outer wall. The US Marines stood firm because, well, they're US Marines. A 100 man Marine quick response unit arrived, and by evening we were treated to footage of Apache gunships in the air. 

We're not going anywhere. A great day for Trump. A great day for America.

Where are the Marines? Trump asked and Obama didn't.

Yesterday afternoon Trump was promising quick retaliation against Iran. Sink an oil platform, Mr. President. Pop that Spencer Davis Group tape in the player and do it tonight.

*We checked with our Arabic source, Sarah Abed, and she says Kateb means writer.