President Trump announced that his B-2 Bomber strikes of twelve 30,000 pounds of explosives – the dreaded “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” (MOP) that can penetrate 200 feet into solid rock before exploding – “obliterated” the three sites the Iranians were using to enrich uranium in their push to develop nuclear bombs. Since it was this possibility of the Iranians going nuclear that made them a threat to the US and Israel’s – “they said”! , your Eyewitness wondered whether he could now breathe easier without worrying whether our annual Saharan dust clouds would be bringing a sprinkling of nuclear fallout this year. At a minimum – from looking at old pics of post Hiroshima survivors – his hair and teeth would’ve fallen out!! And he likes those in place, thank you!!
But the Israeli attack on one of those “nuclear sites” the very next day gave him pause. If the nuclear sites were mopped up by the MOPs, why would Israel be attacking them again? To use a possibly anomalous metaphor, wasn’t that like…well…gilding the lily?? Adding insult to injury is standard in wars!! After the US bombing, the Iranians did say they’d moved out their 60% enriched uranium (Uranium gotta get to 90% purity before they can go KABOOM! on their own) to safety. And in any case the MOPs blasts hadn’t penetrated the 600 feet of mountain rock to the enrichment facility. That there were no increased levels of radioactivity was an early tipoff that “Operation Midnight Hammer” mightn’t have been as successful as announced.
But since our folk wisdom declares, “Knock got knock back” what’s ahead for us?? Well for starters, it doesn’t look like Trump’s gonna be getting that Nobel Peace Prize after Pakistan had nominated him for his “intervention” to settle their dust-up with India over Kashmir. The very next day, Pakistan was forced to denounce the US bombing that “constituted a serious violation of international law” and the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)!! India and Modi had already denied Trump had played any role in their ceasefire with Pakistan.
But what about Iran’s response which they’ve promised. Everyone believes them because of their strategic culture and their Shia religion that combines a proud 3000-year-old culture with a willingness to accept suffering for “righteousness”. Your Eyewitness doubts the Iranians gonna be taking on the US directly…no Siree Bob! That would be foolhardy – and fools, the Iranians aren’t!! With Israel being a proxy for the US – or as some say, the (AIPAC) tail that wags the American dog!! – Iran will keep on pounding them with missiles.
We have seen enough will get through their three vaunted antiballistic “Domes” to drive Israelis back into the stone age in a while!!
La Luta continua!!
…from grief to politics
Two months after poor 11-year-old Adrianna drowned in that hotel pool on the West Side, her body was finally laid to rest as she was interred into her grave. No child deserved what happened to her. Here it was, she was taken for an “outing” by her grandmother – which was followed by a most tragic series of unfortunate events that stirred Guyanese across the world.
The pool had no lifeguards; her grandmother left her and her cousins unsupervised; the pool wasn’t drained when she was discovered missing; a false police report was issued of her leaving the hotel; the police mishandled the outraged crowd that gathered; protests, riots etc followed. But the unkindest cut of all was dragging her body across to America for a totally unnecessary second autopsy – and using her body for opposition harangues.
Even her final rites were marred by a confrontation between the grandmother and her aunt and finally by some who turned the occasion into a “wine-down”. Sad.
…Oil Prices
For us in Mudland one good tha is coming out of the mess in the MidEast is an OilPrice forecast, has Brent crude rising to as high as $110 and then settling to $95 in the fourth quarter!!
