The writer of this piece, David Frum, once coined the "Axis of Evil" for his boss Bush. It takes me back over 20 years ago to the Iraq invasion days. The vile spew of the National Review in the run-up to war. Bill Kristol, Norman Podhoretz and Frum, et. al. All completely beholden to Israel. And the forever war they helped ignite is still burning.

One could argue that Frum's neoconservative propaganda over the last quarter century has done as much to harm America as Trump has. One could also argue that Frum directly helped strengthen and legitimize certain aspects of the current MAGA movement. That some people would continue to give him legitimacy just because he has pivoted to keeping his career afloat by being anti-Trump is quite concerning. Much of America's current media apparatus is regurgitated and recycled from yesteryear. I am thankful my memory is still strong enough to remember it all from the first go-round.

Thank you for posting this.

Half of Graham Platner's extended family is Jewish, so if he is a Nazi that makes his Thanksgiving dinner table conversations rather intriguing to speculate upon.

I for one just hope that he's not a Fetterman disguised in sheep's clothing.

I'm sure many of you remember that after 9-11, citizens gathered by the hundreds in their respective cities in Iran and held candlelight vigils for the American dead.

At that point in time, Iran could've been steered towards a more moderate political posture, and would have been a cold, yet willing partner against expanding Russian influence in the region, but the neoconservative Bush administration (and many Democrats) decided to listen to Israel and designate Iran as a key part of the notorious "axis of evil".

And now here we are. And it all could've been avoided.

Yes. I still reside in North Dakota but spend more of my time up the Red River in Winnipeg. I'm a part-time Pegger and thus an honorary Canadian. Gives good perspective with just a nondescript, 4 hour drive.

Although I am not very well-versed in these types of politics, I do believe that Barney Frank has a thinly veiled concern for the end of American political support for Israel. I believe that is the main reason why he supports Janet Mills over Platner.

Truly, for Frank (who is Jewish and has a history of deep support by pro-Israelis) and many other senior members of the political spectrum, refusing to support Israel and to be openly critical of its current actions and behaviors after nearly 50 years of overwhelming support is "embracing an agenda that goes beyond what's politically acceptable."

As a whole, Americans have a disturbing tendency to elevate and celebrate and humanize people whose job or goal it is to dehumanize, subdue, conquer or kill.

Excessive American hubris has gotten in the way of any major strategic military victory since 1945. All this hubris has done is slowly erode America's once seemingly unassailable foundation of progressive political, social and economic principles and philosophies. In contrast, during roughly the same timeframe China has pulled itself from the mire of an extended era of weakness and humiliation and seized upon global hopes of a better future- hopes of a better future that America once claimed as exclusively its own.

America = Leopold II

Trump is a nihilist and nihilists do not have goals. Their endgame is simply defined as the achievement of the means. The more chaos and destruction, the better.

That map above is intriguing, but money isn't everything. Is there a map that rates states according to people's sense of happiness or well-being? I currently live in eastern North Dakota and it's pretty satisfying here (and even moreso just across the border in Minnesota) although we are ranked 47th in supposed ROI as shown on the map above.

Israel formed from the original terrorist entity in the Middle East. Even Albert Einstein recognized that all the way back in late 1948 when he either wrote or signed onto letters condemning what would eventually become the fascist, ethnosupremacist Likud party:

"Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.

The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world, if correctly informed as to Mr. Begin's political record and perspectives, could add their names and support to the movement he represent."

"I fail to see the difference?"

Perhaps you need to read between the lines.

Before I became Muslim I studied Buddhism for almost three years in Nepal and Bhutan. Late 90s. Memorable years. I remember some sort of lesson to this effect: The difference between the edge of a cliff and the abyss is a thin, imperceptible line: on one side of it gravity safeguards your life while on the other side it irreversibly pulls you to your doom.

"- If true, this is a war we lost."

Not quite. Because if Trump followed through on his psychopathic, genocidal threats, America would have ceased to exist, because when you lose your own soul, you lose absolutely everything.

Many men who do not believe in Hell seek to create one on the Earth.

'A whole civilization will die tonight'

Or perhaps two civilizations. The entire notion of what America was, is, and could've been will likely be destroyed tonight. And the Iranians will be proven 100% right when they repeatedly identified America as "the Great Satan"

Wouldn't that increase the chances of a "lone wolf" serviceman (or servicewoman) taking matters into his or her own hands if he/she is on some military base with a personal firearm and then commanded by certain individuals in positions of power to follow blatantly unlawful orders and he/she feels that there's no reasonable option to express disagreement or outright refusal?

The number one pariah state in the world is no longer Iran/North Korea. It is America and/or Israel.

Zionist apologists are so cute when they use inclusive words like "we" as if ordinary Americans and their ethno-supremacist, pedophiliac supporting, psychopathic baby killers have ANYTHING in common.

#2 "There's something darkly insane about these people."

You don't have to believe in God to believe in the Devil.

You could almost see Stephen Miller's puppet hand moving underneath the back of Trump's jacket.
And Netanyahu's puppet hand underneath Miller's.
And Satan's puppet hand underneath Netanyahu's.

62 years and 5 months old. That magic bullet sure does get around.

The true endgame for Israel and America was never about anything that they say in public. The endgame is simply institutional destruction and social chaos. Destruction and chaos. Just like anything done by the Trump regime domestically. Essentially WWIII is playing out as a battle between agents of chaos vs. agents of order.

I guess in a nutshell, the pernicious cults of Zionism and MAGA only care about order as it pertains to themselves. "Order and stability for me but not for thee"

Chaos and pain. That is all Trump has ever brought and will ever bring to the table.

Well, we already have robots that have replaced First Ladies ...