How to Lose

When I was in high school 75 years ago, I was taught that Robert E. Lee had been a brilliant general, while U. S. Grant had been a bumbler who prevailed only because he had a large army. 

Today historians are apt to say that Robert E.  Lee enjoyed two or three brilliant if rash tactical victories early in the Civil War. Then he invaded the North twice (really bad strategy) and got clobbered, and then he spent the rest of the war skillfully retreating from Grant while the Army of Northern Virginia dwindled to nothing.  

With Lincoln, Sherman snd Sheridan, Grant planned to reduce his opponent to nothing at all. 

Grant used his assets: the railroads, the telegraph, a constant stream of new recruits, his ability to write clear, definite orders, etc.  

In short, Grant started with a winning strategy, employing five Union armies at once.  Something like Eisenhower in World War Two. Not like Trump's Iran war.  Trump has no strategy. 

Imagine starting a war without a strategy.  Trump is an idiot. 

1, 2, 3,

 Be the first one in your block

To come home in a box

--Country Joe

Schroedinger's War

I heard Catherine Rampell use the term "Schroedinger's War". She was talking about the way MAGAs refer to our savaging of Iran.  MAGAs call what is happening there a war and (at the same time) insist that it is not a war. 

The purpose of insisting that we are at war and we are not at war (at the same time) is to illustrate a point in quantum mechanics and, no, it isn't. 

Watching Trump stagger from one diction error to another demonstrates how much his brain has turned into fried noodles.

("Shroedinger's cat" is a famous physics word problem about a cat that is alive and dead at the same time.)

Tree Pollen

I'm allergic to tree pollen. Right now I am coughing like Hank Williams in the Tower of Song.  

Modern War

 A modern war is one in which you hope that both sides lose.

What?

El Supremo has, at last, found his calling: making Netanyahu's dreams come true. 

Also, destroying Iran distracts from El Supremo's history of pedophilia. 

But the media ignore the fact that the Saudis, Iran's hated rival for power in West Asia, gave whispering Jared Kushner two billion dollars to do what?

Improv War

In a war El Supremo improvises and does whatever comes to mind. Soon he loses interest. He makes up an imaginary outcome. In his rotting mind the inhabitants of the country he is crushing love him so much that they overthrow themselves. They erect a giant marble bust of his head. They rename their country for him.  They beg him to have sex with their children. 

Death in Iran

 As evidence begins to emerge of our president's pedophilia, he has reacted by starting a war with Iran. Indivisible will be protesting Trump's war at five today in Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa in Sonoma County.

Iran

 How many Iranians must die because El Supremo is a pedophile?