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  1. Requalified. Progress is monotonic change. This is a positive development. The end of quid pro Bos, the end of a legacy. Probably not. The Democrats are already colluding with the Iranian regime, and the Europeans are probably not far behind.

  2. This part sounds like a stretch:
    “For the Iranian regime, his removal from power by forces allied with Iran’s bitter enemies was arguably a greater loss that the loss of terror master Qassem Soleimani and his lieutenants …”

    I’m reminded of the joke whose punchline goes “First prize: one week vacation in Cleveland. Second prize: two week vacation in Cleveland.”

  3. Finally, some hopeful news from the region.

    It actually makes me “feel” better. I’m tired of disliking people who hate me/us.

    I’m even tired of tracing out [though no one ever asked me to] the moral logic of nihilists, both national and international, and openly stating the shocking secular conclusions that follow [i.e., the ‘moral other’ business I’m always going on about] from their announced premises in the hope of knocking some sense into them.

    They are not paying any attention to what I say anyway; and if they were, they would not be shocked out of advocating what they are advocating, no matter what alarming consequences I claimed it was that followed for themselves from what they had said regarding others.

    But in a moment like this, just imagine what a social world with less resentment, envy, malice and hate would be like.

  4. I know Turks who would be thrilled to see Erdogan fall, and I know expat Iranians who would cry with joy if the ayatollah’s regime collapsed. We can hope.

  5. “I know Turks who would be thrilled to see Erdogan fall, and I know expat Iranians who would cry with joy if the ayatollah’s regime collapsed.” Kate

    To paraphrase, Jefferson, Daniel Webster and R.A. Heinlein;
    “There are two kinds of people; those who wish to control others and those who have no such desire.”

    In the larger scheme of things, nothing will change until those who have no desire to control others make it a capital crime with a mandatory death sentence to work for or advocate through coercion, the control of other people… “for their own good”.

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis

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