Well, howdy there internet people? Let's bow again. So today we are going to talk a little bit about what is going on in the Middle East. We're going to talk about what occurred, what the response may be, the political situation at home,

whether or not this is going to cause things to widen,

so on and so forth,

and just kind of run through it all because there's a lot,

there's a lot going on, there's even more speculation that not all of it is great so

we're just going to kind of run through it all okay so if you have no idea what I'm talking about,

you miss the news.

There was a strike on an installation

that had US troops present.

Unlike all of the previous ones in this strike,

three US service members were killed.

The strike occurred in Jordan.

There is a big difference between,

wow, that's an annoying hit on the installation. Wow. We had to activate our C-ROM, you know, something like that and and killing three US service members. There's a big difference.

The media is faithfully reporting that it was Iran.

Was it Iran?

No, not really.

It was one of their groups. Does that matter in this case? It was one of their groups does that matter in this case it was one of

the groups they support one of their non-state actors does that matter in this

case no not really. It mattered before. That distinction of, oh, that wasn't us. You know, Iran

sitting there denying it, as they are in this case that mattered before because no

US service members were killed that distinction really doesn't matter

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