Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some preach the pain, some diaphras, the way of knowing which way it's going,

or for the best, expect the worst, some more of the pain. Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Monday March 14th, 2022. I am John Poghorik's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor, a greenwald hype. Hi, John.

Senior writer Christine Rose of high Christine. Hi, John and executive editor, no excuse me. Sorry associate editor, no, Rothman. Hi Noah.

Hi, John. You should tell everybody when we're recording this the day after daily savings time.

Right. Everybody knows where we're at.

I have to tell you anytime Noah has a new puppy so he was up all night. My wife is on a business trip. So I have, you know, I had to get my son off to school, walk the dog, get my son breakfast, get the dog breakfast.

And of course, an hour like it's, you know, accelerated time because of the lost hour. So yeah, there's a lot of vagary going on here, but I don't think there's a lot of a great going on in the world as it stands.

We heard on Friday that the administration had somehow seen reality. I don't think it came out of the administration, but that, but that the the revival of the Iran deal to JCPOA had to be tabled and was being tabled as even though supposedly the deal was was completed.

There were some issues, the main issue of course being that we are now effectively at war with the guarantor of the Iran deal, Russia.

And then Saturday night, I believe the Iranians fired on to, to US sites in Iraq, a consulate and a, and some kind of a base in air bill.

Additionally, it took I think 15 hours for the State Department to issue a statement saying it is unacceptable to fire on our positions in Iraq, 15 hours, because of course they're panic, because they probably still are deluding themselves that they can, that they can make this the steel that is now dead.

are helping them along because I think you'll notice this isn't a very big story at the moment

and when Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, went on the Sunday talk shows, nobody asked

him about the attack on air bill. So they are getting soft, the soft soap from, but I guess it'll

and that'll end today when there is a White House press briefing and I assume that Peter Ducey

and others will force Gen Socki to inform the world that you're not supposed to fire missiles at our

consulate. But I think I would just pose frame it this way and that we could sort of get to a general

discussion that we were talking last week about whether or not we're in a sort of new world and

that a lot of people are still living in the old world that we cross the line into this new world

when Russia crossed the border into Ukraine. And I think it's pretty clear that the idea that

these negotiations over re-entering the Iran deal were very much a feature of the world before

Russia marched into Ukraine and that this is not a plausible possible whether or not it's a wise

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