It's Tuesday, May 5, 2026.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The way the world works is something many of us don't have to think about until all of a sudden we have to think about it.

It's quite easy and natural for human beings to be engaged in our everyday activities,

and we don't pause often to think about the bigger meaning of things until we have to.

Sometimes there are big developments in the world that simply demand our attention,

and even so, it's amazing how many Americans can simply move on as if nothing's happening and they basically exhibit no inclination to think about it at any level under the surface

at all. So I know that's not true. As you're listening to the briefing, I want us to look a little

deeper at a couple of things that are just now inescapable as matters of our attention.

And the state of the world is one way to talk about what is on our mind today.

And let's just say that we have to start in the Strait of Hormuz.

We have to start with the apparent stall in the military action taken by the United States and Israel against Iran. And we're looking at a situation that

is quite puzzling to most Americans. Now, it is interesting to see that you have all the media

coming out and saying the vast majority of Americans are opposed to the war. That is not all that

unusual. And at least a part of what I think President Trump has to be thinking is that the American

people often respond this way.

But how they think about this kind of military action when it happens and how they think

about it later are often two different things.

Or to put it another way, when it is seen in retrospect that an action undertaken, a military action like this,

when it is understood that it led to a good result, no matter how that's defined, it tends to be

remembered quite differently than something that ends with a quagmire or with a question mark.

Americans do not like military action that ends with a question mark.

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