October 7

I’ve been a little busy lately, and it’s no surprise that I have lost track of time. Still, we ought to mark the anniversary of the brutal attack of last year, when perfectly innocent people were killed by Hamas in what amounts to an act of blood magic, an attempt to conjure a final reckoning with Israel and probably an attempt to bring about the end of the world— to provoke the End Times according to their particular theory of Islamic eschatology. 

Reportedly Iran tested an atomic weapon on the 5th of this year. Definitely there was a seismic event there. 

7 comments:

E Hines said...

And, shockingly, Joe Biden is desperate to preserve Iran's nuclear weapons program, to the point that he's trying to order Netanyahu to not attack that/those facilities.

Eric Hines

Assistant Village Idiot said...

Michael Ledeen in the early 00's thought we should have gone to war with Iran instead of both Afghanistan and Iraq. Could be.

Thomas Doubting said...

Early on, some thought establishing ourselves in both Iraq and Afghanistan might have been the prelude to a pincer on Iran, but it doesn't seem to have come to anything.

Thomas Doubting said...

Seismic event in Iran, Oct 5:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nwr9/executive

The technical report on its origin says its depth was 10 km underground, +/- 1.9 km, so 8-12 km / 5+ miles down.

douglas said...

Early on, some thought establishing ourselves in both Iraq and Afghanistan might have been the prelude to a pincer on Iran, but it doesn't seem to have come to anything."
Yes, or an attempt to hem them in, but ineffective at best. Certainly, if they felt threatened, it only emboldened them rather than dissuaded them. Actual head to head war with Iran would be an ugly business.

Anonymous said...

Your reality is as usual fbi cia influenced and wrong. Khamas was fighting idf militias. Apaches and tanks killed most of the eunarmed combatants on oct 7. They even counted 200 khamas as idf civilians. But there ar eno civilians in the idf, due to their conscripting process. Much of their society is militarized. They have all you fooled. Makes for easy slave farming.

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