The heat is on: Options for deterrence in the Middle East
Peloni: It would take very little effort to provide some course correction to the currently abysmal anti-US US policy in the Middle East, but as Dyer explains, this would require a different administration, and one not inclined to making US involvement more prolonged than needed to achieve the tasks at hand.
I found her use of the term Petunia to describe the current ‘administration’ in Washington to be instructive, because no matter how you might describe it otherwise, the current anomaly controlling the levers of power in the American Empire is altogether a pervasion of every intent or expectation of govt which was ever anticipated by either the Constitution or even the current or past renditions of what comprised the American people. Petunia has caused a great deal of damage to the prestige and influence of the US in the region and the world in a very short time, and that would be in regards to America’s allies and adversaries, both. It has cost many lives, and will continue to do so til something more competent and American might replace Petunia, its corruption, and its corrupting influences.
To re-seize the initiative and get deterrence going.
J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, August 2, 2024
As usual, late-breaking news demands to be included in this article. I’m not going to rewrite the piece to reflect any potential change in likelihood, this weekend, that a response to a major, concerted attack on Israel – and very possibly U.S. interests as well – may shortly be in order. But the tea leaves seem to read that way.
