“Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon . . . They want to make a deal, and so I’m going to put Marco ]Rubio] over there and we’ll see how that works out. We’re really focused on this one [Iran] right now. We’ve got plenty of time, but Cuba’s ready — after 50 years . . . I’ve been watching it for 50 years, and it’s fallen right into my lap because of me, it’s fallen, but it’s nevertheless fallen right into the lap. And we’re doing very well.”
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47 like 45 proves common sense ain’t so common
As the U.S.- and Israel-led war continues to expand, its justifications have grown thinner and its timeline more elusive. At the same time, the Trump administration appears increasingly eager to rein in unfavorable coverage. During a Pentagon press briefing on March 13, 2026, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth urged journalists to adopt more favorable framing of the conflict, telling reporters, “Here’s a real headline for you, for an actual patriotic press… ‘Iran shrinking, going underground.’” Hegseth’s quip implies that coverage of Iran which questions the administration’s actions or portrays them in an unflattering light is somehow unpatriotic.
Radical empathy: A force beyond war
The last embrace
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President Declares War on Democracy and Iran
I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this one: the gains both China and Russia have made at US expense. While the war has had costs for both those countries, on balance it has benefited both more.
The American Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced that American and Israeli warplanes would soon gain total control of Iranian airspace allowing them to deliver “death and destruction from the sky all day long.” Think about it–that is what America will mean to the people of Iran—as it already means to Afghanistan, Libya, and Iraq–“death and destruction from the sky all day long.” Do we want our country to strike fear in the people of the world? Where is our vaunted Christian faith? Where is our humanity?
A speech by a president who really wished to avoid more Middle East wars