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ANALYSIS: ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

CONRAD BLACK: Trump will get what he wants in Iran by negotiation or by force.

The US president has clearly from time to time restrained the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu from returning to full-scale hostilities. There has been exaggerated emphasis on the partial Congressional elections in the United States in November. It is not at all clear that the administration will suffer a setback in those elections, but it does not much matter if it does. Except for Franklin D. Roosevelt, every two-term president in American history since Theodore Roosevelt, who retired in 1909, has had to deal with a Congress in the hands of his opponents in the last two years. None of them had a veto overridden in that time and the consequences of the Democrats regaining control of either or even both houses of Congress will not be significant, especially given their propensity for utterly absurd policy options, including a return to open borders, higher taxes, massive regulation of business, and the imposition of hysterical concerns about the impact on climate of the use of fossil fuels.

Trump has just successfully purged his party of malcontents in the Senate and House of Representatives and not more than four or five presidents in the country’s history have been as preeminent as he is in the politics of the country at this stage in his administration. He has a blank cheque to return to combat and pummel Iran into submission, or to receive Iran’s submission without a return to war. He will not make a bad peace and is in a position to extract a satisfactory one. The time has come.

But the road along the way sure is bumpy. I wrote two columns on this yesterday. The first one (here) was overtaken by events four minutes after it went live. And the second one (here) was a virtual laundry list of conflicting claims.

THE RACE-HUSTLERS ARE HAVING A BAD WEEK:

IF AN IMMIGRANT ISN’T A NET TAX CONTRIBUTOR, THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING ALLOWED TO STAY:

ENSHITTIFICATION STRIKES AGAIN:

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OPEN THREAD: Thursday’s on.

UPDATE: I put this up early by accident, but what the hell.

(Bumped).