Out on a Limb, but Unmoved: Trump Will Finish the Job in Iran › American Greatness
Roger Kimball
I am out on a limb. The clock is ticking. On Wednesday, I wrote in my new Substack column that I thought it unlikely that “the ‘negotiations’ or (to describe what is happening more accurately) the grandstanding and playing for time by Iran will not result in an affidavit of surrender that is acceptable to President Trump.”
If that is the case, and given that the U.S. Senate is making noises about enacting a War Powers resolution aimed at “forcing Donald Trump to end the war in Iran unless he receives congressional authorization to continue it,” I suspect that hostilities will resume quite soon. Today is Wednesday. The next sleepy news day is likely Friday, May 22. Look for the short, sharp shock then or over the weekend.
Friday has come and gone. Do I feel like revising the timetable or even adjusting my prediction that hostilities will resume?
As to the first, not really. It’s Memorial Day weekend here in the States, which means that it is a long weekend. If something kinetic (I love that Greek-inspired euphemism) is going to happen in the near term, I believe that it will happen now, taking “now” in the generous sense we all accord to historical happenings.
There are both intrinsic and what we might call extrinsic reasons for this.
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