Dancing With The Wars

All Iran has to do to win its war of independence against the US and Israel is for its regime to survive and outlast the war while inflicting maximum financial and economic pain on its enemies to pressure Trump to end his unwinnable war of aggression.

If the US doesn't invade… https://t.co/FR7EFVOwHk

— David Pyne 🇺🇸 (@AmericaFirstCon) March 15, 2026

All Iran has to do to win its war of independence against the US and Israel is for its regime to survive and outlast the war while inflicting maximum financial and economic pain on its enemies to pressure Trump to end his unwinnable war of aggression.

If the US doesn't invade Iran with half a million troops, the US can win every battle but it will lose the war just like we did in Vietnam. Trump dodged the draft four times to avoid serving in the Vietnam War so it appears he never learned this important lesson.

The purpose (i.e., excuse) for the Vietnam war was to make North Vietnam leave South Vietnam alone. By Pyne’s logic, we should have invaded and occupied North Korea in the 50’s. The lesson of WWII was: don’t attack us, or we’ll pulverize you. North Korea never attacked us. Nor did North Vietnam.

That said, his analysis of the Iran situation is not wrong. Except Iran didn’t attack us, either. And the lesson of Vietnam is: don’t start something you can’t finish, and that the people don’t support. So 500,000 troops aren’t going into Iran without Congressional approval. And that ain’t comin’.

Which the White House seems to understand:

FOX NEWS: If this disruption lasts for months, can the US economy absorb the shock without a recession?

HASSETT: First of all, it's not going to last for months. President Trump's team has briefed us that it's going to be 4 to 6 weeks beginning 2 weeks ago, and that we're ahead… pic.twitter.com/7gn6tB7RDH

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026

FOX NEWS: If this disruption lasts for months, can the US economy absorb the shock without a recession?

HASSETT: First of all, it's not going to last for months. President Trump's team has briefed us that it's going to be 4 to 6 weeks beginning 2 weeks ago, and that we're ahead of schedule. And if it did last for a long time, it wouldn't really do a lot of harm to the US economy

So we'll be through by summer? And Lockheed stocks will soar like the eagle? (And six weeks is a month and a half, so it’s still “months.”) And oil prices probably won’t start to fall until November.

Dance, little man! Dance!