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This sh** is out of control.

The Wall Street Journal just released an op-ed called "An Urgent Need to Contain Turkey." Subtitle: "If the Iranian Regime Falls, Beware Ankara's Regional Influence."

It's echoing a former Israeli prime minister, who let us know a few days ago that Turkey "is the new Iran."

Turkey, a NATO member, is now the new Iran.

I am not looking forward to when you and I have to endure, in 2029: "Sure, everybody knows the Iran war was a fiasco, but there was no way we could have known that even though everyone tried to explain it to us. But it's urgent that we go after Turkey. That will be completely different. Not on board? You're an America hater!"

I wrote on my other list today that my Twitter feed has become almost intolerable, overrun by talking-point so-called arguments in favor of this Iran operation.

It's all one-liners that very suggestible people heard on TV:

(1) "They've been at war with us for 47 years" (in response to this one, Glenn Greenwald correctly comes back with: we've been in a war with Iran for 47 years but no prior American presidents remembered to wage that war against Iran or even mention to the American public that we've been in a decades-long war with Iran until about six days ago when Israel wanted to attack them?);

(2) Iran would have had a nuclear bomb two weeks from now if we hadn't acted (I don't hear this one so much because nobody really believes it);

(3) although we've been at war for 47 years, this is not actually a war and we shouldn't call it that because Speaker Mike Johnson told us not to, even though if anyone did these things to the United States we would of course describe them as acts of war, and even though up until the Iran intervention we all agreed that Speaker Mike Johnson was a lying weasel.

For those of you who joined me during Covid, these are the equivalent of wearing three masks and a HAZMAT suit to the grocery store.

Ronald Reagan did the right thing in 1983 when the US Marine barracks was bombed and he got out of there, though of course Lindsey Graham and assorted other lunatics are implying that Reagan -- Reagan! -- was a wimp because he didn't respond with a rampage throughout the region.

You will have to forgive my impertinence -- I have a habit of asking questions that send a hush through cocktail parties -- but why the hell was there a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut to begin with?

"USA! USA!" does not count as an answer.

None of this benefits the average American. That's not to say absolutely nobody benefits, but you and I are not among the beneficiaries, I regret to inform you, dear reader.

Influencer "Will Chamberlain" did try to argue today that the U.S. government's empire really does benefit the average American, as opposed to being the anchor and albatross and suppressor of prosperity that it obviously is.

"American primacy benefits *all Americans*," said Chamberlain. "Our ability to negotiate advantageous trade deals, keep the dollar as the reserve currency, etc relies on primacy. Without those things the average standard of living would go way down."

Here's a more accurate summary, courtesy of ol' Woods here:

Our government runs an empire it can't afford, which means it has to inflate the money, which means it has to offshore the effects of the inflation of the money, which it does through the reserve status of the dollar, which it in turn maintains through an empire, which it can't afford, so it inflates the money....

And around and around it goes.

Thankfully, I'm spending the weekend at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in lovely Concord, where I'll enjoy the pleasant fellowship of people who haven't absolutely lost their minds, and who don't speak to me in slogans they heard from Ben Shapiro.

Your homework assignment while I'm gone is to get a copy of Pat Buchanan's book A Republic, Not an Empire, and read it.

While I'm gone, let me remind you of an upcoming deadline.

The background, in the form of a real example:

A commercial appraisal company supercharged its business by having AI gather, organize, and analyze comparable property data that an appraiser would normally have to spend hours hunting down. It gathers data from several sources, and product a coherent report with narrative sections and figures in minutes, saving 8-10 hours per report.

Imagine the equivalent being applied to your business, or to your personal life.

Yes, this technology really can act as a personal or administrative assistant to you -- you send it text messages and it can perform tasks for you.

We're talking about daily reports, inbox summaries, news summaries from your preferred sites and according to your interests, follow-up reminders, website monitoring, and indeed, personal research assistants: ask it to file things, summarize things, look things up, remember things, run tasks for you, etc.

That sounds amazing to most people -- and you can reclaim MANY hours for yourself this way -- but they have no idea how to make it do these things, and people who do know how seem like magicians.

Well, Woods World is about to learn how to be that kind of magician, and since you're part of Woods World, you should be part of this, too, especially during the early-bird period that is rapidly coming to an end (the bonuses alone will have you salivating):
 
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