I wondered when you might touch on the….war. And I like how you approached the essential point through a totally unrelated topic. [Well, that’s how I took this, and I don’t know if I’m an outlier here.]
I guess that in the cricket-world, this type of selector-vanity impacts more on us? I don’t know….
The question of who needs the off-ramp more we can leave to another time - if events do not overtake us first.
Thank you, Peter. Yes, that was the through line. The trouble with this war (above and beyond the trouble with this war) is that the news is the same every day. Not at all obvious how anyone — let alone me — can add value at this time.
Why exactly does the Shiite clerical establishment have such animus against Israel - I mean in comparison to the apparently quiescent Sunnis. (I know, “quiescent” is stretching it a bit.) I mean what exactly was KhOmenei’s original ideology? But also that, perhaps, the 1980s war with Iraq fed insecurity?
Put another way (and I’m only thinking aloud here, not expecting a response), if the Shah had remained, and lived, and Iraq had still invaded, I think it just possible that Iran’s nuclear ambitions would have been amply catered for….
I wondered when you might touch on the….war. And I like how you approached the essential point through a totally unrelated topic. [Well, that’s how I took this, and I don’t know if I’m an outlier here.]
I guess that in the cricket-world, this type of selector-vanity impacts more on us? I don’t know….
The question of who needs the off-ramp more we can leave to another time - if events do not overtake us first.
Good, Jack.
Thank you, Peter. Yes, that was the through line. The trouble with this war (above and beyond the trouble with this war) is that the news is the same every day. Not at all obvious how anyone — let alone me — can add value at this time.
Roots…Roots.
Perhaps the following has occurred to people:
Why exactly does the Shiite clerical establishment have such animus against Israel - I mean in comparison to the apparently quiescent Sunnis. (I know, “quiescent” is stretching it a bit.) I mean what exactly was KhOmenei’s original ideology? But also that, perhaps, the 1980s war with Iraq fed insecurity?
Put another way (and I’m only thinking aloud here, not expecting a response), if the Shah had remained, and lived, and Iraq had still invaded, I think it just possible that Iran’s nuclear ambitions would have been amply catered for….