Editor’s Note: We like to kick off Monday morning with what contributing savant Arrias likes to term his “Weekly Article.” It is stimulating stuff and there is a lot to talk about. There were some troubling issues in his essay “What Next?” The one in point is the culmination of more than 40 years of the continuing troubles with the Iranians. Some of us were offshore there when this chapter of it opened up. For them, seeing the comments about Tehran nearing nuclear capability was sobering. It suggests this could be a time of imminent trouble being played out in front of an orchestrated policy of continuing national emergencies. The intent of that is equally mysterious.

To assuage some of the current angst, we have been compiling and editing some manuscripts that go all the way back to that ancient period. It is useful to remember that there have been other ominous times and inglorious events. 1979 was a year with some of them. Of course, we only arrived in that historic year by passing through the unpleasantness of American urban life in the late 1960s. This one has some of the same echoes of that time, but could be a little different.

We thought we would do some of the letters flying about in an attempt to demonstrate that it is not the well-water at Refuge Farm that is responsible for the general mood. It seems more widespread. Let’s start here:

Stevensburg, VA: “You keep going on about local events in solar energy production. Do something if you think it is wrong, inefficient, or ill-conceived. Your crowd has ignored the Afghan thing since the abrupt and embarrassing pull-out. You haven’t breathed a word on what the Taliban is doing with the billions of dollars of weapons- twice what we have given to Ukraine- and the real possibility that the Taliban will overthrow the Pakistani government and gain access to their nuclear arsenal? Frank.”

Editorial Panel: Frank, like Arrias, Socotra House is interested in the post bi-polar world in which newly-nuclear states like North Korea, Iran and others will vie for self interest in terms of weapons of mass destruction. That includes potential uncertainty in place like Pakistan and others with leaderships without long term experience in atomic command and control. But we are opposed to those black solar panels on Rt. 3.”

Marlow in Coastal Empire:

“The seas are Greek, the earth Indian, so that leaves the Chinese . . . . mmmm . . . oh, yeah — with the waves. Better than the winds that the Filipinos got stuck with.

Sorry, but that is all I got — I’m having an Office Space case of the Mondays.”

-Marlow

Osprey, Ann Arbor:

What is Arrias worried about? We aren’t spread thin.

We have fifty thousand millennial elites with Masters degrees in gender studies and racial studies. We can quickly deploy them to Iran Russia and China, to conduct workshops on tolerance and diversity and conflict resolution.

Our Transexual Wing of Air Force and Naval pilots can be deployed to conduct Story Hour in Iran and Saudi Arabia.

We have enough LGBTQ troops to do more damage to Iran and Afghanistan than Alexander the Great’s legions of Macedonian and Greek Homos did in 332 BC.

And China will be crushed by our efficient Lesbian Marine regiments.

Arrias needs to lighten up. We don’t need Military equipment. We need the Federal Reserve to create money. And: We need to create more homos and trannys and advocates of Critical Race Theory.

Osprey

Dear Sir,

We have referred your refined commentary to a staff member under no previous obligation to the US Government and subject to no specific remainder under the provisions of the Unified Code of Military Justice. We will get back to you. Probably.

– Vic

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