by Tom Luongo, Tom Luongo:

“You either die a hero, or you live just long enough to become the villain.”
— Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight.

Too many people are trying to downplay last weekend’s response from Iran to Israel’s attack on their consulate in Damascus as some kind of “Wag the Dog” event. While I do agree there was a certain level of theatrics in the entire scene, to think this wasn’t a major geopolitical event is the worst kind of cynical cope.

Usually that type of detached cynicism is reserved to Millennials, but when I see folks in my age cohort doing this I become far more worried that everyone’s in denial to a dangerous degree. I was contacted by Sputnik News to discuss the Biden administration’s options and potential response via sanctions on Iran among other things.