129. Nasruddin and the Recipe
Nasruddin’s wife had written out the recipe for Nasruddin’s favorite liver-and onion dish and then she sent him to the market.
“Buy all the ingredients,” she said, “and make sure the liver is fresh.”
Walking home, Nasruddin was daydreaming about the fine dinner he would enjoy when out of nowhere a crow swooped down and attacked him. As Nasruddin defended himself, the crow snatched the liver and flew away with it.
“You accursed creature!” Nasruddin shouted as the crow flew away. “But the joke’s on you: you forgot the recipe. You don’t have any idea how to prepare the dish!”
This Tale is from “Tiny Tales of Nasruddin” by Laura Gibbs. The book is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. © 2019-202The2 Laura Gibbs
Since Trump began mustering his “armada” in the Middle East in the largest buildup since the Iraq war, the administration has run through a number of justifications for the attack on Iran. And it still doesn’t seem to have settled on why the US is now at war.
It began with Trump’s claims that he was sending warships to the Middle East because of Iran’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, which he said had killed 35,000 people (other estimates have been more conservative).
Then it was the Iranian nuclear programme, which US special envoy Steve Witkoff claimed had reconstituted itself since it was “obliterated” last summer and could allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon within a week.
Then it was Iran’s ballistic weapons programme, which Trump claimed could soon deliver a strike not just against US interests in the region, but also against the US itself. He didn’t provide evidence, and US intelligence estimates had said the opposite: that Tehran wouldn’t have that capability for at least a decade.
Most recently, it was the warning that Iran was planning for an imminent strike, which Trump said was not linked to the negotiations at all. — Trump Administration Reasons For Going To War With Iran by Andrew Roth
This is what President Trump said on Tuesday 3 March yet the missiles keep flying out of Iran. The man spent too much time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), critics and analysts have noted that Trump’s political style—marked by spectacle, confrontation, and blurred reality—mirrors WWE’s kayfabe tradition, where entertainment and reality intertwine.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday boasted that US-Israeli strikes had “knocked out” most of Iran’s military, while denying that Israel had forced him into launching the war that has engulfed the Middle East.
Trump however offered no firm plan for Iran, saying possible leaders eyed by the US had been killed and admitting that a replacement for slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei could be just as bad.
The 79-year-old Republican has faced criticism for conflicting messages about his justifications and aims after launching the region’s biggest conflict in more than two decades.
“Just about everything’s been knocked out,” Trump said as he met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, answering his first questions from reporters since the strikes began on Saturday.
“They have no navy, it’s been knocked out. They have no air force. It’s been knocked out. They have no air detection, that’s been knocked out. Their radar has been knocked out.”
I did a local shopping trip this morning with breakfast at an almost local restaurant. That was Sandy’s in Sunizona which is 12 miles south of my Park. Then stopped at Dollar General on the way back. Got into my space and hooked up then also dumped holding tanks.
Yesterday Erik and I did a different walk. My friend kaBLOONIE took us up to Cochise Stronghold where the campground was closed but there were roads and trails around the campground that we could walk. There were a lot of boondockers along the roads that we walked so the closed campground has not been that much of a inconvenience for them. Erick met Q.T.π , kaBLOONIE’s, dog which is a small poodle mix that did not like Erik much at first but they got along great during the walk. Erik also met 3-4 other dog while on the walk and behaved himself just great. It was more climbing than I have been doing and by the time we finished I could feel it in my legs.