News Weakly - 3/7/2026

The Trump I Expected
The President and Israel joined forces to strike at Tehran in a preemptive attack to remove threats against Israel. It's another "show of force" that has marked Trump's latest term, including a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities (June, 2025), a military assault to capture Venezuelan President Maduro (January, 2026), drug interventions in the Caribbean, attacks in Yemen, threats of military invasion of Greenland, and more. When he was running in 2016, it was a common "joke" that he might use his tagline, "You're fired," to refer to the nation's weapons rather than someone's job, and now ... it looks like he's doing it. (Okay, that "you're fired" joke was only mine, but you get what I mean.) (By way of comparison, historians rate Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama as the two presidents that used the most military force during peacetime.) And ... killing their supreme leader is probably not a good first step toward peace in the region.

No Fear of Peace
Pakistan has declared "open war" against Afghanistan as the two sides escalate the violence. Pakistan has experienced a surge in military attacks since Biden "strategically removed" the U.S. support, leaving the Taliban with billions of dollars worth of weapons to ... share with Pakistan. Don't worry, folks. There seems to be no fear that peace will break out soon.

The "Iran War"
Of course, the initial strike in Iran wasn't a one-off and "peace in the region" isn't really the aim. Now it's the "Iran War."

• Three American F-15s were shot down by friendly fire in Kuwait. Oops! At least the crews survived.
• The first ship sunk by a submarine-fired torpedo since World War II occurred when an American sub sank an Iranian warship.
• Oil prices are spiking as Iran expands the fighting to other places, including killing 4 American soldiers in Kuwait.

Just to list a few items. It just gets better and better. Here's my problem. No one seems to know what the endgame is. What's the point, the purpose? How will they know when to stop? I can't figure it out.

Terrorism
A new report is out about the danger of rising sea level from global climate change. The report says they missed something and it turns out that a 3 foot rise in sea level could kill over 100 million people worldwide. So ... I asked, "How much has sea level risen since 1990? The answer? 4 inches. Four inches? So ... tell me ... what is the actual threat that it will rise 3 feet? If "terrorism" is defined as the use of terror to further political, social, or ideological objectives, isn't this just ... terrorism? Trying to scare us into doing what they want? Here's my problem. "Believe the science," they tell us. "Science is right." But ... science doesn't believe science ... because science is always evolving, changing, adjusting, and not necessarily getting more accurate ... because we don't really know what's going on. So ... I hope no one minds if I ... reserve judgment on science.

Your Best Source for Fake News
The Bee reports that New York Mayor Mamandi is nervous now that Trump has managed to kill one Muslim dictator. Reasonable fear, I suppose. And Britain has sided with the Iran war when they realized Trump might be able to liberate them from radical Islam next. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a deal in the works. Finally, Bill Clinton is telling the Epstein committee, "It depends on what the definition of 'child-trafficking' is." Good ol' Bill.

Must be true; I read it on the internet.