This Time They Have Surely Gone Too Far

As with the US assassination of General Qasem Soleimani four years ago, the mad mullahs of Tehran have exercised a truly evil degree of restraint in their retaliation for the Righteous State's bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Most of the drones were shot down, the damage to Western colonial property was minor and Iran has stated that it considers the matter concluded, thereby proving its status as an existential threat to the Netanyahoo administration, which would much prefer the expediency of a regional conflagration doubtless leading handily to an Enabling Act. The mad mullahs even went so far as to contrast their attack with the Righteous State's assault on the Palestinians, thereby wilfully ignoring the vital distinction between states which are allowed to have legitimate security concerns and states which are not, and between the cycle of violence which began out of a blue sky last October and the peace process which has been going on since 1967.