There is a great of material piling up in the comments and much of it will get posted. But editing takes time, so it may not be right away. But this event is interesting and deserves priority.
John Bolton speech from the 21st coming up soon and its superb although, well depressing. I would call him a Cassandra except he is talking about the now and the known, not the future and the unseen.
It is about time we acted like we have a pair.
I repeat Iran is going to keep pushing until they force us to fire the first shots in a war between the US and Iran, a war that will spread. There are other flash points that may erupt before this one but this is currently the hottest hot spot that I know of.