Sorry- didn’t mean to alarm you with the title for today’s Daily. But the President is doing some negotiations with some crafty Persians. Splash collected rugs in his time overseas. It was a sensible collection for a career Sailor, since moving every two years and raising kids born near Waikiki. The intricate designs and remarkable artisstry could be rolled up in one place and unrolled at the new place that suddenly seemed a lot like home.

We are not talking about rugs and craftsmanship here, though, and have finally, in the last couple days realized publicly what we have known privately since this began in 1979 and we actually had to listen to what our adversaries said about their activities at the Marine Barracks and 9/11 and all the rest of the lunacy that holds one set of religious beliefs condones the murder of your neighbors.

You could call the barracks bombing a legitimate military target, even if planting the bombs makes it a surprise bloody attack in violation of international law.

Anyway, that gets to the point where we hae Mr. Trump step in and act, which strikes us as something that might have been useful four decades ago when the American hostages were held for more than four hundred days.

Don’t get us wrong. We do not hold any animosity toward any religious faith. Our time here on earth is fleeting, after all, and it behooves us to create families, raise the kids well, and prevent their murder by people convinced that they have been commanded by God to make us obey.

The President says the world ends this afternoon if the clerics attempting to run their nation do not submit to ours. You can see the problem, and once free of the Navy, Splash sold the rugs.

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