Althouse: "When do we send them an airmail message?"

February 28, 2026

"When do we send them an airmail message?"

Question answered: February 28, 2026.

Nearly 20 years later.

43 comments:

RCOCEAN II said...: Yeah McCain was getting his marching orders from AIPAC. Plus McCain loved war. And open borders.

BTW, Netenyahu and the other Israeli leaders were telling the USA as early as 2005 that we had to attack Iran because "They were on the verge of getting a bomb". Trump, the so-called peace candidate, is now John McCain II.; 2/28/26, 10:13 AM
Peachy said...: simplistic.
WE don't want to Bomb Iran. We want to bomb Obama's buddies at the Islamist supremacist club.; 2/28/26, 10:16 AM
Not an oldster. said...: Ha ha ha
So fuckin funny I forgot to laugh; 2/28/26, 10:17 AM
mccullough said...: Obama hardest hit.; 2/28/26, 10:17 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: you just did?; 2/28/26, 10:21 AM
baghdadbob said...: As long as the consequence of "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" isn't "Return to Sender."; 2/28/26, 10:24 AM
Dave Begley said...: My Kalshi contracts continue to increase in value. Only 600 total contracts.; 2/28/26, 10:25 AM
Wince said...: Now that I listen to that short clip, it sounds more like McCain recapitulating the question asked. To be honest, I'd have to hear more to know if that's what McCain recommended.; 2/28/26, 10:26 AM
Ann Althouse said...: McCain should have had a serious answer to what was a serious question. He resorted to an old joke. Reminds me of Biden. Thinks he's cute.; 2/28/26, 10:32 AM
William said...: I suppose it's theoretically possible that things will turn out for the best in Iran and the Middle East. It hasn't happened yet, but it's theoretically possible. There's no fixed Newtonian Law that everything turns to shit there.......The Mongols were quite successful in establishing peace there. So it has happened in the past. You only need someone with Genghis Khan's feel for nuance and diplomacy to make it work.; 2/28/26, 10:37 AM
D.D. Driver said...: DJT made the Cheney family so happy last night. All is well in the GOP and we are back to putting Americans first!; 2/28/26, 10:37 AM
Peachy said...: DD Driver - Dick is dead - and Maddow went to his funeral.
Liz - she is 100% pissed.; 2/28/26, 10:42 AM
MadTownGuy said...: That song was on the radio back in the day, in a convenience store in the office complex where I worked. The store owner lamented that though he was from Iraq, lots of people thought Iran and Iraq were the same place, and had stopped patronizing his store.; 2/28/26, 10:46 AM
mccullough said...: Disagree on the McCain answer. He wanted Iran to be worried. So he joked about bombing them. So it was a serious answer.; 2/28/26, 10:52 AM
Big Mike said...: That unknown North Vietnamese peasant who rescued LTC John McCain after he botched his ejection and broke both arms and a leg, then parachuted into a lake ultimately did more to damage the United States than all the NVA generals combined.; 2/28/26, 10:53 AM
mccullough said...: McCain wasn’t elected. W & Obama were. Nepotism & Affirmative Action.; 2/28/26, 11:01 AM
Big Mike said...: People seem to be forgetting that during the Vietnam War John McCain flew a ground attack aircraft, meaning that he dropped bombs for a living.; 2/28/26, 11:05 AM
Big Mike said...: Correction to my comment at 10:53. The abbreviation for lieutenant commander is LCDR, not LTC.; 2/28/26, 11:08 AM
Hassayamper said...: The Mongols were quite successful in establishing peace there. So it has happened in the past. You only need someone with Genghis Khan's feel for nuance and diplomacy to make it work.

Pyramids of human skulls on either side of the throne tend to focus the minds of underlings and ambassadors and hasten satisfactory agreements.; 2/28/26, 11:09 AM
Dave Begley said...: Tim Kaine

2h
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Trump has launched an unnecessary, idiotic, and illegal war against Iran that puts America’s servicemembers and embassy personnel at risk. I’m calling on Congress to immediately return to vote on my War Powers Resolution that blocks war with Iran without congressional approval.“; 2/28/26, 11:25 AM
mccullough said...: Is Tim Kaine’s son still vandalizing shit? Poor parenting; 2/28/26, 11:28 AM
Dave Begley said...: McCullough:

Woody Kaine was at Carleton College with my oldest daughter. But my daughter is now an architect!; 2/28/26, 11:37 AM
narciso said...: Ah clem another ridiculous fellow; 2/28/26, 11:58 AM
FullMoon said...: Judge will issue temp restraining,; 2/28/26, 12:30 PM
Not an oldster. said...: Nebraska allegedly so great, but please note Begley sends his girls to secular Minnesota schools for their educations, not catholic or Nebraska schools...; 2/28/26, 12:42 PM
Lazarus said...: Liz Cheney is furious? How about Jennifer Rubin? "Kristolization" should be the Word of the Year. It means becoming indignant about getting the things you want because you don't like the person who gets those things for you.

I could see somebody writing a novel or making a movie about the Holton-Kaine clan. Tim would of course provide the comedy. The serious part would be the journey from Linwood Holton, the first GOP governor of Virginia since reconstruction, to Woody Kaine, his (quasi-)Antifa grandson. It would be the WASP Republican counterpart to "American Pastoral."; 2/28/26, 12:44 PM
Just an old country lawyer said...: Speaking of ridiculous fellows, UK p.m. Kier Starmer was quick to assure the world that Britain had nothing to do with today's attack, surprising no one.
Does anyone doubt that if Argentina tried again to grab the Falklands Kier wouldn't lift a hand, and that if Argentina was a Muslim state he would have already handed the islands over to them?; 2/28/26, 12:48 PM
Skeptical Voter said...: I can hardly wait to hear the howling from the Democrat pack on Sunday morning's shows. The whole pack will be barking and snarling--but dang the caravan already done moved on.; 2/28/26, 12:50 PM
Kakistocracy said...: First Venezuela, then Iran, and there's rumbling about Cuba. When will Democrats learn their lesson and stop talking about the Epstein files?; 2/28/26, 1:02 PM
rhhardin said...: Tousi TV channel on YouTube has the best coverage, when they're live (or stream old live ones); 2/28/26, 1:32 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2027804327457526092; 2/28/26, 1:39 PM
Jaq said...: Don't bother listening to what he says, look at his emotion, and this is a guy I have been following, and he is an Iranian against the "regime" in Iran. When he reads a headline that Khameni is dead, or supposed to be, you can see he gets angry. He is pissed at what is being done to his country.

https://www.youtube.com/live/muak6dARAOc?si=Mhd5sTmkd34cX8qs&t=1570<>; 2/28/26, 2:00 PM
narciso said...: Actually it does matter the ayatollah built an empire on a mountain of skulls; 2/28/26, 2:16 PM
OldManRick said...: It's being announced that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Dead. Hit was timed to a meeting with other top officials.

The real beauty of this is the Iranians don't know how we knew he was there. The two best possibilities are HUMINT (a spy) or COMINT (we're reading their emails/texts/radio communication and they don't know it). We really want them to think it's HUMINT because that means they can't trust anyone around them. If they decide it's COMINT, they go back to hand carried messages. It slows them up but blinds us.; 2/28/26, 2:58 PM
Jaq said...: Bored of Peace? Operation Epstein Fil.... No, no, no, that's no good "Ep... Epic, Epic Fury? That's the ticket!; 2/28/26, 3:05 PM
Enigma said...: There was also "Rock the Casbah" (1982) by The Clash. It may be about "rocking" dance parties in an oppressive state, or it may be about the stuff jet fighters do.

The king called out his jet fighters
He said you'd better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the sharif was chauffeured out of there
The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare
As soon as the sharif was out of their hair
The jet pilots wailed

The sharif don't like it
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
The sharif don't like it (he thinks it's not kosher)
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
The sharif don't like it (fundamentally he can't take it)
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
The sharif don't like it (you know he really hates it)
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah; 2/28/26, 3:06 PM
Big Mike said...: But my daughter is now an architect!

@Dave Begley, is she the architect who designed my house without linen closets in the floor plan? Nah, had to be a guy.; 2/28/26, 3:59 PM
Old and slow said...: The Clash's biggest hit was one of their worst songs.; 2/28/26, 4:24 PM
narciso said...: Yes morocco doesnt really roll that way

They kill troublemakers like ben barka; 2/28/26, 4:38 PM
Jim at said...: DJT made the Cheney family so happy last night. All is well in the GOP and we are back to putting Americans first!

Another fifth-column POS self-identifies ...; 2/28/26, 4:56 PM
narciso said...: Theres a little of the raisuli affair from the wind and the lion; 2/28/26, 4:57 PM
gadfly said...: Attorney Mark Geragos was at Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab (two-tenths of a mile from the White House) at around 3:00 PM ET, getting something to eat and preparing to do the "2 Angry Men" podcast with Harvey Levin ... from his seat in the bar area.

Four men were sitting at a high-top table, and 2 women were standing next to them. The men were dressed in business attire ... sports coats and collared shirts. Mark says one of the men said in a voice loud enough for him to clearly hear ... the U.S. was going to bomb Iran "today."

"Today is the day." Sure enough, hours later, the U.S. and Israel were bombing Iran.

And get this ... one of the guys at the table was singing this to the tune of The Beach Boys, "Barbara Ann," ...

"Bomb Bomb Bomb

Bomb Bomb Iran."

It's literally the definition of "Loose lips sink ships."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-angry-men/id1728521271; 2/28/26, 7:43 PM
Bunkypotatohead said...: "Remember Woods's Law #3: No matter whom you vote for, you always wind up with John McCain."-Tom Woods; 2/28/26, 11:44 PM