Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘SPAAG’

Temperament incompatible with what I do

A person who goes against the crowd should be able to cheerfully accept that most people will be hostile to that differing viewpoint. My temperament prevents me from maintaining an even keel in the face of unreasonable belligerence. It’s not a mystery why. As I child, I was always right. I could tell what was…

 

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The beginning of the end for the mullahs?

The mullahs of Iran are in a lot of trouble. In fact, they’re facing their worst crisis since they officially took power on December 3, 1979. What many people don’t know is that Ayatollah Ruallah Khomeini’s policy was “export of Revolution.” In practice this meant that Iran became the center of “pan-Islamism.” The Iranian Revolution…

 

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World War I soldiers versus the Islamic State

On Twitter a man claiming to be a member of the Islamic State tried to engage me. He said he was a combat veteran of fighting against the US and Israel. Literally everything he tweeted was factually incorrect, and he wrote in perfectly fluent, colloquial American English. I’m sure he’s a fake, but I blocked…

 

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