Thread by @wretchardthecat

The one possibility the left was unprepared for was if Trump did not strike militarily at Iran.

time.com/5613465/iran-a…

Bomb, damn you, bomb. What? No bombing?

The Left must redeploy to oppose what Sean McFate called a 'war in the shadows'. Look for more stories decrying low-intensity warfare. In a way that concern will be justified. We have not really abolished war, just made it harder to detect by spreading it across domains.

The great thing about old style warfare is everybody knew where they stood. You were a civilian or you wore a uniform. Wars were declared. Enemies surrendered. The clever theorist believed they could gain advantages by cheating on all those fronts. Boy were they wrong.

“If we want to fight back, do it in the shadows,” he said.

Mr. McFate said the United States could put a bounty on Iran’s paramilitary and proxy forces. That would create an incentive for mercenary forces to take on Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies.

This, unless limited by a means we have yet to discover, is a kind of war-in-peace, a twilight world, one in which dark shadows can descend upon patches of apparent sunlight. One moment it's a nice autumn day. The next jets crash into the tallest building in the world.

OIF was insupportable, so we are all irregulars now.

"The types of responses the United States could undertake are broad if the United States was willing to use the same tactics that Iran has mastered, said Sean McFate, a professor at the National Defense University.”

The business of the Global World involves too much money to really disrupt. What society has done is find ways to fight it at the edges, with people we don't want to talk about using solutions we'd rather not discuss, while the music still plays.

"It's better that way."