Can France Happen here I hope not. It looks like whatever started out there about students has been highjacked by the left and the red-green alliance to generate uncontrolled looting, destruction of public property and houses of worship. The write up by the WSJ front page on what’s happening is laughable. The left is growing in strength here and so is the red-green alliance and add a toxic brew of universities that have abandoned their role of teaching values and are producing America haters and we have to be careful. The key will be the Michigan race and whether sanity prevails and the voters reject El Sayed and begin to turn back this new strain of extremism or whether the Democratic Party will embrace and extend it. Former President Obama seems to be leading the charge to the far left and helping grow it — giving a lie to how he presented himself as a centrist, but we kind of knew that by now anyway.

Strait of Hormuz The president had many choices. He could have given in to Iran demands and paid them money like Obama did. He could have sent in massive ground troops in as Bush did. He chose the method of JFK and created a blockade that would not abandon the goal and minimize putting US soldiers in harm’s way. This is war and anything can and will happen but it was a careful choice. As successive waves of officials take control of Iran, they are learning a lesson that whether there will be regime change or not there will be regime modification and the US is not backing down from its position of no nukes and limited ballistic missiles. And the regime that gunned down 30,000 of its own citizens, oppresses women, fakes the “elections” and has to shut down the internet to suppress opposition, is decrying that the US is not respecting its “rights.” Of course, only the UN could add Iran to a human rights panel. Unlike Europe, we are not backing down and the only chits Iran has are its continued threats to take the rest of the world down economically and it can try but we are moving to block that and flip the script to close them down economically instead. It won’t happen but Dems should get on board with supporting this quarantine of Iran and show some national unity and resolve. 47 years of oppression, threats, terrorism, nuclear enrichment, and deaths to us soldiers is enough.