One has to wonder if he expected Iran to fight back, if he was naïve enough to assume they’d simply roll over.

Might have thought the Epstein files would have something to do with it.

Standards were different back then. Even in my lifetime, we would just believe things that were wrong because we had no easy means to validate that without doing actual, manual research using books, which themselves could be outdated by a decade.

I must be not that bright because I played many games of battleship in my childhood and never even considered the possibility.

What part of this is passive?

For the same reason, nurses are not fairly compensated for their work.

The best part is that, legally, they're both considered people.

I feel pretty confident that if there is a god and it is just, then sexual orientation doesn’t even register as a concern. I say this as someone who has been outside recently and seen actual problems.

Condolences.