War

The Schloss-Blog is concerned that we'll be going to war, along with Israel, against Iran, which vastly outnumbers and out-weapons Israel, even though the Israelis are the far superior fighting force.

When Hezbollah invades, when Iran declares war after Israel's next retaliatory attack, how will Israel offset Iran's advantages in numbers?

With the help of the United States. At first, it will be our planes and missiles fired from the sea. But how long, if war breaks out between Israel and Iran, before U.S troops are on the ground?

And with Donald Trump in the White House, Netanyahu has a green light to go full scale, accompanied by what he knows will be Trump's permission and promise to commit to combat.

Trump says he wants to stop the killing. But ultimately, he'll sacrifice American lives in the Middle East and destroy what relationships we have with the Arab world.

Meanwhile though, Antony Blinken will shuttle around the Middle East, campaigning for peace, but how did that work out between Russia and Ukraine? Between Israel and Hamas? 

And where are the hostages? Dead or dying. And while we campaign for peace and humantarian aid, we feed the "good guys" with the weapons they need to hold off the "bad guys," aka terrorists and invaders.

As we should. Right? They're terrorists, right? Yes, they are.

Is this any way to conduct a ceasefire negotiation?

Above all though, remember - Hamas is the bad guys here. Bad guys need to be gotten rid of.

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Did anyone notice that Donald Trump lost a debate to someone he says is "mentally disabled?"

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And in sports...

The Knicks got Karl-Anthony Towns.

Yes!!!

Stephen A. Smith will be happy - he wanted the Knicks to get rid of Julius Randle.

This trade makes me a little sad. There was a time when any major move by the Knicks would've prompted an immediate phone call from bestie Gary Kruh, with whom I grew up in Brooklyn. We would've lamented or cheered long distance for hours over such a move.

Or over getting Mikal Bridges. Or over the secret weapon throw-in in the Towns' trade - draft rights to James Nnaji.

We would've discussed the plusses and minuses for hours.

We were devout Knicks fans - along with Keith Corbin, we went to Knicks playoff games, stood in long lines for tickets, rode New York subways late at night on the way home and even went to Bill Bradley's first game as a member of the Knicks at the old Madison Square Garden.

Gary's been gone for 15 years now. Somewhere though, he's smiling.

R.I.P. And let's go Knicks.

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One last sports and entertainment note: within a couple of days of each other, the sports world lost Pete Rose and Dikembe Mutombo and then we lsot entertainment superstar Kris Kristofferson.

Sadly, Pete Rose, I'll bet, will be enshrined now into MLB's Hall of Fame.

You watch.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Sharon Kelley.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.