<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p class="gmail-css-ac37hb evys1bk0" style="margin:0px 0px 0.9375rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.875rem;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:transparent solid 2px;color:rgb(54,54,54);width:600px;max-width:100%"><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="" size="4"><b style="">Nicholas Kristo said something interesting in his New York Times column: </b></font></span></p><p class="gmail-css-ac37hb evys1bk0" style="font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin:0px 0px 0.9375rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:transparent solid 2px;color:rgb(54,54,54);width:600px;max-width:100%"><span style="font-size:1.25rem"><b>"Suppose Iran dispatched operatives to Mexico, where, from the Texas border, they fired a missile at an American base and, unintentionally but carelessly, demolished a nearby American school, killing 175 people.</b></span></p><p class="gmail-css-ac37hb evys1bk0" style="font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin:0px 0px 0.9375rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:transparent solid 2px;color:rgb(54,54,54);width:600px;max-width:100%"><b>What if they then blew up fuel depots, showering a chemical rain on residents? Then struck homes, schools and clinics, as Iran’s leader warned that “death, fire and fury” would so pulverize America that it could never be rebuilt?</b></p><p class="gmail-css-ac37hb evys1bk0" style="font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin:0px 0px 0.9375rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:transparent solid 2px;color:rgb(54,54,54);width:600px;max-width:100%"><b>In that case, President Trump — and all of us — would howl at outrageous attacks on innocent civilians. And we’d be right."</b></p><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark    See what's on my list at  </font><font size="6"><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></font></font></b></div><font size="1" color="#ffffff">000</font><p class="gmail-css-ac37hb evys1bk0" style="font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin:0px 0px 0.9375rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.875rem;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:transparent solid 2px;color:rgb(54,54,54);width:600px;max-width:100%"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></p></div></div>