A Taker, Not A Giver.

https://news.sky.com/story/turkey-urges-us-to-act-after-accusing-israel-of-breaching-gaza-ceasefire-13456611

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/10/its-hard-to-imagine-that-witkoff-still.html

Not only is the Hamas in violation of the ceasefire by not returning all the hostages within 72 hours it's also, clearly, not voluntarily decommissioning itself.

So what lies ahead is a combat operation.

The only two nations with a hope of getting security clearance to do that are Israel and the US.

It's up to Trump to decide which nation it will be.

Of course most of us outgrew Tom Clancy fiction when puberty hit.

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/10/which-hardly-engenders-feelings-of-pity.html

So there might still be hope for Hegseth yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S46SSKOEUoU (The Patriot Game, The Dubliners, 1964, Official Audio).