There are so many from which to choose - "shock and awe," bomb them back into the stone age," "pacification," and "hearts and minds," to name a few - but my favorite has to be Dick Nixon's bombing campaign of North Viet Nam in December of '72: "The Christmas Bombings." It always made me think of him dressed up as Santa riding in a sleigh full of bombs guided by Rudolf's nose to those hapless chimneys in Haiphong and Hanoi...

This says it all:

"Trump “is getting a little bored with Iran,” a senior White House official told Jake Traylor of MS NOW. “Not that he regrets it or something—he’s just bored and wants to move on.” 

As found in  Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American <heathercoxrichardson@substack.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 6:39 AM

This does not bode well for the Blue Heron colony and other wildlife in the area.

Hmmm. The prior "appropriation" concept is right out of Herbert Spencer and "Survival of the Fittest," which if it is any kind of dogma or reflection thereof would be the version that the powers-that-be held up as the revealed word of the almighty in the gilded age, "Social Darwinism."

Appropriation: "Shoplifters do it; Horse theives do it. Nations do it, as did Putin with the Crimean Peninsula. America's gunboat diplomacy in the nineteenth century did a lot of it.  In the Middle Ages in England, ecclesiastical law, developed as custom in monasteries,  justified appropriation of benefices intended for local vicars, that is, raking of the till on its way to charity." (Davenport, 2020: 35).

Right on, Jim.

Reference

Davenport, J. (2020).  Western Water Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court. McFarland and Company. Jefferson, North Carolina

Clearly, the draft-dodger occupying the White House, Mr. "Bone Spurs" never took this oath and has no idea of what it means to have taken it. He joins Mr. Clinton and to a lesser extent, Mr, Bush, jr, in this distinction,

If, indeed, the VA ever did use an SPC (Statistical Process Control) approach to processing claims (e.,g, the Shewhart SPC), it appears it recently may have implemented the TAVP (Trump Arbitrary and Vindictive Process) approach under orders of the most recent draft dodger in the White House, Mr. "Bone Spurs."