Friday, March 27, 2026

Friday’s Final Word – HotAir

March 27, 2026
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Friday night, it was late, I was walking you home, we got down to the tabs, and I was dreaming of the night …





YOUNG: Yeah, Wolf, we had long lines this morning that stretched outside the building. But just like that, they’re all gone right now. Look at the lines here at the main checkpoint! There is almost nothing to see here. But we will show you though, is all the ICE agents who are now manning the front post here, checking IDs. So they’re helping to keep that flow move very quickly here at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. We’re talking about wait times were over an hour this morning, that is all gone.

Ed: It’s amazing what ICE can do … and how professionally they do it. Donald Trump could not have staged a better way to expose media coverage and Democrat propaganda as nothing more than sheer defamation. However … 

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Axios: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has agreed in a meeting with the Freedom Caucus to put a 60-day continuing resolution that funds all of DHS, including ICE and CBP, in lieu of the Senate-passed bill on the House floor.

Why it matters: The move will prolong the more than five-week long shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, requiring the Senate to come back and approve the House bill.

Hardline House conservatives threatened to sink a Senate-passed DHS funding bill, vowing to vote no without changes, giving Johnson no easy off-ramp.

Democrats are unlikely to help Johnson pass a short-term clean extension of DHS, and have already voted against similar legislation several times.

Ed: Earlier today, I wondered if House Republicans would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I guess they feel like they have to try. Maybe this will be a demonstration, a performative vote with the Senate bill as the eventual off-ramp. With the weekend coming up, there’s plenty of time for people to regroup and restrategize. 

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Ed: Quelle surprise. 

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… arguing that a military mandate is the only way to break the regime’s back.

“I actually prefer the military option anyway, because the military option continues to destroy that leadership, continues to break them down.”

Ed: I think Trump prefers it too, at least for now. Keane’s right about this, but it’s not a total solution unless and until the Iranian people can rise up and seize control of their own country. Unlike what many people claim, we actually DO have an example of an air campaign leading to regime change – Libya. The failed-state outcome is cautionary, but that also had a lot to do with the typically tribal structure of Arab societies in that region. Iran is not Libya or Iraq in that sense. 

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Yousef Al Otaiba in the WSJ: The past 3½ weeks of war have confirmed what we have known for nearly 50 years—Iran’s revolution is a threat to global security and economic stability. We can’t let Iran hold the U.S., the United Arab Emirates and the global economy hostage. A simple cease-fire isn’t enough. We need a conclusive outcome that addresses Iran’s full range of threats: nuclear capabilities, missiles, drones, terror proxies and blockades of international sea lanes. …

We aren’t asking the U.S. to carry the full burden. We are defending our people, protecting regional stability and global prosperity, and demonstrating that real alliances are built on cooperation and contribution, not dependency.

We want Iran as a normal neighbor. It can be reclusive and even unwelcoming, but it can’t attack its neighbors, blockade international waters, or export extremism. Building a fence around the problem and wishing it goes away isn’t the answer. It would simply defer the next crisis.





Ed: Otaiba is the UAE’s ambassador to the US. This is from yesterday but is well worth reading today as well. The GCC states didn’t necessarily want this war in the first place, but now that it’s in motion, there is no real way to finish it except to finish it now. If the US wants to end it with the regime in place, one wonders whether the GCC states and Israel will simply pick up where we leave off. 

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… Hezbollah? Iran. Shia militias destroying and threatening Iraq? Iran. Hamas? Iran. Houthis? Iran. Assad in Syria? Iran. Everywhere you turn, they’re behind all of it.

Ed: Rubio nails it here. We have spent 47 years trying everything else, including literally throwing money at the mullahs, and the dangers of this regime have only grown more dire. If you have not yet watched my interview with the former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, Robert Joseph, be sure to do so soon. He’s been around for all of it. 

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WSJ: By attacking mostly civilian targets in the U.A.E. and blocking navigation in the Strait of Hormuz over the past month, the IRGC is behaving as a terrorist organization, said Noura Al Kaabi, a minister of state for foreign affairs. “They need to be held accountable. They are holding the world hostage,” she said in an interview.

An Iranian regime that remains under IRGC control is no longer acceptable, Kaabi added. “We want to have a normal neighbor,” she said. “Do we want to get a generation that is used to being threatened by our neighbors? I don’t think this is a reality that we want to leave to our next generations. We want a guarantee that this will never happen again.” …





Still, the biggest Gulf states—Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E—as well as Kuwait and Bahrain are becoming increasingly hawkish. While Saudi officials refrain from public statements, they have made it clear that they view the IRGC-dominated Iranian regime as an existential threat to the kingdom, diplomats say.

“All the Gulf countries agree that this war is unnecessary,” said Althunayyan of Kuwait University. “But the divergence that we are seeing is that the strategic patience of some of these countries is diminishing by the minute. And if the Iranian aggression intensifies, these states will have no option but to confront the threat, neutralize it and re-establish deterrence.”

Ed: This is from this afternoon. It’s not just the UAE that wants regime change; the Saudis want it too. The longer that Iran interferes with shipping in the Strait, the more determined these GCC states will be to ensure that Iran never poses this kind of threat in the future. One has to wonder whether they will contribute ground troops to missions that seize the islands in and near the Strait at some point, especially the Saudis, who are getting more and more belligerent.  

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Ed: Qatar and especially Oman were always more aligned with Tehran, especially Oman. There’s a reason that the Iranian regime wanted the talks with the US moved to Muscat. Kuwait’s position may be more surprising, given their close alignment to the US and the Saudis, but that may be because their military is not up to participating in a regime-destroying war. 

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Jerusalem Post: Israel attacked Iran’s Khandab heavy water reactor in Arak, as well as the uranium enrichment facility at Ardakan, on Friday, the IDF confirmed.





Earlier Iranian state media reports noted that the enrichment facility produced yellowcake, a concentrated uranium powder used in the early stages of nuclear fuel production.

A government official told the Islamic Republic’s semi-official Fars News Agency, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), that no casualties occured in the reported attack on the heavy water reactor, and that there is no danger to the local population. Fars reported that the facility was struck twice.

Ed: Keep an eye on this. Israel struck these sites almost certainly in response to the Iranian missile attack on Dimona, where their nuclear power station operates. That station was not damaged but over 200 people were wounded in the attack, and it’s clear that the Iranians targeted the facility. The Arak reactor is not active now, but the reactor in Bushehr is, and that may be next if the Iranians target Dimona again. 

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Ed: Fondacaro explains this more fully at Newsbusters. The idea that CNN is not getting “minded” as part of their access to Tehran is as absurd as it was for Baghdad in the Saddam Hussein era. Remember Eason Jordan? CNN never learned that lesson, it seems.  

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Tony Blair in The Free Press: If the arson attack on four ambulances run by a Jewish charity this week in London were an isolated incident, it would be bad enough. It isn’t isolated, unfortunately. It is part of a pattern in Britain and elsewhere in Europe.

Last year in the UK there were more than 3,700 incidents of antisemitism, with a sharp increase in attacks on visibly Jewish people and public figures, including the attack on a Manchester synagogue in October.

France, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands have seen similar spikes in antisemitic attacks and incidents following the October 7, 2023, terrorist assault on Israel.





Each high-profile incident is followed by ritualistic condemnation by political leaders. I have no doubt they mean what they say. But their words haven’t stopped the attacks.

Ed: I appreciate the courage of the former PM to speak out about the spread of virulent Jew-hatred in the UK and Europe. Blair’s courage does not extend to a discussion of what has created this massive increase in anti-Semitism, however, which is the mass migration of refugees from the “Arab Spring” countries, and especially Libya and Syria, over the last 20 years. Blair does not mention migration or refugees a single time, even though that wave of immigration and asylum has clearly changed the culture of Europe. At least Keir Starmer was honest enough to admit Labour’s migration policies deliberately pursued “multiculturalism” as a priority value. As for the issue in the US, that has a lot more to do with another aspect of the progressive-elite establishment …

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… anti-civilizational dark forces would become a mainstream staple in American politics and discourse. Having a group of ignorant domestic terrorists with Hamas and Palestinian flags, hiding their faces and taking over public space outside the City Hall of Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, is not only a grotesque sight, but it also demonstrates so much that has gone wrong.

It is a condemnation of our country’s higher education institutes, which have normalized violence, anti-Western ideologies, and embarrassing “post-colonial” narratives. This is a condemnation of a failed revisionist, neo-liberal immigration approach in which assimilation is frowned upon and viewed as bad and negative, coddling people with truly horrendous beliefs, ideologies, cultures, and backgrounds, instead of seeking to uplift and elevate them and their status. This is a condemnation of failed parenting, nonexistent community infrastructure to educate young people, failed leftist discourses, and moral bankruptcy.





Ed: There’s more at the link, so be sure to click through and read it. 

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Ed: Oh, let’s not always see the same hands … 

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