Political Notes by Jon Fuhrman Wednesday, April 8. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was the linchpin of Cold War strategy. Both the United States and the Soviet Union possessed enough nuclear weapons to annihilate each other – truly to destroy each other’s civilizations. Each side knew the other had those weapons, indeed enough weapons such that, even after a surprise first strike, the victim could still wreak utter destruction upon the aggressor. So it was a stalemate, bec

Political Notes by Jon Fuhrman Tuesday, March 10. We don’t know, and we may not ever know, if President Trump was seriously engaging in negotiations with Iran, or if the negotiations were simply a smoke screen for his decision finally to “resolve” the Iranian problem by killing their leadership (since, realistically, even the President knew they couldn’t kidnap the Ayatollah as we did President Maduro of Venezuela). We may never know whether Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu h

Political Notes by Jon Fuhrman Thursday, February 12. From Karl Rove on down, Republican pundits are starting to warn that the GOP is heading towards Niagara Falls, without the traditional barrel. Gee, I wonder why! The latest harbingers of public dissatisfaction come from Washington, DC. President Trump was greatly annoyed when six Democratic members of Congress, all veterans of the military or intelligence services, put together a public service video reminding members of t