Declaring Victory

I don't remember our government declaring victory in Vietnam, I remember them slinking away with their tail between their legs like a whipped puppy, leaving their allies twisting in the wind.  I guess the only domino that fell was Vietnam itself, plus Cambodia and Laos if you count them as separate countries.  I suppose they could get out of the Middle East the same way, but that would be a little more complicated since their allies and enemies keep changing places.  For instance, I doubted Uncle Ken's assertion that Soleimani took the good guys' side against ISIS, but it seems that he did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani#Cultural_depictions_and_legacy

The only Mideast country really worth saving is Israel, and I have previously proposed that they evacuate all the Jews and give them a new promised land in the U.S.  They could avoid having the Israeli Jews trying to take over our country by setting them up with their own sovereign state in the desert Southwest.  There is a lot of unoccupied federal land there, so nobody would have to be displaced.  Alternatively, they could circle the wagons around Israel and let the Muslims kill each other off.  Call these two options half baked plans if you will, but at least they are plans, which is more than our government seems to have in the region.

I am no auto mechanic, but I do know some basic trouble shooting skills.  There are a number of reasons that a car might not start.  If you turn the key and nothing happens, the battery might be dead.  If you jump it with another battery and you still get nothing, the problem is electrical.  If the battery cranks the engine but the engine doesn't fire, it might not be getting gas, or it still might be electrical.  If it fires intermittently but doesn't run, it might be the carburetor.  Okay, as Uncle Ken pointed out, cars no longer have carburetors, but chain saws, lawn mowers, and hydraulic wood splitters still do.  If you back a pickup truck into a hydraulic wood splitter, damaging the carburetor in the process, you will need to have it replaced, which will put the machine out of commission for months because the only small engine repair shop in town is really busy this time of year...…..Or so I've been told.  What replaced the carburetors in cars are fuel injectors.  I have no experience with them not working, but I'm pretty sure you can't adjust them with a dime like you could the old carburetors.