Did America Run Out of Missiles? (Kim Iversen)

The New York Times reports Trump has quietly shelved plans to escalate against Iran — because the Pentagon's stockpile of Patriot interceptors is running dangerously low. Confronted with the report, Mike Waltz blames Biden, denies the depletion in the same breath, and says the leakers "deserve to be in jail." Meanwhile the war chorus gets louder: Fox's Sid Rosenberg demands "complete annihilation" of Iran and insists the troops knew what they "signed up for," while Ben Shapiro declares Americans "willing to undergo those casualties" in pursuit of victory. Then the Lindsey Graham material: resurfaced footage of him celebrating the war's start, a recorded call promising Netanyahu he'd push Trump to "join with y'all in Lebanon" — and Miriam Adelson's own tribute confirming Sheldon spoke with Graham every single day, "about Israel." So the question stands: if the missiles are running out, who exactly is this war for?



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 29, 2026.]