The war with Iran

[Redneck_Buddha]

Oh good, let’s get another war started spilling Americans’ blood and spending taxpayers’ money. Has not 20 years, thousands of lives lost, 10’s of thousands wounded and 2 trillion dollars spent taught the war hawks anything?

So you'd rather we sit idly by while Iran escalates the havoc? According to the story, it took exactly zero troops to take out this terrorist.

Yeah, we're the problem...right.

[philip964]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ghdad.html

Rockets launched against closed US Embassy in Baghdad.

Missed and hit an apartment building killing civilians.

[anygunanywhere]

Oh good, let’s get another war started spilling Americans’ blood and spending taxpayers’ money. Has not 20 years, thousands of lives lost, 10’s of thousands wounded and 2 trillion dollars spent taught the war hawks anything?

There will never be peace in the ME. The heathens can’t behave.

[anygunanywhere]

Oh good, let’s get another war started spilling Americans’ blood and spending taxpayers’ money. Has not 20 years, thousands of lives lost, 10’s of thousands wounded and 2 trillion dollars spent taught the war hawks anything?

So you'd rather we sit idly by while Iran escalates the havoc? According to the story, it took exactly zero troops to take out this terrorist.

Yeah, we're the problem...right.

That is not what Grayling is saying. If Iran wants to war we need to end it swiftly and convincingly. Then we need to get all our people out of there. Let them kill each other.

[Redneck_Buddha]

Oh good, let’s get another war started spilling Americans’ blood and spending taxpayers’ money. Has not 20 years, thousands of lives lost, 10’s of thousands wounded and 2 trillion dollars spent taught the war hawks anything?

So you'd rather we sit idly by while Iran escalates the havoc? According to the story, it took exactly zero troops to take out this terrorist.

Yeah, we're the problem...right.

That is not what Grayling is saying. If Iran wants to war we need to end it swiftly and convincingly. Then we need to get all our people out of there. Let them kill each other.

Got it. My apologies and totally agree

[Ed4032]

How can you tell if they are mad at us now? Asking for a friend.

[der Teufel]

Oh good, let’s get another war started spilling Americans’ blood and spending taxpayers’ money. Has not 20 years, thousands of lives lost, 10’s of thousands wounded and 2 trillion dollars spent taught the war hawks anything?

There may be no really good choices here, but clearly some are worse than others …

We could leave the Middle East to sort itself out, but we'd have to be prepared to deal with an area dominated by Iran.
And, what would we then do when Iran attacked Israel?

[philip964]

https://www.click2houston.com/news/worl ... an-troops/

3 Americans killed in an attack on a Kenyan military base.

The attack was carried out by the militant Islamic terrorist group al Shabaab, affiliate of Al Qaeda.

May not be related to Iran. Sometimes terrorist groups don’t like not being in the news, when other groups are monopolizing all the attention.

Bad guys, need to be exterminated.

[anygunanywhere]

How can you tell if they are mad at us now? Asking for a friend.

It hasn't got a thing to do with being mad. We are the great satan. We represent what is good and Christian in the world. We are infidels and must either be converted or killed. They will not stop until it is finished. There are no real moderate sects. All are Islam.

[Flightmare]

I'm sorry, a friend of mine posted this on social media and I laughed way harder than I should.

Now I've got "Jingle Bombs" stuck in my head. (due to some language in the song, I decided it was inappropriate to post. It's easy to find on youtube though)

[TxRVer]

I'm sorry, a friend of mine posted this on social media and I laughed way harder than I should.

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Now I've got "Jingle Bombs" stuck in my head. (due to some language in the song, I decided it was inappropriate to post. It's easy to find on youtube though)

I'm stealing it.

[The Annoyed Man]

Does this mean the United States won't complain when Iran targets US political leaders in response?

Complain? Who knows, escalate probably! U.S. can bring far more varied and powerful weapons than Iran can! They should quit while they can!

I don’t entirely disagree, but consider histories, capabilities, and methods..... the Iranians who have most to fear from America's war-making capabilities and methods are Iran’s leadership and military. The Americans who have the most to fear from Iran’s war-making capabilities and methods are average American civilian citizens. Our nation fights wars primarily through normal military channels. Iran fights wars by proxy through terrorist organizations. We kill enemy combatants, they kill civilians.

Whether or not a war with Iran is winnable (in purely military terms, it absolutely is), and whether or not it’s advisable (that’s legitimately open to question....as should be ANY war), we shouldn’t ignore histories, capabilities, and methods. If they bring even a small terror capability to our shores, it is civilians who’ll pay the price, more so than our military.

I don’t say this to argue one way or the other about a war with Iran. I say it only to caution all of us against getting salty without a thought for consequences.

[iratollah]

Soleimani set a fine leadership example yesterday when he finally quit smoking.

[cirus]

Does this mean the United States won't complain when Iran targets US political leaders in response?

Complain? Who knows, escalate probably! U.S. can bring far more varied and powerful weapons than Iran can! They should quit while they can!

I don’t entirely disagree, but consider histories, capabilities, and methods..... the Iranians who have most to fear from America's war-making capabilities and methods are Iran’s leadership and military. The Americans who have the most to fear from Iran’s war-making capabilities and methods are average American civilian citizens. Our nation fights wars primarily through normal military channels. Iran fights wars by proxy through terrorist organizations. We kill enemy combatants, they kill civilians.

Whether or not a war with Iran is winnable (in purely military terms, it absolutely is), and whether or not it’s advisable (that’s legitimately open to question....as should be ANY war), we shouldn’t ignore histories, capabilities, and methods. If they bring even a small terror capability to our shores, it is civilians who’ll pay the price, more so than our military.

I don’t say this to argue one way or the other about a war with Iran. I say it only to caution all of us against getting salty without a thought for consequences.

[eureka40]

If there must be war, unrestrict the rules of engagement and fight it Schwartzkopf style.

NO MORE obama style fighting with suffocating ROE.