Posted on 06/21/2019 7:22:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Excellent response by Trump. Showing restraint and strength at the same time.
If that's true, that's insane. A new F-35 only costs 90 million. Why would a drone cost significantly more than a top of the line fifth generation fighter?
If 120 million is correct, we have a bigger scandal than Iran shooting down one of these things.
Who the h3ll thought it was a good idea to buy unmanned drones costing that much?
... and exposes DS.
Maybe central thinks we should retaliate whenever Iran says “death to America.”
By proportionate Trump probably meant you can’t compare human lives to a machine. Now bombing the crap out of one of their nuclear facilities WOULD BE proportionate.
A “win” for Trump. He may never even have truly intended to retaliate in this manner, but by publicly halting such action provides a nice optic of patience and consideration to win allies, perhaps in UN support against Iran.
In 83 they killed 241 Marines. Here they shot down the military equivalent of a of a radio controlled toy. Trump made absolutely the right call. He let the Dems and media yell war monger then he drops this hammer where he is patient and reasonable and they are fools. Genius.
We’ll get another chance. Iran will try again. I hope Donald’s trigger finger is itchy and limbered up.
I do not agree with the Donald on that one. But, it depends where the strikes, or the targets were.
Next if Iran does something else and we do retaliate you will call Trump a genius. What flicked fools we’ve become.
We I Trump, I would keep quiet work behind the scenes and plan the REAL recompense against Iran AFTER re-election. Iran MUST be stopped in their tracks at some point. A nuke going off in our homeland is not a good option either, and that is a real possibility. That CANNOT BE IGNORED, politics be damned!
I don’t have a problem with eliminating 150 Iranians in a first strike, what comes after that does.
I can assure you if they had shot down a manned plane, the response would have been quick and deadly and massive.
If Trump retaliates over a drone, he gives the Iran government what they want... pictures of injured Iranis at the hands of the Evil Empire... which will unite Iran against the US.
By letting the sanctions continue, the people will continue to turn against their government... only this time, we will support them... unlike last time, when Obama left them to die in the streets.
This is exactly what I think. Trump is a master of politics and optics. I think he launched that attack with the full intention of halting it to make himself look like the more reasonable party, while still sending the message to the Mullahs that he can hit them.
I don’t think Trump is a believer in porportionate. He normally hits back 5 times as hard.
And in this case he was going to destroy 3 sites in response to one drone. But loss of life is a big step up. That’s where he drew the line.
I think he made his point. And he has additional sanctions to boot.
If they do something that takes or threatens American lives and interests, not American toys then I blieve Trump has set the stage for prompt effective retaliation. And it was Ronald Reagan who did not reply to the Beirut bombing and all he did was win the Cold War. Both Bushes went off on Kiplingesque military adventures. Where has that gotten us?
Better than the decision he made last year to launch missile strikes on Syria, based on the gas report provided by the white helmets.
“How many miles of wall will 100 million dollars build?”
Four to twenty five, depending on where.
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