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If Iran Falls, America Must Hunt Down Those Who Killed Its Troops
National Security Journal ^ | 6/13/2025 | Michael Rubin

Posted on 06/13/2025 6:58:41 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

Should Israel decapitate the Iranian leadership and should the regime fall, the Trump administration must send in investigator to track down, detain, and interrogate those responsible for killing Americans and funding the insurgency.

Some should be extradited to the United States to serve the rest of their lives in prison; others can be offered the opportunity to turn state’s evidence.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: iran; iranfafo; israel; middleeast; military
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1 posted on 06/13/2025 6:58:41 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

Remember the US Embassy 444 Days.....................


2 posted on 06/13/2025 7:03:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Rubin….


3 posted on 06/13/2025 7:06:27 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: whyilovetexas111

BTTT


4 posted on 06/13/2025 7:07:16 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: whyilovetexas111

Dismantle the entire ruling council apparatus. Let the good people of Iran run the country.


5 posted on 06/13/2025 7:09:57 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: whyilovetexas111

‘...rest of their lives in prison.’??? These leftard boneheads don’t get it. War is war. Treating it like a criminal action - an anti-social behavor against the local societal norms - is ludicrous. Get the answers from them, then dress them in pig skins and shoot them and bury them, publicly, so the rest of the nuts can see the pig fat touching them before they die. Worked in the Phillipines over a century ago. When we stopped treating the mooslimes like that, they started up their troublemaking again.


6 posted on 06/13/2025 7:11:08 AM PDT by curious7
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To: whyilovetexas111

Probably not a bad idea. But a little bit selective, since we are busy making business deals and alliances with the Saudis, Isis members and the Taliban now.
At some point, America needs to quit playing with Middle East turds. We keep getting crap on our fingers. 35 years of constant US war in the Middle East… It needs to stop somewhere


7 posted on 06/13/2025 7:11:28 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: whyilovetexas111

“They’re not good enough for our prison system”, President Trump would say!


8 posted on 06/13/2025 7:22:25 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: whyilovetexas111

The neocons are feeling their oats today.


9 posted on 06/13/2025 7:23:51 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: DesertRhino

The neocons never quit with their blood thirst.


10 posted on 06/13/2025 7:25:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: whyilovetexas111

Some people are getting way ahead of themselves.


11 posted on 06/13/2025 7:26:19 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: whyilovetexas111

I enjoy the spirit of the idea, but not the practice.

Nary a boot needs to hit the ground, except sappers and special forces to go in and plant bombs inside difficult-to-destroy facilities. And it looks like the Israelis have done this/are doing this.

While the revenge would be sweet and well-deserved, I don’t think it is wise to go on the ground to hunt down old men who don’t poise an immediate threat to the USA. Let them die, knowing they’ve destroyed their country.


12 posted on 06/13/2025 7:37:01 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Iran is part of Ezekiel 38. I’ll be surprised if they fall.


13 posted on 06/13/2025 8:05:45 AM PDT by roving
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To: kiryandil
The neocons are feeling their oats today.

You have to admit they were right about Iran, though. It never made sense that so many were convinced that attacking Iran would cause a wider war in the Mideast and maybe even WWIII. Iran had no friends in the region, other than Syria and Iran’s surrogates in Hezbollah and Hamas (both of which have been neutered by Israel - in fact, Hezbollah just officially surrendered to Israel). On the contrary, Iran’s imagined “Muslim brothers” hated and feared them, and wanted to see the mullahs gone just as much as Israel did. Where this “wider war” was going to come from was always a mystery, given the obvious facts.

The actual path to a wider war, and possibly WWIII, was instead to keep standing idly by with their thumbs up their butts while Iran marched forward to a nuclear arsenal. THAT would most certainly have caused a massive and very dangerous war. The truth here was so obvious, and now that Israel has struck, we can see how deeply wrong the isolationists were.

I am firmly in the “screw Ukraine” and “stick to our own business” camp, but in this particular case the U.S. has a clear national interest in preventing Iran from going nuclear, and military action was the only path that would ever have been successful. Thank God Israel finally put their own self-preservation ahead of the protestations of the weak and timid.

14 posted on 06/13/2025 8:23:01 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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So... you’re starting to get the impression that posters who use the term “neocon” and are repeatedly shown to be wrong are actually using false labels and narration? Like errr, Propaganda? Maybe they aren’t honest or credible?

It’s an information war and you’re injured.


15 posted on 06/13/2025 8:32:49 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: curious7

Your post is particularly valid given the reality of American leftist judges—no way you want any of this stuff near a courtroom.


16 posted on 06/13/2025 8:34:58 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

“ Let them die, knowing they’ve destroyed their country.”

They will go to France. Mossad will hunt them down there.


17 posted on 06/13/2025 10:06:17 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS Much?)
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To: Eccl 10:2
Let the good people of Iran run the country.

I worked with Iranian engineers in Afghanistan in the mid-2000s. They were smart, competent, and personable.

18 posted on 06/13/2025 10:09:39 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: whyilovetexas111; Red Badger
Remember the IEDs.

Remember the US Embassy 444 Days...

Remember the relentless spring of 2008 rocket attacks on the Green Zone in Baghdad that took out a few of our troops. I was very close to the one that hit the gym at Phoenix Base and took two soldiers. Those were courtesy of the Iran-backed Muqtada al Sadr scum.

19 posted on 06/13/2025 10:15:49 AM PDT by Allegra (ICE, ICE, Baby!)
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To: noiseman

“I am firmly in the “screw Ukraine” and “stick to our own business” camp, but in this particular case the U.S. has a clear national interest in preventing Iran from going nuclear, and military action was the only path that would ever have been successful. Thank God Israel finally put their own self-preservation ahead of the protestations of the weak and timid.”

+1

I was shot and had my back broken in Iraq and despise the neocons. But happily support action against Iran, which is our real enemy and a real and present danger to the USA.

Provided we don’t put boots on the ground, except maybe to spot targets and selectively blow stuff up and kill people.

No nation building.


20 posted on 06/13/2025 10:38:56 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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