There will absolutely be tourists who “die of a stupid and random act of violence in one of our cities here in the Greatest Country in the World”.
That said, do you not agree that it would amount to criminal negligence to fail to have in depth plans in place in the event of an attack, and that the people carrying out those plans should have training?
Especially in the case of an enemy who has already killed thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of other citizens of other countries in the last 47 years, and whose government has been consistently telling us that they are going to murder us?
Do you deny that World Cup 2026 is what is known as a “Target Rich Environment” that an entity like Iran would take advantage of via a proxy?
They certainly have no problem murdering large numbers of civilians via a proxy as they did on October 7th (and for Iran, “proxies” is just another word for “Iran”. They have no independence. Iran funds them. they don’t act without Iran being onboard. And it has always been that way for the past 47 years. No exceptions) which was also, for Iran, on foreign soil? If they were willing to do that, sexually dismember women, take hostages, and kill with joy, do you feel in some way they would be inclined to be more restrained simply because this is America?
Thank you for your reply.
Absolutely, the best defense needs to be assembled. The leadership of Iran clearly hates us, and likely has all sorts of ideas. I wouldn’t recommend that we ignore Iran.
It is the fear pr0n that accompanies every story tied to Iran that I find tiresome.
Again, we suffered for 444 days and lost good people in the bombing in Lebanon. Both of those attacks should have been cause for swift and brutal self-defense. Why Reagan didn’t bomb them to smithereens (Carter’s ineffectiveness needn’t be pondered) is puzzling. But that was then.
And sure, I have no doubt that Iran’s leaders are constantly scheming.
But Iran can’t hit Maine at 7,000 miles away. The countries Iran can hit seem to have no intent to address them - except for Israel. So why is this our problem to fix? We cheered on Trump’s “no more world policeman” stance prior to Iran. We should go back to basics.
As for Iran’s human rights abuses, if we took action against every such nation we’d never fix our own problems. Further, if we adopted a policy of military intervention based in a nation’s internal matters, we effectively OK some other nation attacking America over some perceived “human rights abuse” here, like the private ownership of firearms, free speech, and religious freedom.
You posed a VERY detailed list of Iran’s attacks a little while ago. https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4370612/posts?page=17#17. I’m not trying to dismiss your list, and frankly I haven’t scrutinized it. You’re a noble FReeper and I’ll take it as goodness.
But I’ve seen lots of attacks ascribed to Iran by other FReepers that, upon investigation, are really from someone else and Iran just takes credit for it to pump themselves up.
I don’t want to underestimate Iran. But I don’t think Iran is this Massive Threat that SOME people - not necessarily you - present.
If I was Emperor, we’d be arming the Iranian citizens and facilitating them going full Ceaușescu on their leaders. That would create lasting change.
Has anyone here put the pen to the paper and done the math on the number of those killed by "proxy"?
It's not a rhetorical question. If 183,000 Iranians died in the Iran-Iraq War while we were supporting Iraq, were all 183,000 Iranian deaths from America, by "proxy"?
(If 183,000 Iranians died by at the hands of America by "proxy", do the Iranian people have any right to feel aggrieved at their loss? Seeing how Americans can cite with detail about the number of Americans killed by Iranian "proxy", does anyone here doubt for even a minute that we would not be throwing that 183,000 figure at Iran every waking moment of our lives, had they inflicted that kind of a loss on the US?)