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To: kaktuskid
You mean finishing a war that started in 1979?

No, I don't.

But if I was going to try and find the origin of conflict between Iran and the U.S. we'd have to go back to the 1953 'regime change' operation that took out a functioning democracy because the Iranian people had the temerity to want to control the natural resources in their own borders.

Turns out interventionist foreign policy always has unintended consequences, and in this case we created fertile ground for the islamic revolution in Iran.

Which now some idiots are going to pretend we'll solve with more 'regime change' and interventions. But they'll just create a new set of problems that neocons will promise can only be solved with more intervention...

64 posted on 06/10/2026 11:13:17 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3
Great post.

Just look what happened in Syria. After the Assad regime was toppled, we had the pathetic, embarrassing spectacle of President Trump hosting a White House meeting with the new Syrian president who was the former al-Qaeda leader in Syria.

65 posted on 06/10/2026 11:16:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If I leave here, it’s because I’m tired of arguing with geriatric parrots wearing MAGA hats.)
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