Posted on 06/14/2026 7:46:44 PM PDT by RandFan
@joekent16jan19
We can strengthen our chances of this deal holding by cutting all military/intel assistance to Israel, they took every opportunity to tank this deal & will likely do so again unless we take action.
We should also quietly get our troops out of the bases in the Gulf that can be reached by Iran. This ensures Iranian hardliners can’t strike us to drag us back into the fight.
Take away every factor that we can control that could force us back into the war on Israel or Iran’s terms.
Set all conditions that we can control in our favor.
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
- True Christians are citizens of the kingdom of Jesus Christ first, and only secondarily citizens of any earthly nation or state.
- American Christians are more closely united to Palestinian Christians and Arab Christians and Jewish Christians throughout the world than we are to the state of non-Christian Israel.
- Israel was chosen by God from all the peoples of the world to be the focus of special blessing in the history of redemption, which climaxed in Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
- God has saving purposes for ethnic Israel (Romans 11:25–26), as he does for the Arab nations (Isaiah 19:19–25; Psalm 22:27; Matthew 28:19–20; Romans 3:29–30).
- The Christian plea in the Middle East to Palestinians and Jews is: “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). This is the path to peace. “Jesus himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility” (Ephesians 2:14).
- Therefore, all Christians, especially Christian pastors, should speak openly and joyfully of our unity with Arab and Jewish Christians...
John Piper
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/israel-arabs-and-the-family-of-god
The Israelis can do as they please but they don’t need our money independent of recent events. I wish them well in dealing with Iran but they don’t need to be part of our meaningless ‘deal.’
Peace through retreat? Yeah… no.
I remember this Kent guy...an ex-Trump admin guy with sour grapes now. Not believable then, or now. Just another Jew hater polishing his liberal credentials.
He should have kept his opinion to himself because Iran is the one who’s going to screw the deal. It’s inevitable as the sun rising in the East. Iran has been following the Islamic playbook throughout (lie, delay the infidel while restoring power, attack again) and nothing has shown any deviance from that path.
They’re the scorpion who assured the frog that it wouldn’t sting him if it carried him across a river. When the scorpion stung halfway across the frog cried “Why? Now we’ll both die!”. To which the scorpion responded “I couldn’t help it - it’s my nature as a scorpion.”
Iran’s ruling regime is that scorpion that we’d be best off stomping on sooner than when we have to later. Meanwhile let the President enjoy his birthday, continuing to believe that “the art of the deal” will win like it has all his life.
Eventually he has to comprehend that negotiation only works with human beings.
Ibwouldn’t put too muck stock into our intel. We can’t even name who we’re negotiating with 95% of the time.
Oh sure, cut intel to our only real ally in the world.
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Joe Kent, anti-Semites all.
>>”He should have kept his opinion to himself because Iran is the one who’s going to screw the deal.”
They probably will to some degree, which is why I encourage people to view whatever deal emerges, as an intermediate step in a longer process rather than the end goal. IMO, Trump is using this process as a way to strengthen moderates in the Iranian government - such as they are - and weaken the hardliners. With that view in mind, this agreement might turn out to be a good first step. We’ll have to wait and see.
It’s hard to say because there’s so little we know about what’s actually going on in Iran. Trump and his negotiators obviously know a lot more than we do. Some of the mixed signaling we’re receiving from Iran may have more to do with different factions (e.g. IRGC vs. government ministers, etc.) speaking to their individual bases of support rather than a unified attempt to double deal with negotiations. I think it would be a mistake to assume that we’re dealing with one unified Iranian government. We’re speaking to the more reasonable elements in the regime, and they’re negotiating among themselves about how to respond.
Without Israeli INTEL and her Air Force knocking out Iran’s air defenses and EC3 America would have lost more planes and men. What an absurd idea. Cut off America’s ONLY proven ally...this is just Qatari money in people’s pockets speaking here.
No, those are not good suggestions.
“Joe Schmoe say what?”
Well, that is stupid,
What else you got ?
That works two ways, Bub!
Regards,
Georgia Girl 2 is a real nobody with a big stupid mouth..
“We have enough weenies running the show.”
oh bullSchiff!
Tell us how your balls are bigger brass than his btch..
“Maybe Joe understands reality on the ground in ways that only an 11 times deployed ex-CIA special operator can.”
The technology of war has changed.
Any Russian that visibly moves near a Ukrainian front line doesn’t typically do so for long.
Ukraine takes out Russian refineries over 1,000 miles from Ukraine and no Ukrainian boot has to touch the sacred soil of Mother Russia to do so.
He has America’s best interest in heart.
Is that you Joe? 😆
Yep!
And you laughably will keep claiming you don’t have an agenda?
As long as the person is antisemtic, you support them. Seems to be the only consistency in your postings. From Thomas Massie to Nick Feuntes to George Galloway to Joe Kent...the only consistency.
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