Are people who aren’t “Stupid Boomers” (in your words) people who don’t remember things like 1983 Beirut attack which killed 241 Americans, 1984 Kuwait Airways Flight 221, 1985 TWA Flight 847 in which US Navy Diver Robert Stethem was shot in the head and dumped on the tarmac, 1985 kidnapping of William Buckley in Beirut, 1988 Kidnapping and Murder of USMC Col. Higgins, 1995 Kfar Darom Attack that murdered an American, 1995 Ramat Eshkol attack that murdered three Americans, 1996 Dizengoff shopping center attack that wounded two Americans, the 1996 Khobar Towers attack killing 19 Americans...actually, I could go on and on...but the question remains-are those the people other than “Stupid Boomers” who can’t remember those things and view them as ancient history?
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Why weren’t these actions dealt with in a relevant time frame?
Now that Trump’s reckless actions on behalf of Israel aren’t working as planned, the pro war crowd is now picking up history books and making a very weak case for the current mess.
Trump initiated this gamble at behest of Israel, with zero input from our representative government or the American people.
The latter two groups are now going to have a say in this matter November.
Sedition bump
Democrats should be running away with this Election, but they are not. The Marxism issue is working. If only President Trump we’re a nasty bastard , and not such a nice guy.
These things should have been dealt with in a relevant time frame but due to general lack of spine they weren’t.
I fully understand why Iran never paid for their gross violations of international mores when they invaded the US Embassy and took hostages in 1979. I had grown up as a military brat, was overseas during Vietnam, and had served up until a couple of months before the hostage taking, so I was well tuned into the national sentiment on warfare, and saw the results of that while I was in.
America had not heart for action against Iran. It was too close to Vietnam, and it wasn’t going to happen. I didn’t expect Carter to do anything, and I understood why Reagan didn’t initially.
But Presidents afterwards had little to no excuse not to when it was warranted later, and that showed as weakness.
If you are one of those people who think Trump was led by the nose into this by Israel instead of being given information and deciding it was time to act, you aren’t going to change your mind regardless of information because you’ve made up your mind if you embrace that narrative.