Maximum pressure? Yes! But, then what? Bush had troops in Iraq and Afghanistan but didn't have them race to Teheran.
Posted on 05/11/2019 11:45:46 PM PDT by hassan.mahmoud
Thank you for the update from that region.
Maybe the Israelis should do it, if it needs to be done.
I’m tired of this country spending our treasure and blood in the M.E., and for what?
We cannot even defend our own southern border.
Cuba and related activity in the western hemisphere is a bigger threat to American lives than Iran...
Damn straight, my first thought was the Saudis, but in any case, unless they attack us (and why should we even put ourselves in a position for them to attack us?), then what they do is none of our business. Let Muslims kill Muslims and leave fewer of them for us to worry about.
The Iranian people, Persians not Arabs, were a western leaning,well educated centrist force in the Middle East. The Meulahs hosed that up and sent them down the Muzzie extremist alley. Given the opportunity and the material support, I don't doubt they would deal with the muzzie militants themselves.
The US military and the American taxpayers don't need another foreign war. Defend us, defend themselves when in the area but don't start sh#t. I've gone to one too many memorial services for brave young men who answered their countries call.
The US and Israel need to support the Iranian people, just as we do in Venezuela, but no boots on the ground.
Iran likes to capture US citizens and military and film them for propaganda purposes. They also like to play “chicken with large US military vessels and small boats.
I hope Iran misjudges and the B-52’s bomb the Iranian nuclear complexes into dust along with all military command and control centers.
I want the US to establish a no fly zone over Iran for at least a couple of months so we can bomb their military into the Stone age.
Hustorically, killing a bunch of people makes for change.
Iran putting missiles on boats (the present problem) is countered by destroying those boats, and killing the people on them.
Regime change? That’s up to those who support the regime.
I’d go along with a line of MOABs from Rasht to Amol to Mashhad...
...Then proceed South until you reach the Persian Gulf
If they haven’t come to their senses by the second or third string, write them off as slow learners.
PS, I’M about the same age as Clint Eastwood when he uttered that phrase:
Get Off My Lawn
(Probably explains some of my impatience with today’s messed up world)
Trump’s already started it. The following site contains the listing for 126 companies that deal with Iran, even against sanctions:
http://graphics.wsj.com/iran-sanctions/
As part of the 2015 nuclear deal, the Obama administration lifted a host of sanctions aimed at the Iranian economy. The move came as a relief to Iran, nowhere more so than in its oil and banking sectors: Iranian tankers once more gained access to European and Asian markets, and the country gained access to some $100 billion in assets that had been frozen overseas.
When Trump’s administration re-implemented the first major round of sanctions earlier this year, it slapped barriers on trade involving Iranian metals, as well as its automotive and airline industries. But Iran’s oil and banking sectors are expected to see the biggest impact from sanctions — and those are precisely the areas his administration has recently targeted.
The White House says it is going after major oil exporters, shipping companies and major Iranian banks — including the country’s Central Bank and other financial institutions. And it will also “target those who attempt to violate or circumvent the sanctions.”
So Trump is isolating them financially and cutting off their escape route. Tack that on to cutting off their food and medical imports that Obama gave back in 2015, and they will be forced to talk about acting properly. Ot they can starve to death. The choice is there’s.
rwood
but no boots on the ground.
Or perhaps we should just withdraw the handful of guys at Al-Tanf and allow the Iranians free access to build their ‘dream’ highway from Tehran to the Mediterranean?
Try using paragraph < p > (no spaces) next time - unreadable as it stands
Maximum pressure? Yes! But, then what? Bush had troops in Iraq and Afghanistan but didn't have them race to Teheran.
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"The US military and the American taxpayers don't need another foreign war. Defend us, defend themselves when in the area but don't start sh#t. I've gone to one too many memorial services for brave young men who answered their countries call.
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Nothing about running away from a fight or aggressively responding to attack.
Act of God?
From orbit.
Love, Lt. Ripley
This isn’t a country. It’s a headquarters mall for global corporations.
Yeah what’s this “WE”?
WE are 23 trillion in debt with a porous border.
Let Israel and Saudi Arabia and whomever else in the area that they cause trouble for take care of it.
Carlos the Jackal (AKA Illich Ramirriz Sanchez) once stated a view common to his ilk and subsequently put it in a book.
He felt that the only way to bring down the “west” was through a coalition of marxists and muslims; that islam nor marxism by theirselves could not do it , but an allegiance, a coalition of forces could.
This alliance is what produced the Iikes of BHO who smoothy went about death to America business from 1600 Pennsylvania.
During the 2016 elections we saw two things: Europe under attack both internally and externally while America was being attacked. Obama even flexed his newly installed totalitarian state’s muscle in protecting his hidden and nefarious agenda by attacking President Elect Trump.
America was and is still under attack.
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