Posted on 01/05/2020 10:25:46 AM PST by bitt
With everyone wondering if Iran and the U.S. will go to war, it's pertinent to understand that both nations are already in an undeclared conflict going back more than 40 years. "And often, it’s been a war that our political and intelligence elites have denied exists."
It began on November 4, 1979, when “radicals” loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran ... On April 18, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a truck full of explosives into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon ... Iran has also targeted U.S. soldiers on the battlefield, killing more than 1,000 U.S. troops with specialized improvised explosive devices in Iraq, placing a bounty on U.S. service personnel in Afghanistan, and most recently targeting U.S. forces in Syria. The obvious question is why this conflict, which has claimed thousands of lives, has remained in a state of limbo and why elites are at pains to deny its exists. One possible answer is that the combatants prefer it that way. Iran, for its part, is heavily engaged in proxy war with Saudi Arabia in far-flung theaters including Syria, Yemen, Iraq, the Bahrain uprising, Lebanon and even Afghanistan. It can scarcely afford the additional cost of open conflict with the United States if it is to escape overextension. It is in Iran's interest to keep its war with America undeclared so that it can pick and choose when to engage.
For analogous but different reasons Washington preferred it secret too. Undeclared conflicts are the only way to fight "forever wars," where the object is not the destruction of the enemy but rather its management and containment in such a way that the global public and markets don't notice.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
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Do we remember the fear that Baghdad Bob instilled in our hearts?
I don’t either.
He promised total devastation, speaking for the leaders.
Interesting read. Iran is limited but they’ve been a scab that keeps getting picked. Why we went into Iraq and Kuwait when Iran is the source of all the trouble It’s been 40 years and profiteers were getting rich all along.
If one American even stubs their toe on some Iranian rock dropped here they’re gone.
I think Iran declared war on the U.S. years ago...
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Those are the obvious targets.
Their strategy should be hitting soft targets within the US. I continue to be surprised and thankful this hasn't already happened. I really thought it would after 9/11. That would have been the follow plan after the plane attacks.
I hope our enemy isn't smart enough or willing to implement such a strategy.
Heard a couple of weeks ago that China, Russia and Iran were conducting military exercises...any thoughts about this from freepers? What do y’all think? Do you think President Trump was set up? I trust no one in DC, nope not even the top globalist pentagon officers! I value y’all’s opinion on this. So what say you!
I’d guess the Russians want to hold their friends (Chinese) close and their enemies (Iranians) closer. It’s a variant of being very aware when in strange territory.
China can’t afford to loose us. Russia has already had it’s milatary tangle with Trump in Syria and the results were piss poor for Putin. Iran, that’s a dance with us and Israel. Neither side is that stupid!
Towards the end times there will be Wars and rumors of wars.
Iran is broke. They had to get money from Obama.
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