Posted on 06/21/2019 7:22:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How in the heck can “porportionate” enter into this situation. Iran is poking a far bigger opponent who swings a huge stick. U S taxpayers pay for a fantastic military capability that must be used to end activity such as this once and for all!!
Iran can send a freight there with a bomb or attack assets in Europe or the middle east as they do now.
Also, you may not realize Israel is an ALLY. That used to mean something when we had honor and determination. How even conservatives pee in their loans at the thought of stopping the worst supporter of terrorism in the world.
Dems and RINOs try to make sure that the appropriations are “targeted” for something other than border/immigration security.
Since our guys were gearing up for a counter strike, I think sitting vulnerable dead in the water to collect debris just outside 12 miles of Iran with Iranian gun boats probably looking for confrontation about, would not be the first priority. Second, finding some fragments drifting on the surface after the event wouldn’t be difficult, and they can drift into their waters by currents, or they could all be faked anyway. Having done lots of FONOPS in my earlier navy days, I am going to believe the Navy when it says the drone was legally in international airspace.
The next democrat president will just give them the bomb.
Exactly right. Iran isn’t doing this on their own.
Suppose there was a way for US cyber ops to control the image and info displayed to Iran’s air defense system. If “we” wanted a full blown war we would display a US manned aircraft outside Iran as an unmanned drone inside Iran. But displaying a drone outside Iran as a drone inside Iran would cause it to be attacked, and the US would have some options.
An appropriate response would be to take out the leadership, those who give the orders.
“Bomb some unmanned facility worth 250 million dollars if you’re worried about casualties being disproportionate.”
Take out one active oil rig.
zaklee
Trump is doing what has to be done instead of leaving it for the future. Sanctions are crushing the mullahs so hard and are such a threat to their control, that they prefer to have bombs dropped on their country instead.
You suspect some of the newer UFO sightings are a ‘vaporware’ weapon? You might be right. And yeah, it would give us more options.
Some ally, we give them $5 billion a year, and they reward us with their relentless spying, selling secrets to Russia, selling tech to China.
China Is Spying On Israel to Steal U.S. Secrets
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/24/china-and-russia-are-spying-on-israel-to-steal-u-s-secrets-putin-netanyahu-xi-haifa-ashdod-iai-elbit/
US accuses Israel of ‘alarming, even terrifying’ levels of spying
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-accuses-israel-of-alarming-even-terrifying-levels-of-spying-9341264.html
Israel Won't Stop Spying on the U.S.
https://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757
so we pull back from Israel. Good stuff. you don’t have alchemy as to the big picture in the middle east. Given some of the presidents we have had, i would spy on us too were I Israel.
we have been here before people in the street in teheran and then it dissolves.
We should attack Iran because they attack and threaten us and are developing weapons to carry out the threat. That’s the reason. When they have the bomb and ICBMs you’ll still be waiting for the revolution.
I am Iraned out. Someone take the last word.
There is a fine line between deterrence and vengeance. You cannot have both.
This is exactly why U.S. military action should be RARE, not as pathetically commonplace it has become.
Our system of government with its frequent transitions of power is simply not set up to engage in the kind of long-term idiocy that has become the norm in these foreign entanglements.
Further complicating all this is that we allow foreign interests to lobby our government buy our political leaders, so our "foreign/military interests" usually coincide with the interests of whichever country is more successful in buying Congress and the White House.
I had a dream about Trump last night. Mainly it was him as a strong father figure with big shoulders and he would make sure everything was ok.
Oh I get the big picture all right, it's just that my perspective is one of American interests first, not Israel (or Saudi)interests first.
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