Posted on 07/07/2019 7:27:06 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
Iran is a conservative state in a region otherwise awash in radicalism. Any military action undertaken by the United States or its allies against the regime in Tehran will represent a grave error.
Sponsorship of terror organizations or extremist groups is a hallmark of nearly all Middle Eastern states. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait have both lent financial and material support to Sunni extremist groups involved in the Syrian Civil war, Yet both remain in good standing as U.S. allies. Even Israel has aided rebels groups in Syria near its border, though Jerusalem denies that it is supporting extremists. Iran is not beyond reproach, for it has maintained relationships with Hezbollah and Hamas. However, these groups, while on the State Department’s terrorist list, do not threaten the United States.
(This first appeared in June 2019.)
The claim that the Iranian regime harbors or supports Al Qaeda is patently absurd and easily disproven.
Prior to the start of the Global War on Terror, Iran supported the foremost adversary of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, the confederation of warlords known as the Northern Alliance. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Iranian government handed over photocopies of three hundred passports associated with suspected Al Qaeda members to the United Nations. Of these three hundred, many would be forcibly deported back to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. In an additional gesture of good will, the Iranian regime offered to provide search and rescue support, humanitarian relief and targeting assistance in the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda to then-Deputy Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Ryan Crocker. America was initially receptive, accepting Iranian assistance in the Bonn Conference that oversaw the creation of the post-Taliban Afghan government.
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No, you are not at all serious. You’re lacking in the skills of critical thinking and deductive reasoning.
Further discussion of adult topics with you is a frivolous waste of time.
Sorry stopped reading right there. That is such a .B.S. statement that I won't continue on. But seriously, President Trump is not, let me repeat, NOT, going to get the U.S. into a war with Iran, PERIOD!!!! But he will get extremely tough on Iran with massive sanctions.
LOL, that is almost the exact statement I made. Iran is an antagonist in many countries beyond it’s borders.
“That’s a cheap shot”
It was flippant but making a point.
We can be against useless military action without writing a love letter extolling the virtues of the Ayatollahs.
Farcesensitive
Since Jun 27, 2019
Just because I can’t remember every terrorist group in the world and which ones attacked us in Iraq so I ask a question?
Further discussion of adult topics with you is a frivolous waste of time.
It isn’t writing a love letter extolling the virtues of the Ayatollahs to point out that there are even worse people who will benefit if we meddle.
And if we attack their WMDs might fall into the hands of people who will use them.
Not even close to what I was thinking.
Then whatever you were thinking was wrong.
I asked a question because I didn’t know the answer.
No, it's actually becoming clearer with every post you make.
IMHO Zero normal people have any interest in a war with Iran.
Any attack on Iran would be far too costly and only end up benefiting Al Qaeda and ISIS among other groups far worse than Iran.
America would lose on both counts.
Really? You would prefer Iran with Nukes?
The 23 Oct 1983 account needs to be paid.
Trump doesn’t seem to think we need to attack them to prevent that, what makes you think we do?
Even if we end up worse off?
Vengeance is an unwise motivator in foreign policy.
Unfortunately Washington D.C. is full of abnormal people.
“ if Carter hadn’t decided to meddle the Shah would still be there instead of the current regime.”
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The fall of Shah had very little almost nothing to do with Jimmy Carter government’s meddling.
I disagree but even if you are right that doesn’t change the principle, Iran was empowered and ISIS took root because we decided to topple S. Hussein.
Never be too eager to destroy something because what replaces it might be much worse.
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