Posted on 07/07/2019 7:27:06 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
While I agree that attacking Iran would be a disaster these guys’ reasoning is up in the night. Iran is conservative? Jihad is conservative? Funding suicide bombers is conservative? Lol!
Name these people
Conservative is a relative term, Iran is a lot less dangerous than other regimes in the region and than many of the groups that might take power if they were destroyed.
Bolton is one.
But you don’t have to take my word for it, you can ask Trump:
“These people want to push us into a war, and it’s so disgusting,” Mr. Trump told one confidant about his own inner circle of advisers. “We don’t need any more wars.”
They tried to get Trump to start one over the drone and he decided against it:
Shapiro is another one:
Ben Shapiro is back to towing the neoconservative line on Iran.
After President Donald Trump decided to not use airstrikes against Iran, the establishment, neoconservative sphere went up in arms.
Shapiro was one of the leaders in criticizing Trump for his measured response to Iran.
The neocon commentator called for a “disproportionate response” to Iran after it shot down a U.S. navy drone off the Persian Gulf.
More at: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/ben-shapiro-bashes-president-trump-for-his-restraint-on-iran/
Chris Wallace:
“Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace criticized Trump on Friday by claiming that there are “costs to inaction” after he chose not to bomb Iran while casting doubt on Trump’s explanation that worries about “collateral damage” were why he didn’t conduct the strikes.
“A war with Iran would be a very ugly and prolonged conflict so it does raise the question: Does the president really have the stomach to launch this kind of attack and get more deeply involved, perhaps, in a confrontation with Iran?” Wallace said.
Democrats criticize Trump for showing restraint by calling off Iran strike
https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-criticize-trump-showing-restraint-025123475.html
More on Bolton specifically:
Trump: “I have some hawks. John Bolton is absolutely a hawk. If it was up to him he’d take on the whole world at one time.“
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1142782018620678144
I support a surgical attack on Iran. Destroy the regime. Destroy their entire nuclear enrichment system. Destroy their missile delivery system.
I don’t think it would be that simple and you would risk empowering worse people even if it was, power vacuums in that region rarely result in an improvement.
My motivation has always been those Marines who were killed in Beirut, over 240 and a total of 306.
I am guessing that there are those in Iran who have wanted the oppressive regime eliminated for a long time. The military cost to them has been a nightmare. They would welcome a regime take down and see Trump as a liberator for the people.
The many Iranian attacks against the U.S.A. were acts of insanity. An attack on Iran would be an act of self-defense.
How much did the ruling Iranian mullahs pay these two clowns - Robert Gaines & Scott Horton - to write this propaganda piece?
That’s what they said about Iraq and instead we got a quagmire that ended up empowering Iran.
If so, this is a battle we will fight or pay for mightily in the future. We should have decapitated them 15-20 years ago. Screw the nation building or occupation, take out the theocracy and let them figure it out afterwards...
Who wrote that article?
If iran attacks the US, or an ally, then military action is appropriate. They already hate us. muzz’s in the area already hate us.
But they won’t, as long as Trump is pres. However, if wuss-face from South Bend, or any other dem is elected, iran will try something because nothing will be done to counter it.
This doesn’t even pass the laugh test.
Look noob I don’t care what unnamed sources say. WSJ or WaPi or NYT or the useless source you site
Ben has zero influence in the Trump WH
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