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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Really??? Chris Wallace????
Bwahahahaha
The CPUSA????
When was the last time you beat your wife?
Again so what? You named Bolton twice and yet Bolton has not dssince joining the WH team made one such public statement
Cool your jets
Speak for yourself.
Tell me who in the Trump WH has publicly called for an attack on Iran???
The military attack when it comes will be by Saudi Arabia, Israel and the UAE acting together with the US Navy in reserve protecting the Gulf
You didn't specify the WH. Instead you made an erroneous blanket statement.
Our Israeli allies took care of the Iraq reactor. I see no reason they couldn’t do the same to Iran.
Not necessarily. Unconventional attacks done with intent of “plausible deniability” could cripple Iran, yet leave no evidence of US involvement.
For example, Iran is very reliant for water and power on its many hydroelectric dams. Were we to pop a few of these dams with Russian or Chinese made weapons, while they would still blame the US, international investigators would have to conclude that the attacks were from an indeterminate source.
And such dams are often on a chain on a river, so when the highest one goes, it takes two or three others with it. This happened many years ago in Soviet Georgia.
It will eventually happen.
And in all likelihood Israel will be the one to pull it off.
They’ll destroy every bridge and dam in the country and fry their electric grid with EMP. Once the Ayatollahs have to worry about feeding 80 million people they’ll have no time left for mischief.
I think you’re right, let’s let them develop bombs and a weapon system to deliver them, since they already can kill many people. And let’s let them sink more ships, and instigate more terrorism. So, when the SHTF they will be more able to kill more people. Business a usual.
“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.”
What would be the cost of an Iranian built nuclear device being exploded in or above the USA? Incalculable? The Iranian government routinely threatens the USA with total destruction. Iran is our SWORN enemy.
How are small groups such a ISIS & Al Qaeda far worse than a nuclear armed, ballistic missile capable nation with billions of dollars in assets, determined to destroy the USA & Israel? Which do you fear more: A charging chihuahua or a charging bear?
How does killing one rabid dog benefit another rabid dog? Nonsense.
If FDR had said the same thing - substituting Germany/Japan for Iran & ISIS/Al Qaeda for the USSR - the world would now be a far worse place to live.
“Iran is a conservative state in a region otherwise awash in radicalism.”
Really can’t get beyond that idiocy, so did not read any further.
To tell me unnamed sources or Ben Shapiro is calling for a strike on Iran is disingenuous at best
Iran already has WMDs that it hasn’t used, would you like ISIS or Al Qaeda to get their hands on them and bring them here?
Trump himself says that Bolton wants him to go to war with everyone, there are many other people calling for war with Iran as well, you can see quite a few of them in this thread.
It almost happened when Iran downed the drone but Trump made the sensible decision to call it off and this article discusses some of the reasons why Trump was right.
Because they are a menace to the area and will use their nukes when they get them..
When did Trump say this?
This isn’t about what to do if they attack us, it’s about whether we should attack them.
Trump seems to agree we shouldn’t and I agree with him.
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