Putting up with a bully comes with a price.
Posted on 09/17/2019 7:42:12 PM PDT by Kazan
On his nationally syndicated radio talk show “The Mark Levin Show” on Monday, host Mark Levin warned that if something serious isn’t done, Iran will take this attack as a first step.
“I will say this, if something isn’t done, something serious and significant isn’t done respecting Iran, they’re going to take this as a first step,” stated Mark Levin. “I’m just telling you. They’re going to take this as a first step. So, we’ll see what happens.”
Mark Levin’s comments came after a Saudi Arabian oil facility was attacked by “cruise missiles and drones,” FOX News reported, that “were launched from Iranian soil,” and after Iran seized control of another oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
Below is a transcript, in pertinent part, of Mark Levin’s remarks from his show on Monday:
“The Iranians are not going away.
“So what should the president do? Short of military action – and I’m not saying we should be short of military action, but if we are – what should we do? Should we lift our sanctions? No. There are five areas of waivers that the secretary of state’s office has argued should not be lifted, that is, they shouldn’t be imposed on Iran. Will the secretary of state change his mind now? I hope. There needs to be a lot of pressure on Iran.
“I read an article the other day – I don’t know if it’s right or not – that Iran’s pension funds are about to collapse, including with the military. Isn’t that a good thing? Wouldn’t that be great?
“So why would we give them a $15 billion bridge loan?
“Remember the gentleman who called last week? He had been from Eastern Europe, I believe. No, he was from France, I think – originally, now an American. He said, ‘Do you remember how Khomeini would up in Iran? Because the French government released him.’ The French make very, very stupid foreign policy decisions, which is why they’re a second- and third-tier country. I don’t think we need to be taking advice from Macron, who’s got 27 percent popularity in France, and has no background on anything, no background on anything.
“So the Iranians are pirates on the open sea. They took another oil tanker yesterday.
“If you go on the internet – you won’t read this in many newspapers because the media are the media – you’ll see they’re kidnapping British and Australians and others left and right now.
“This attack on Saudi Arabia should grab your attention because of its accuracy, the devastation and the technology involved.
“And as I told you before, maybe Rand Paul is not aware of this, the fifth fleet is harbored in Bahrain. Should we withdraw? Should we pull back? How about with China? They took over the South China Sea with their fake islands. Should we withdraw, pull back? Should we take our subs off of the Korean peninsula, remove them too? Where should we go? Where should we go? Just keep pulling back and back and back and let these various threats and enemies grow and grow and grow?
“Rand Paul asked a question over the weekend: ‘Why are we in Afghanistan?’ Is this guy an idiot? Does anybody know why we went into Afghanistan? Anybody? Everybody knows why we went into Afghanistan. Because the Taliban gave safe harbor to Al Qaeda and Bin Laden, and if we take all of our troops out of Afghanistan, what do you think is going to happen?
“I mean, how many more times do we have to lose Americans, heroes, blood to go back and fight the same battles, go back and fight over the same territory? It’s— At one point we had over 140,000 troops in Afghanistan. We’re down to 14,000. We have about anywhere from 1,500 to 2,200 special forces in Syria. We have minimal presence in Iraq.
“We’re not an invading army. We’re not going to war with these countries. We’re trying to make sure we’re not attacked – yes, from 7,000 miles away – that we’re not attacked. We’re not colonialists. We’re not conquerors.
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“I will say this, if something isn’t done, something serious and significant isn’t done respecting Iran, they’re going to take this as a first step. I’m just telling you. They’re going to take this as a first step. So, we’ll see what happens.
“But right now they’re controlling events – not the world – they’re controlling events.”
Agree.
He’s not wrong. Aggressive tyrants always push the edge of the envelope until they meet resistance.
That being said if they step too far out of line Israel is more than capable of dealing with them.
Agreed. Go full Carthage if there's another attack. Kill every living thing in iran. And tell the Turks they're next, just because.
Sorry warmongers, deep staters, government trolls and uniparty types - War with Iran has been canceled.
something will be done by some people, but it will not involved any of our troops.
profile of a weak kneed expert.
Ignores terrorism. Allows the enemy to gain strength and develop weapons of mass destruction. Ignores threat after threat. Ignores direct attacks on the US and its allies for decades. Ignores religious fanaticism thinking they are logical and susceptible to reason. Makes excuse after excuse to not use force to respond to force. Tells others they are chicken hawks, when they are too old to enlist, when they have sons in the marine corps. Pretends to be intellectual in the face of overwhelming information contrary to his own position.
Who's fighting the wars? The offspring of the "12 million" illegals who are now very much fighting age? If just 4 million of them were women and they had 5 kids a piece and 3 were boys--I'd venture you got a nice size fighting force there. That's not even counting the untold million men of fighting age that have come in in the past ten years. Not even counting the many 100s of thousands of fighting age that came in just this year.
Send them. Because you aint getting my kid, not ever.
Why did we go into the gulf the first time?
There are way more military options than just invade or do nothing. There is whole spectrum of military options. You are being too simplistic.
Chief “Sit to pee” chimes in.
I oppose boots on the ground.
I very much oppose nation building.
Although there are some issues with international law, my basic view is that if a nation like Iran sponsors terrorism, then we should respond with terrorism also. As an example: Iranian terrorists blow up an oil refinery, the US Air Force responds by dropping 1000 tons of bombs on the most populous Iranian city. You like terrorism? Have some terrorism.
I just don't want an 18-year War with US troops occupying foreign countries with little to show for it.
You know there is a whole range of military options than just invade or do nothing.
Don’t worry, when gas goes up to over $3.50/gal all these neo-doves will start chirping a different tune.
If this thread doesn’t convince everyone that Libertarians are in control of Free Republic then nothing ever will.
Maybe buffs in the air would work.
I never mentioned invade, but I did say American lives. Regardless, any kind of "kinetic action" draws us further into a military posture, and commits USA and Americans for many, many years to come. Thinking we can do this and then stand-down is too simplistic. Besides - who benefits? Do average Americans? NO.
Do Saudis and Israelis? YES!
We accomplished that by November 2001.
Since then we are concerned with girls going to school.
Putting up with a bully comes with a price.
The USA is now the world’s largest oil producer
Iran wants to sell oil, not hoard it.
Finally, wars raise oil prices, not lower them.
Try again
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