The Israeli solution is to pound the enemy's assets until he's leery about even looking in their direction. Trump has eschewed this option. We'll see what the Iranians get up to in the weeks ahead.
Trump has made it clear, to anyone watching, his red line is death of an American.
If Iran crosses that line, then unlike the coward that sat in the white house before him, I have no doubt the US will respond.
Iran has been at war with the US since 1979, it’s good to have a President that understands this.
Posting this vid I saw on Twitter. Supposedly Puerto Rican soldier at the US base some English, some Spanish. It will probably get taken down. Twitter is censoring vids.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1215198458182762497
MAybe he is holding it in reserve.
Iran’s missiles intended to ‘kill personnel’ in Iraq, Pentagon says
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...and in other breaking news, Iran is designing bullets and IEDs designed to “kill personnel” as well.
Good commentary. However, I am skeptical that Iran will lob a missile with a 2,000 pound warhead at one of the bases in Iraq.
All of this BS regarding analysis of how the Iranians really didn’t mean to kill our personnel is ridiculous on its face. One does not fire numerous500-1200kg war head missiles targeted at specific facilities or structures without intent to kill. The blast radius of a 500 lb bomb is 200m, lethal over pressure out to around 40 m, these diameters increase exponentially with size.....
While they may have indeed alerted IRQ as to their imminent actions, and we had some early warning, the act of launching ballistics missile at a specific place is an act of harm.
I believe President trump showed restraint in the aftermath due to political pressure from his advisors, civil and military, and that as LtCol North stated, this was the ideal opportunity to eliminate several key attribute of the Iranians- oil production ( they’ll bootleg oil still) Nuke or suspected/contributory facilities , key infrastructure and all known BM site/facilities.
Since the Iranians claimed to have killed 80, they certainly wanted to. Lucky for them.
The can has been kicked once more. They will continue towards nuclear armaments.
And, I am not a warhawk ( I’m not like that anymore) but I certainly know self defense when I see it.
Trump said attack us and we respond, kill any of US and we go for 52...
He showed weakness, The Iranian govt will take that further, just wait. Probably not conventional, but terror related and thusly harder to pin the tail on the Ayatollah.
The U.S. intelligence efforts should identify the missile bases in Iran from which the missiles came.
Then those bases should be totally destroyed by any means necessary.
With ms Nancy’s proposed changes to the war powers act, the changes to the ROE for the President would not even allow to return fire after being hit. That is even worse than the Military ROE to not fire unless fired upon, but becomes, don’t fire until you notify both houses of congress and wait for a vote by the folks that are cheerleaders of the enemy. Our enemies would jump with joy if the administration ever adhered to that crazy a strategy.
“The Israeli solution is to pound the enemy’s assets until he’s leery about even looking in their direction. Trump has eschewed this option.”
Trump has eschewed this option?
Where have you been the last few days. Check the news for a terrorist named Solimani
This post must be for the fools who believed the ludicrous assertion that Iran missed on purpose.
I say again, they don’t have the ability to miss on purpose!