Posted on 01/19/2020 6:40:15 AM PST by Kaslin
I think so. Peace through strength, but when it's war we need to be agile. There are many irregular forces on Iran's side and we knocked off a few of the leaders in the days following Salami-man.
Somebody would have done something.
What did we do when the marine barracks in Lebanan were levelled?
I understand the sentiment, but Trump probably didn't know about the injuries https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-esper-didnt-know-troops-injured-after-iran-missile-attack-2020-1
The injuries were concussions (TBI) which take days or weeks to show up. At the time, everyone seemed OK.
Pack it in, neocons.
We’re on to the game. Trump allowed the meaningless Iranian retaliation to go “unanswered”, because he already answered all the relevant questions when Soleimani was erased several days before. Our answer, which persists going forward (and not only for the leaders of Iran) was, “wherever, whenever”.
No more neocon wars. Never again.
...and some promote it just so they can criticize us doing what needs to be done and look oh so innocent in the process.
Not true. I have been around victims including my mother and many cannot sleep the same night. Are you saying the 8 days later they all of a sudden had symptoms at the same time. Most likely a lie to avoid having to attack inside Iran. Maybe when Iran tests the bomb with an icbm. We will wake up and smell the coffee
We cannot prevent it, either, at any price the American people would be willing to pay.
This is the same problem as NK. Say they get a weapon. Say they use it.
In a global conflict sense, so what?
Yes, it would hurt. A lot.
But it would also end their regimes and kill millions, maybe tens of millions, of their people.
The US is big enough, strong enough, and economically and geographically diverse enough to take the chance.
He is also not a student of Sun Tzu. Never fight the enemy on their terms.
That’s true too.
The time may come when airmen and likely some number of ground troops may indeed lose everything in taking down Iran.
Trump and his military advisers will decide if and when that happens and not some guy with a pen or laptop.
And if it happens, I will be praying for it to be over as fast as possible.
I’ll admit in my younger days the idea of war excited me. Especially since I wasn’t fighting it.
Shame on me.
I’m older now.
> A non-response to Soleimani’s truck bomb otherwise known as Reagan’s cut-and-run foreign policy. <
The lesson of the Marine barracks bombing is not to avoid cut-and-run. Instead, the lesson is this: Don’t unnecessarily put your troops in harm’s way.
There was no good reason to insert U.S. troops into Lebanon’s messy civil war. Reagan once said that was his biggest mistake as president.
Can’t argue with you about that.
I’s wager President Trump is making plans for the “proper” kind of response to minimize chance of war and leverage Iran’s weak hand.
I’m sure you are correct and the President is also cognizant on the right way to do things - he wants to defang Iran w/o actual war if possible.
That's no quite accurate. Those 11 were ORDERED to undergo examinations for POSSIBLE concussions due to being close to explosions. This was also well after the attacks on Iraqi bases. Everyone is back at work now. This is just another spin to try to get you to believe Trump lied. He did not.
This author is a fool.
Iran’s attack was for some internal political face saving.
We literally could destroy this nation militarily in days.
Iran being paranoid of our response downed an airliner.. that has done more to destabilize the regime than anything in their 40 year history.
Can you name a time you ever saw Iranians openly protesting their regime? Ever????
Trump may actually oversee the demise of Jimmy Carter’s gift that keeps on giving.
I don’t think any nation looking at this situation feels emboldened to take on the US because of our actions..
You have a crazy neighbor next to you spinning the cylinder of his pistol aimed at you that has a bullet in it. You want to take a chance they might pull the trigger?
If this .....
"As a standard procedure, all personnel in the vicinity of a blast are screened for traumatic brain injury, and if deemed appropriate are transported to a higher level of care. In the days following the attack, out of an abundance of caution, some service members were transported from Al Asad Air Base, Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, others were sent to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, for follow-on screening,"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/01/16/us-troops-treated-injuries-after-iran-missile-attack/4496310002/
had of been standard procedure during Korea or Vietnam to hospitalize or pull off the line for medical screening, because a soldier was in the 'vicinity' of a blast. There would not have been enough hospitals and no soldiers left in the field.
To be sure explosives in the 50's, 60's-70's were just as loud and concussive as today, but it seems even with todays defective earplug lawsuits and proximity to a "bang' it renders our forces too damaged for combat.
At this rate we will see the troops fitted with the foam helmets and noise cancelling headphones they give to autistic schoolkids. Millions of Korean/Vietnam veterans whose ears have been ringing for decades to be sure would shake their heads at this level of "OMG OMG there was a loud noise" reaction.
It wouldn't be surprising that the command said no injuries other than a few bells rung.
just that they didn’t all report the symptoms until some time had passed had passed. When were you last subject to multiple 500lb bombs exploding near your position? Just give them the benefit of the doubt as stuff in a battle takes time to filter out. No one was lying.
Iran FYI plans the first test its nukes on NYC, Rome, and Tel Aviv in order to start a nuclear WWII and bring the 12th Imam out of the Well he climbed into in the 7th century so that he can go on to lead the extinction of the human race. Iranian casualties are just more martyrs.
You have a neighbor with a gun in his bedroom. What gives you the right to take it away from him?
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