Posted on 01/24/2020 7:47:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When President Trump ordered the military to strike Qassem Soleimani, a legitimate military target responsible for the deaths of hundreds of troops, Democrats were up in arms. How dare Trump bait the Iranians by striking someone so close to Ayatollah Khamenei? They were certain that Trump had just ignited World War III.
Republicans were more confident that the strike would, at the very least, remove a dangerous character from the Iranians' forty-year-long war against America and, at the best, topple the regime. This last belief was based upon the fact that the Iranian regime is fragile now that Trump walked away from Obama’s terrible Iran Plan and reinstated sanctions. The economy is collapsing and people all over Iran are coming out in protest. After forty years of a repressive theocracy, the Persian people, a people accustomed to beauty and life, have had their fill of Islam's cruel puritanism.
Michael Ledeen, an experienced foreign policy observer, thinks that the Republicans may have been correct because there are strange doings in Iran – all good if one wants to see that abysmal regime collapse:
The elimination of Qassem Soleimani has produced surprising results. It turns out that the United States received intelligence on Soleimani’s movements from a variety of sources, some within his Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, others from Israel’s vaunted intelligence apparatus.
The operation against Soleimani and his ilk was so well-organized that leading terrorists in Iraq ran for the hills:
U.S. officials have intercepted chatter and received confirmation that terrorist leaders in Iraq have been fleeing the region and have gone into hiding fearing United States intelligence capabilities after the successful airstrike that killed Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani.
Undoubtedly some of the terrorist leaders are cutting deals with U.S. intelligence,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
So, if we finally defeat terrorism does that mean we get our rights back and we can cut DHS in half?
” there are strange doings in Iran – all good if one wants to see that abysmal regime collapse:”
That’s just it, though.
Democrats don’t want to see their pet creation crumble.
Democrats created the current Iran by toppling the Shah, an ardent enemy of the Soviet Union, and replacing him with a Soviet client vassal.
It’s the Democrats crowning achievement in the area.
The key passage is the part where Soleimani’s faction is getting arrested en masse. That’s pretty much par for the course in dictatorial regimes - every time leadership is taken out - the factions fight for power. It looks like Soleimani’s faction is taking hits left and right.
Gas prices in Cincinnati dropped 40 cents a gallon in the week after the strike.
If the world oil markets were afraid of Trump’s actions, that is an odd way of showing it!
“Republicans were more confident that the strike would, at the very least, remove a dangerous character from the Iranians’ forty-year-long war against America and, at the best, topple the regime”
Not true. You had a handful of republicans, esp Mittens and I think Lee and others, upset about this.
Then you have people like Matt Gaetz voting in favor of a war powers act, to handcuff the president from taking further actions in Iran, even though this vote was more ceremonial than anything else.
Maybe a third...he pissed off one of the crazy mullahs so much they gave him up! Don’t make the mistake of thinking that they think/act rationally! That’s why normal people don’t know how to deal with commie liberals.
[Two possibilities:
1) This guy was such a flaming a-hole in his day-to-day dealings that even his own troops could not stand him.
2) This was a good old fashioned “take out the guy ahead of me so I can advance up the career ladder” move. As in the Mafia.]
In a dictatorship, literally anyone in the security services (and even a civilian administrator, provided he can link up with the right allies in the security services) can scheme his way to the top via a combo of alliances, violence and betrayal. And that’s what everyone is doing every minute of every day. Because there’s a big “you’re for me or against me” dynamic in these regimes, no one is immune from the infighting. Everyone has to pick a side, and the sides are always changing, since each “side” is an alliance of convenience contingent upon coalitions of continually shifting personal interests. Kind of like the way Mark Antony allied with Octavian against Pompey only to fight Octavian later for supreme power.
[Maybe a third...he pissed off one of the crazy mullahs so much they gave him up! Don’t make the mistake of thinking that they think/act rationally! That’s why normal people don’t know how to deal with commie liberals.]
There is only one thing that Mooselimb jackasses actually understand, a good whack with a 2x4.
You use a 2X4, the rest of us will use M-134s because there just aren’t enough 2x4s
They can run, but they can’t hide....measure for measure! They kill us, we kill those who are responsible until they quit..
One can not even imagine how U P S E T this has made:
Valjar
0bambi
John Kerry
I wonder what Trump will do next on the world stage.
He is the World’s Greatest Showman, and when he gives a W E D G E E the recipient certainly feels it.
Thank you President Trump!!
Wait, wouldn't that be World War IV?
Trump already started World War III when he called Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man".
No World War III happened right after Reagan deployed those Pershing missile to Europe!
Yeah I know I slept through it too!
Mooselimb jackasses are actually dumber than cattle.
I could lead our cattle anywhere I wanted to take them with a scoop of grain in a bucket and a few calls.
Mooselimbs require a cull rate of 60% or better to get their attention for only a temporary reprieve.
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