Posted on 08/25/2024 12:19:11 PM PDT by McGruff
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday pitched a fiery strategy for securing the release of Israeli hostages: threaten to bomb Iran.
Well known for his hawkish foreign policy, Graham (R-SC) implied during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Tehran has the influence needed to entice Hamas into releasing the hostages.
“If I were the state of Israel, I would tell the ayatollah if these people do not come home alive — the ones that are left alive — and if we don’t get the bodies of the fallen, we’re going to blow up your oil refineries,” he said.
“That’s the only way you’re going to get the hostages released — is to put pressure on Iran.”
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Is he trying for the next Dalai Lama job?
McCain: Look I need someone to carry on my legacy.
More like, “Mine’s bigger than yours, Lindsey”.
Lindsey, maybe let Israel do their own negotiating.
Going by the last four years, America doesn’t have the greatest record of influencing non-ally foreign powers.
“Did you get a tube of KY?”
Who will save us from these fools?
This is why we can’t have nice things!
The West has lost deterrence because of this stupidity.
Not a bad idea people. Think of the picture of the house-you know-the house of the sheik in Afghanistan. The pic Trump handed to him.
Actually Lindsey, I was thinking more like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo
In a few different areas. Just poof!
NO warning necessary. The Satanic irani dictators know their vulnerabilities full well.
Graham needs to put a sock in it.
Blowing up most of Gaza hasn’t gotten the hostages back.
Israel has to concentrate on HAMAS leadership elimination.
And make sure the 1300-year-old virgins don’t get any salvageable kidneys or livers.
Iranians don’t run Gaza. They ship some money in from time to time. The EU will send in enough money to Gaza to make Iranians look like miserly infidels.
Grahamnesty has turned into a bigger blowhard than Bill O’Reilly.
Lady Lindsay is always one bad a$s warrior as long as he’s safe in his office.
I see $250/bbl oil in our future.
If Israel blows up Iranian missiles over their airspace, they might as well blow up the Iranian oil fields, because, they are the same.
Iranian missile development and deployment are wholly depending on Iran selling their oil. The oil from Iran funds the missiles, so, oil equals missiles.
Stop the oil and you stop the missiles, and you also stop the support of the Iranian proxies in the middle-east. Stop pretending that blowing up the oil is going too far. Oil that funds aggression is oil that should not be available.
Fantastic idea. Blow up Iran’s oil, and start a general war in the Persian Gulf. I mean, who DOESN’T wanna pay 7 dollars a gallon?
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