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Posted on 01/14/2026 5:51:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President Donald Trump has told his national security team that he would want any U.S. military action in Iran to deliver a swift and decisive blow to the regime and not spark a sustained war that dragged on for weeks or months, according to a U.S. official, two people familiar with the discussions and a person close to the White House.
“If he does something, he wants it to be definitive,” one of the people familiar with the discussions said.
But Trump’s advisers have so far not been able to guarantee to him that the regime would quickly collapse after an American military strike, the U.S. official and two people familiar with the discussions said, and there is concern that the U.S. may not have all the assets in the region it would need to guard against what administration officials expect would be an aggressive Iranian response.
Those dynamics could lead Trump to approve a more limited U.S. military offensive in Iran, at least initially, while reserving options to escalate — if he decides to take any military action at all, said the U.S. official and one of the people familiar with the discussions. They said that it is a fast-evolving situation and that as of Wednesday afternoon no decisions had been made. During a visit to Detroit on Tuesday, Trump told protesting Iranians that “help is on its way” and called the situation in the country “fragile.”
Asked for comment on the details of Trump’s deliberations, a White House official pointed to Trump’s remarks in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon.
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“HELP IS ON ITS WAY.”
Hmm… I don’t have a clue how but he needs to keep that promise
much better strategery than lbj’s approach to Vietnam.
Sounds good to me. This is how I envision this happening if it does.
Suppose the vast majority of people in Iran would like to be led by their chosen religion and not by foreign influence.
“but he needs to keep that promise”
Why? Talk is cheap.
I would think any U.S. president would want any military action to be swift and decisive. However wanting that does not make it so.
He made that promise over three election cycles.
This idea that we can bomb our way into a Western-friendly democracy in a Muslim country is lunacy that has never worked.
And, if we only do that, there is no reason to believe an even more anti-American regime will replace the present one.
The lie with Vietnam, was our destroyers were attacked. A big lie.
There is no doubt that is the case in Iran and that the majority of Iranians are hostile to us. That will even be more true if we bomb and tear up the infrastructure of the country and don't pay to repair it.
Not even Bush was crazy enough to think something like that could work.
The only thing that might work is arming the protesters and letting them decide their own fate.
There is no “swift and decisive” removal of the Islamic Republic.
> No, he needs to keep his promise us out of unnecessary foreign wars and nation building… <
Yep. But unfortunately Trump has painted himself into a corner here. If he intervenes, he’ll be going against one of his key campaign promises - as you noted.
And if he doesn’t intervene, his threats will carry less weight in the future.
Hmmm. Trump is a smart guy. It will be interesting to see how he squares this circle.
>>”Suppose the vast majority of people in Iran would like to be led by their chosen religion..”
Okay, I’ve supposed it. And it’s a good supposition because it explains why the vast majority of Iranians have had it with the mullahs. They’re tired of living under the authoritarian sharia law enforced by the current regime. The radical authoritarian version of Shia Islam embraced by the mullah’s does not represent the chosen religion of the vast majority of Iranians. I think you’ve finally figured it out. Congratulations.
Sounds like Qatar is using its outsized influence to rein in our president. Vance is doing the same in his other ear. Oh well, the Mullahs will get away with it. Again
What would they expect him to want? Slow and innefective?
That means decapitation of the ruling religious political class and the leaders of the revolutionary guard down to the level that it is no longer has a functional leadership and at the same time destroying their navy in the Gulf and what is left of their Air Force. Israel would assist in this.
PS I lived in Tehran in 1960-61 as a 7th grader. It was great and pro western. The women could walk down the street in Western Clothing or traditional. It was okay. The educated class mostly wore western clothing. Oddly 18 years later I was working in Oman (just the other side of the Persian Gulf from Iran) when the 1979 revolution happened. It was horrible for Iran and its people.
Damn Jimmy Carter to hell and back again to hell. He pulled support of the Shah and thus insured a revolution. Thus 1979 was the beginning of more unrest and war in the Middle East of which came to an apex under Bush senior, Clinton, Bush Junior, Obama Hillary, a brief pause with Trump and more war insanity with Biden.
We are very lucky Trump is again our president.
I have no particular insight.
However, I’m guessing we are capable of knowing which units did atrocities.
Remember how certain nuclear-related IRGC leaders went pop? Yea. No need to get all large-scale. The people who don’t listen to ‘no’ go away until the remaining people learn to listen. We ourselves might or might not pull any triggers. Who knows.
Now in the past this was Not How Things Were Done but I personally have had quite enough of sending lots of our people all over the globe so they can be in places where the regular folk don’t want us to stay while the $##$ers who start all the trouble get kid gloves and fancy treatment.
So much for “no more wars.”
So much for “no more wars.”
One can be Muslim and oppose other Muslims. Violent infighting over who should lead is perhaps a more defining aspect of Middle Eastern Muslims than any particular aspect of their religion.
In any event, in this case the Iranian people have decades of brutal repression and increasing poverty, and now literally not enough water and an almost complete economic collapse, all due to their leadership, driving them to desperation. Being shot down in the streets by the thousands is quite a reinforcing point. Since some other Muslim countries do much better, the Iranians might just suspect they are being led not by their religion, but by false prophets who need to be removed in any way possible.
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