Posted on 01/03/2020 7:43:00 AM PST by Kaslin
Reagan handled Libya so well. One attack and they went quiet for decades, giving up their nuclear program along the way. Until Hillary screwed things up.
Trump is doing the best he can with the politicians he has to work with.
The message that Trump sent was not only for iran, it was for Iraq and their leadership. They should listen.
“President Donald Trump was not elected to civilize the Middle East.”
Defending our embassy and people that work there =/= civilizing the middle east.
Or because they are there, they dont really matter?
Why was general dirka dirka in Iraq in the first place?
When you are in a fight, fight to win.
to kill our troops
Ah, the old ‘don’t anger the terrorist he might get angrier and... commit acts of terrorism argument. Leaving terrorists alone means they stay only half angry so they’ll just use one bomb belt instead of two.
Along with every other thug on the world stage.
Three block war:
Block 1 - Handing out food
Block 2 - Calming agitated crowds
Block 3 - Armed fighting
Oh, don’t forget Human Terrain Mapping and hugging you inner-child..!
What if on a day of heavy trench-digging one of our guys checks out a PAIR OF BOOBS...?
Come on, let’s really think this through..!
Can’t WAIT for some good ole IRAN NATION-BUILDING, oh joooy..!
Isn’t THAT going to be fun...!
Just let them keep killing US service members?
No thanks.
Why are we still there? Nothing being accomplished in a conflict that was stupid from the start. How many more Americans are we willing to lose to prop up the Iraqi government, which is pro-Iran, because we took out the old anti-Iran government. Everything the US has done in the Middle East has backfired and caused nothing but misery and death and cost us dearly in American lives and treasure. This is doubling down on stupid.
Think North Korea too.
There are some striking similarities between the two nations along the lines of nuclear weapons and missiles.
Intransigent leadership and a restless populace could also be tossed in.
The North wants to live like the South.
Yeah, an Iran with nukes and ICBMs wouldn’t impact us at all.
Lets just stay home... UNTIL!
So what does this have to do with people targeting our embassy again?
No one asked these idiots to do it. They did. They can now go find something else to do.
This is a thoughtful article. Thanks for posting. Although I think this strike was totally justified, I wonder whether it was a good idea. My hope is that there’s some non-obvious angle Trump and U.S. intelligence are following.
Like, maybe they have figured out that these two guys were critical in keeping various factions within the Revolutionary guards (or the Iranian regime generally) balanced or in check. Perhaps the resulting internecine battle (within the Iranian leadership) to fill these posts will help destabilize the regime at a very delicate time for them.
We had a balance of power situation with Iraq somewhat bottling up Iran until George W. Bush idiotically removed the Sunni dictator, and bringing in enough “democracy” for the pro-Iranian Shi’a majority to dominate. Iran could not have asked for more.
Saddam ran a brutal Sunni kleptocracy with an iron fist for a reason (besides liking it): it’s the only thing that would contain the factional strife in his country. Current solution: Install a new Saddam. Otherwise, deal with their mess forever.
It is quite possible that the protestors are Iraqis who want the US out. We shouldn’t even have an embassy there. It’s all bogus.
The author mistakenly believes that the U.S. ever had any interest in liberalizing anything in the Middle East. The reality is that freedom and democracy is nothing more than a political slogan used by American politicians to dupe low-information voters to support foreign military campaigns that are being carried out against the best interests of those voters. The U.S. has been pursuing a foreign/military strategy in the Middle East that is designed solely for the foreign and corporate interests that have owned our government for years.
They shouldnt be there in the first place. Putting a U.S. embassy in Baghdad is like holding a wedding reception on a hog farm.
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