Posted on 01/08/2020 8:28:40 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Vice President Pence said Wednesday that intelligence is showing that Iran is directing its associated militias not to attack U.S. targets in the week after Gen. Qassem Soleimanis death.
Pence told CBS Evening News that the militias, of which Soleimani was the primary leader, are being instructed to hold back on striking the U.S.
Frankly, were receiving some encouraging intelligence that Iran is sending messages to those very same militias not to move against American targets or civilians, he said. And we hope that that message continues to echo.
CBSs Norah ODonnell asked the vice president if the strike authorized by President Trump to kill Soleimani was like taking a baseball bat to a hornets' nest, referring to the Iranian proxy militias.
Pence acknowledged the challenge of facing the militias but said the U.S. has made clear that it will not tolerate violence.
But were sending a very clear message as we did with those five airstrikes to militia bases, he said.
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Wow. Trump is a stable genius.
Prediction: Before the end of summer, Trump will be negotiating some kind of grand bargain with Iran.
With Saudi Arabia and Israel sitting down as well.
Churchill said Muslims are at your throat or at your feet. Trump has them at his feet.
The Democrats are besides themselves in trying to denigrate, what is clearly good news for America. Doing the right thing, will always place you ahead of evil.
Isn’t it incredibly instructive to watch the Democrats turn the universe upside down to avoid acknowledging Trump is doing GOOD stuff?
They would rather drink the bizarre than accept the sanity of Trump’s decisions.
Bump
Uh, no shit. We already knew that from their face-saving weak missle response. Good, don't want it to escalate, and seems the Mulllahs don't want to be deaded, which was our next step.
When you make it clear you used .001% of your power to take out an opposition leader then they may SAY all kinds of stuff but know if we go to 1% they are screwed.
Thus, President Trump chuckles at Iran’s bluster but is clear they are like screaming children.
I’m beginning to wonder if Iran had us take out Soleimani .
The craft of a master is not imposing dominance, but winning submission.
Iran on the left, USA on the right.
I remember seeing that video when that happened.
The little punk was NOT expecting what he got and for all his *toughness* cried like a little girl when he got up.
I've heard that theory floated about.
I would not be surprised.
Churchill was talking about the German Army when he said that.
"By its sudden collapse, the proud German army has once again proved the truth of the saying, 'The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet'.'
What Churchill thought about Islam:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), Volume II pp. 248250
(This passage does not appear in the 1902 one-volume abridgment, the version posted by Project Gutenberg.)"
I saw a great meme in the last couple of days along the lines of You spend your decades-long career working your way up to the top of Quds, then get smoked by a 21-year old senior airman hopped up on hot pockets and Mt. Dew.
LOL! Rings true!
FWIW, I trust Pence more than I do FNC.
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