Posted on 06/13/2025 7:05:01 AM PDT by texas booster
A decapitation strike, in theory, bypasses conventional battles to take out the leadership of a regime. It’s the sort of thing that the United States explores in theory, but is careful about in practice.
And that’s reason #412 why we never win wars anymore.
On paper, decapitation strikes, depending on how they’re implemented may violate international law. And so rather than take out Saddam, we spend years and countless lives to usher in democracy. You’re not supposed to target officers. Too bad the other side doesn’t play by those rules or care about them.
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Three of the regime’s most serious military commanders are gone. To do that, Israel had to have actionable and immediate intelligence as to their location on a realtime basis. That has to scare Iran’s regime worse than the beepers.
Scarier than beepers.
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“may violate international law”
There is no such thing as “international law”.
There are agreements between nations, but if a nation chooses to ignore them, the only enforcement is via war.
Published in the NeoCon News.
The decapitation strike “test” was performed a few months ago when they took out the leader of Hamas in his Tehran apartment
Are you with the mullahs?
“Decapitation”...interesting word in title. Thanks for posting.
A morning cup of decap.
Putinista. Go back to Pravda.com with your KGB filth-disinformation and slander
Disreputable Provocateur
Bum
Ah, no.
But not for more American military personnel and treasure being spent in the Middle East. No thanks. Not for that at all.
I take it you’re a bloodthirsty neocon yourself.
The Europeans have the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
It’s “bloodthirsty” for Israel to eliminate a violent enemy who arms and encourages others to attack it? That launched hundreds of missiles at it? That is developing nukes to destroy it?
Do you also clutch your pearls when a Chicago mugger is shot by a CHL holder? Cry about the dead aspiring rapper?
The Iranian regime is a threat to the USA. Good for Israel.
It’s bloodthirsty to deny and support the ugly Middle Eastern wars we’ve lost so many Americans in over the past 25 years. Pretending that neocons aren’t a major threat to US foreign policy suggests support for their reliably bloodthirsty positions.
“Death to Israel!
Death to America!”
You are familiar, yes?
You are crazy.
Let me reassure the lefties in this country: It was a mostly peaceful decapitation strike.
Oh?
Pray tell.
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