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Iran badly miscalculated. Now it’s paying the price.
The Washington Post ^ | June 22, 2025 9:42 AM EDT | Max Boot

Posted on 06/23/2025 5:38:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The U.S. attack on Iran is another ripple effect from Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The more time that goes by, the more significant 10/7 looms. It is one of those hinge points in history — like 11/9 (the day the Berlin Wall fell in 1989) or the 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States — after which nothing will ever be the same again.

In launching its barbaric assault on Israel, the Iranian-backed Hamas wanted to draw its regional partners into a broader war that, it hoped, would lead to the destruction of the Jewish state. But instead of destroying Israel, Hamas set in motion a train of events that resulted in the destruction of Iranian power across the region. In the more than 600 days since, much of Gaza has been razed and more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed (according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry). Hamas, though it still exists, is a shadow of its former self. Yahya Sinwar, the architect of 10/7, is dead, along with his brother, and most of Hamas’s commanders.

The Iranian-backed Hezbollah, while it did not join in the initial assault on Israel, followed up by rocketing northern Israel for many months. Last fall, Israel struck back with an offensive against Hezbollah that began with the “exploding pagers” operation. Now, its longtime leader, Hasan Nasrallah, is also dead, along with most of its senior commanders. Its military infrastructure has been decimated and its ability to exert power in Lebanon considerably diminished. Hezbollah missiles no longer pose a significant threat to Israel. With Hezbollah essentially defeated, another Iranian client, Bashar al-Assad, was toppled by rebels in Syria late last year. Now, Syria is ruled by a Sunni government with no love lost for the Shiite...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: magaisfake; magalikesbootnow; maxboot; maxbootmaga; neoconmaga
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that “exploding pager” attack is a all time classic. Def in the “combat Hall of Fame”....


21 posted on 06/23/2025 5:58:27 PM PDT by basalt (he "legacy")
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To: NoLibZone

THAT IS WHY THEY ARE CALLED “STEALTH”.


22 posted on 06/23/2025 6:00:49 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: jimwatx

Syria was accidentally lost because Assad’s failsafe Hezbollah had to be decimated by Israel. Israel, as a democracy, was obligated to defeat the guys raining missiles down on their country and sending 60,000 citizens into internal exile. That’s unsustainable.

So Israel took out hezbollah, and Turkey via a bunch of Sunni wackos took over. Oh well! Unintended consequences, no matter subsequent statements by Netanyahu capitalized on by the anti-Semite nitzy.


23 posted on 06/23/2025 6:01:56 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Whenever a muslim murders a Christian, it’s the Jews’ fault! - Nitzy, 6/22/25)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“When I find myself accidentally agreeing with Max Freaking Boot on anything, I double check my body parts to make sure I don’t have an extra arm sticking out of my forehead”

You should read the entire article....then cut off that extra appendage. The headli e is more or less click bate.


24 posted on 06/23/2025 6:02:02 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Navy Patriot

Well said, Boo Hoo Girl!


25 posted on 06/23/2025 6:03:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We need to start charging Israel bigly for allowing them to use the US Military as an instrument of their foreign policy.


26 posted on 06/23/2025 6:05:52 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: DAC21
"You should read the entire article....then cut off that extra appendage. The headline is more or less clickbait."

Yup. Bootie buried the lead further than usual, but by the 8th graf he ripped off his shitheel mask...Bezos won't read that far, and Bootie can keep his job kissing D-ckpic's feet...

"Trump might think that, with one big airstrike, he is ending the war with Iran, but he might be just beginning it."


27 posted on 06/23/2025 6:06:09 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: basalt

The exploding pagers, then cell phones, should have been a big clue that Israel is not to be messed with. Israel is the little guy among a neighborhood of posturing bullies but the little guy is a multiple black belt in several martial arts disciplines and the Arabs mostly wave their arms and screaam.


28 posted on 06/23/2025 6:06:31 PM PDT by arthurus (| covfefe | Y^v/\)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“But one thing is already clear: Iran made a terrible miscalculation by dragging its feet on negotiations with, first, President Joe Biden and then Trump on a nuclear accord to replace the one Trump (unwisely) exited in 2018.”

Oh yeah, they paid a terrible price for playing Biden for the fool.

What flaccid revisionism.


29 posted on 06/23/2025 6:08:31 PM PDT by Bruce Buckley
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To: Navy Patriot

Neo- Cons and Neo- Isolationosts both need to shut up. Jacksonianism works EVERY time.


30 posted on 06/23/2025 6:09:38 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: NoLibZone

Not only that, both China (copycats and thieves of US technology) and Russia have nothing comparable to bunker buster bombs and B-2 stealth bombers who flew UNDETECTED to all radar into heartland of Iran and moved a mountain!


31 posted on 06/23/2025 6:18:37 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP CORRUPT CAREER POLITICIANS. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Anybody know how much money Karen B-Ass’s LAPD GFM page for the ayatollahs has already raised?


32 posted on 06/23/2025 6:20:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
⚠️ Max Boot. ⚠️

For all the people who have been called neocons over Ukraine and Israel, Boot is the archetype.
He's talking all sides of the issue, while siding with "we don't know where this is going".
How insightful from one of the mainstream new's biggest warmonger for the last 30 years.

33 posted on 06/23/2025 6:22:07 PM PDT by Widget Jr (us Trump us)
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To: SuperLuminal

“Obama has to be weeping profusely...
Everything that the Kenyan communist stood for has been largely undone...”
I agree. His hair has gone grey, he’s a sour puss and Michelle has been in a very pissy mood. He lost the election and was betrayed by African Americans.
He forgot his brothers have brains. LOL!
We’re just stuck cleaning up the horrendous mess they created.
Democrats can only attract brainwashed psychos now.
The democrat party is dead.
They’ve been replaced by an anti-American, commie regime.


34 posted on 06/23/2025 6:24:57 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Uncle Miltie
When I find myself accidentally agreeing with Max Freaking Boot on anything...

... it is time to find and read the entire article, thoroughly.
When Boot reveals what he thinks he knows for what he really thinks, intentionally disagreeing with him becomes easier.

35 posted on 06/23/2025 6:25:06 PM PDT by Widget Jr (us Trump us)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All those years Iran spent lying and manipulating the world and now they have nothing to show for it. I can’t imagine how much money they have wasted for this result.


36 posted on 06/23/2025 6:26:23 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVcoFQ5rDWUg&ved=2ahUKEwi3yazV84iOAxWMEFkFHQCEHbcQFnoECFIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1k_0B_o8nkJMLHcobE-Pc5

Peace Through Superior Firepower


37 posted on 06/23/2025 6:29:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The biggest losers are Russia and China. Israel and the U.S. has hewn to the world how useless their military equipment is.


38 posted on 06/23/2025 6:32:05 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: SuperLuminal

Obama: Another DEI hire who morphed into catastrophe


39 posted on 06/23/2025 6:32:18 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: maddog55

They’re Muslims, that’s all they know. They’re a cancer like liberals who are now supporting Iran’s sovereignty and protesting Israel and the US for attacking Iran.

Until ever last one is exterminated then nothing changes.
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Absolutely true, and meanwhile our country is being attacked from within by a Muslim population that is increasing everywhere and is supported by a growing army of fully indoctrinated Marxist-Democrats.


40 posted on 06/23/2025 6:37:16 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Hoc Vult!)
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