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Posted on 03/27/2026 12:31:13 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US could achieve its objectives in Iran without the use of any ground troops and expected its operation to conclude in a matter of weeks on Friday, despite recent deployments of additional forces to the region.
Rubio spoke to reporters before returning to the US after he discussed with G7 foreign ministers in France the conflict launched by the US and Israel late last month.
Rubio said the US was achieving its objectives in the war, which he said were destroying Iran's missile and drone capabilities and factories to produce those weapons, as well as its navy and its air force, and expected to conclude its operation in "weeks, not months."
"We are ahead of schedule on most of them, and we can achieve them without any ground troops, without any," Rubio said.
Deployment intended to give US 'options' Rubio said recent deployments of thousands more troops to the region were intended to give US President Donald Trump options to respond to contingencies in the conflict, but declined to go into operational details.
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Without onsite inspection you cannot be certain of compliance.
Leaving the mullahs and Ztheir murdering thugs MIGHT kick the can a few years before they go nuclear.
If we must fight a war then fight to win.
“Without onsite inspection you cannot be certain of compliance.”
I agree - but that hasn’t been ruled out, has it?
Rubio doesn’t mention keeping Hormuz open and out of the mullah’s control as one of the goals. Can that be achieved without ground troops?
I think that’s why we’re seeing more down-the-chain attacks on Iranian infrastructure.
For example, the heavy water facility was the first step in enrichment, but no direct threat and with legitimate purposes. And also the attack on the huge (as in 1% of Iran’s GDP) steel plant facility.
These are all targeted at making restarting a much more distant goal.
Hell, next blow up their engineering schools.
Kharg Island WILL BE blown if there is no regime change. That means no money. No money, no buying stuff to rebuild.
I don’t know.
I would think it would be hard to keep drone launches at bay without ground occupation of the first 100 miles or so of the coast.
You think that the Iranians would agree to that if they are not utterly shattered? I don’t think that they’re anywhere near that level of collapse.
I don’t think you understand the level of denial they are in.
I can speak Iraqi Arabic pretty well, so I was asked to talk to certain officers after the fall of Bagdad, even though that was not my role. (My CO did not trust our interpreters.)
We also just passed the time, mainly to build rapport.
The biggest thing that shocked me is they were completely surprised when we rolled into Bagdad. They had no clue. They thought the war was going awesome.
I have zero doubt the same thing is going on in Iran.
He’s talking like a POTUS.
Rubio mentions the objectives in Iran. Someone referesh my memory of when, where, and what the objectives are/were. Where are they set out? I seem to remember that POTUS started the bombing without discussing with the nation. Not that it is wrong, but there has never been a firm unmoving policy position shared. I thought (through linking comments from government officials) that the objectives were to destroy all nuclear components, facilities, missiles and drones, and the ability to manufacture them. What other objectives were there? Any mission creep? I understand that the objectives of Israel included regime change, which POTUS has disavowed.
Where are we presently on destruction? How will we know when everything has been destroyed or irreversibly disabled? How can judgment be made if “boots” are necessary without a clear objective pronounced?
Gwjack
Mr. A-10 and Lady AC-130 disagree.
How will we know the nukes are gone? We had no idea they had so much stockpiled until they told Steve Wickoff.
I read the following on an investing website. (The discussion was about Vitesse energy.) The comparison was Iraan to Iraq.
Iran doesn’t have the kind of armed/organized opposition, has better military, mixed terrain and has four-season weather (on top of being roughly four times the size of Iraq and more than double the size of Afghanistan), which add up to significant differences compared to previous large-scale attempts that failed (nearly 20 years in Afghanistan and Vietnam) despite having American troops on the ground.
“You think that the Iranians would agree to that if they are not utterly shattered? I don’t think that they’re anywhere near that level of collapse.”
I didn’t say that I thought that. I was agreeing with the poster than the only acceptable peace agreement would have to include condition.
I’m not saying you did.
I think that to get that prize will require a much greater miliary commitment than we’ve made thus far. (I also think that the cost would be politically prohibitive.)
Then why are all these troops headed there?
“Then why are all these troops headed there?”
Well, the fourth line of the excerpt says:
“Rubio said recent deployments of thousands more troops to the region were intended to give US President Donald Trump options to respond to contingencies in the conflict, but declined to go into operational details.”
All the ahoes love to set up their strawman whatifs so they can act like they are drawing some imaginary line in the sand. “If Trump attacks Mars, I am done with voting for him”!
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