Since you got the last one locked…
another proxy war…back to my Alphaguess for today.
another proxy war…back to my Alphaguess for today.
Iran
- Thread starter dawgstate
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Out of the many, many, many stupid decisions we made pertaining to the Gulf War(s), taking out Saddam was up there. Should have left him in place, with US SF body guards, and let Iraq fight all our middle eastern wars.
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Yes, Saddam should have been happy being on the payroll and not having designs on all his uber-wealthy neighbors. Seems we could have renegotiated his contract with a little effort.
But then again.... Halliburton.
But then again.... Halliburton.
I clicked really hoping the next thing you wrote was “so far away”. Left disappointed
Technically we should have taken Iran out when they took over our embassy. Then again that was the late 1970's and our military sucked, and we had the Walker family giving all our secrets away. Just look at the botched rescue attempt. We probably would have loss.****
Ike warned us about the military industrial complex...
So help me god I will contra and MCU the hell out of this thread too if I have to
The crazy part is this administration, as did Obamas administration, seem to support Iran. Why ?? Why would we hold Israel back from hitting their nuclear facilities ? And you are spot on about Saddam. He was a good deterrent against Iran. Maybe that's why we toppled him. The Bushes and Obamas are pretty tight it seems
If the 2nd Iraq war is not the biggest foreign policy **** up in US history, it has to be close to the top of the list. The ramifications will haunt us for a long time.
He was a good deterrent for Iran, but he was also a threat to our allies. Not saying you are wrong. We could have kept him down financially just like we were doing with Iran up to about three and half years ago. That's how you handle bad countries, hit them in the pocketbook so they don't have the money to do what Iran has been free to do the past several years.
I happened to be downrange when Iran captured two of our boats in 2016 (very close to where it occurred), I know we had fighters in the air near enough to protect our assets. There is no doubt in my mind we didn't protect our resources/personnel so we could openly send Iran pallets of cash in exchange for prisoner release.
There are a lot of things our Gov't does that people just don't seem to notice. Or they say " well this administration is just dumb" and the facts are no they are doing what they want and know full well what the results will be. They have an agenda and if they have to eliminate a few people, or a lot, to make it happen that's not a problem
We aren't holding back Israel from hitting their nuclear facilities.....Twice in the last 30 years Israel has targeted nuclear facilities in conflicts, and twice they destroyed them. And twice the US told them not to. Israel will do what they want.
Last time Iran launched missiles Biden said he would not support Israel if they did a meaningful retaliation. We are already slow rolling them on munitions. The thought that this administration would turn their back on Israel is not very far fetched. Without US support via arms shipments they would be in dire straits pretty quickly. I would give them all the assistance they need annihilating Iran if I were prez. Especially the nuke facilities
Just in case some of you guys missed this, it is F’n spectacular:
The best thing the West should do is just let these entities annihilate each other. As the late great Christopher Hitchens once said, these barbaric tribes have caused more harm, destruction, anguish and suffering, directly and indirectly, than any expansive empire in world history. Enough is enough.
Yup. Like the great Charlie Sheen said in the movie Navy Seals Bunch of **** blowing each other up like it’s a national pastime.
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