Originally Posted by Lowslung

Hey man, you make some good posts & when it comes to the FL350 view, you and I are largely in agreement. However, in the interest of intellectual integrity, I’ve got to stop you there. Iran has, in fact, been a very bad actor in the region for a long time. They have given direct support in the form of cash, weapons, training, and advisement & even direct leadership to proxies in the region who have directly engaged US forces on myriad occasions. Hell, sometimes the “proxies” are little more than badly disguised Iranian irregular forces. While I think, as I believe you do, that the current operation was ill conceived and poorly executed & will create more problems than it solves, make no mistake, there have been plenty of recent reasons to engage the regime kinetically. I just wish we would’ve been smarter about it as I believe we will not achieve our objectives there anytime soon. About the KC-135 “collision”, we have seen no official confirmation that that’s what happened. You may be a bit premature in your assessment.