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.
Sure. But we are talking US soldiers. A very limited amount have died in the ME, excluding the Iraq (and Syria) wars . So, what incident are we accusing Iran of murdering U.S. soldiers?
How about 30+ U.S. Navy sailors by Israel as a “oops.” Can you imagine if Iran did an oops that killed 30+ U.S. soldiers? Or shot down an airliner that killed 290 U.S. citizens? When it comes to engagement, we seem to have done way more to them than they ever did. Besides, what group specifically armed by Iran killed US citizens? Maybe the Yemen Houthis but they have hit locals around them, not Americans.
Engaging them kinetically means drop bombs in Tehran. That, I disagree with. Yet another useless war. Like anything, follow the money. Any vocal US politician for the attacks on Iran, study their bank accounts and see how much AIPAC money they took. The Ted Cruz types. Who when interviewed by Tucker of all people, gave cowardly answers with zero actual knowledge about the country of Iran.