Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
I honestly don’t want to hear about civilians being shot after seeing how this country handled 2 US citizens being shot and killed - especially the male case. Half the country wrote it off as “they deserved it.”
But I’ll entertain it. 40-50000 now? It was 30k before. Who keeps increasing it? And since when did the right wing in flyover states ever care about the civilians inside of Iran? Can we have an honest conversation?
No one cheers their own country getting bombed. While some may be happy the ayatollah is dead, their hatred of his regime is less than their hatred of getting bombed by the U.S. and Israel. They are still Iranians, first.
The U.S. has through history of the past several decades, armed terrorist groups when we thought it would serve us best. And we have abandoned tons of equipment in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, that ended up in terrorist hands. We basically just left Afghanistan with lots of “free gifts” for the Taliban. Ironically, supplied them
with weapons to take out Russian helicopters in the 80s. They were useful terrorists then.
Wow, just wow. Did you really draw a moral equivalence between 2 isolated very unfortunate un-premeditated deaths with the willful and systematic murder of
tens of thousands of their own citizens (30,000 or 50,000, does it really matter)? Really??
NEITHER US citizen 'deserved' what happened. Both were very sad, especially 'the male one'. Extremely unfortunate, bad, horrible. But, you also cannot deny, with any intellectual honesty, that both US incidents involved people illegally
inserting themselves into an active and legitimate law enforcement action, nor that both hold a huge dose of responsibility for what happened to themselves. It's not like either one was any kind of innocent bystander, minding their own business.
Yes, many, many videos show Iranians cheering at the IRGC being bombed. Please, please get out of whatever echo chamber you are in. Just google "videos of iranians cheering bombing", and everything that pops up is an example. From BBC, to Youtube, to ABC, to individual IG/FB/X accounts. It's all there for you to see for yourself.
And again, to compare decades of intentional, systematic, state-sponsored terrorism with US military equipment falling into the wrong hands (at the hands of the last administration, obtw), or even some ill-advised small-scale intelligence actions, shows some galactic-level bias.
This is a waste of time.