I believe lowslung is stating, and I agree with him, is that everything you wish for already existed prior to Feb 28th

 

I wish I shared your optimism. Our repeated attempts to social engineer foreign cultures in that part of the world have failed miserably.

Best case scenario is we find a way to declare some kind of empty “victory”, pull back to the previous status quo (IF the IRGC even plays ball with that) while leaving an enormous mess we might be forced to revisit down the line. Nuclear ambition can kicked down the road for a few years.

We have 2.5 years of the current foreign policy, likely 0.5 years before they’re stymied by a non-compliant congressional branch. How long do the IRGC have? ALL they need to do is survive until those two milestones…

As an aside, I’ve been enjoying this discussion and all the differing viewpoints, so mods thanks for keeping it open despite the inevitable political discussion that it’s creating.

 

Humpty Dumpty. Gone. Where’s an adequate out, everything riding on that now.

 

Agree. No cultural harmony with Iran anytime soon, not happening. Doesn’t mean we can extinguish a gangland ego trip without boots and gratuitous piles of corpses rotting in the desert sun. But yeah, time is short.

 

Oh stewardess, I speak jive

 

No, 18th century nursery rhyme icon. What’s done cannot be undone, any better?
Ted: Elaine, because of my mistake, five men were lost on that mission. Elaine: Six, George Zip died this morning.

 

Ahh whiskey and apc….at least you made sense in your mind

 

Well, as bad habits go, Whiskey is the American standard. There is sufficient reason to believe a plausible accord will be struck. But if the answer continues to come back never, there will be blood. For sure. So okay, I hear you. Time to take a stage break. So before I go, here’s to you kiddos..https://youtu.be/MHdXmQ8VPOM?si=Lr_dSRsNZVoDztz8

 

What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!

 

This generation doesn’t know Airplane…and now my next impression: Jesse Owens.