oahhhh did lowslung hurt your feelings? Cant have a conversation without it immediately devolving into your crazy extremist partisan take? Show us on the doll where 50% of America touched you.

its certainly entertaining watching you and shy melt down into your little baby political rants. Why the mods let it go is beyond me

 

huh? What about my post wasn't truthful? Meltdown harder next time, why do mods allow pointless posts like yours is beyond me

 

“People like you”
Give it a rest dude. All of the people I know want what’s best for this country, regardless of political affiliation. Where we differ is how we get there. I genuinely believe you are grossly misguided if you believe the blockade will put any meaningful pressure on the Iranian regime in any kind of timeline that does not include major backlash from the American people due to rapidly increasing energy (and therefore everything else) prices. You can disagree if you like, but I haven’t heard a cogent argument yet as to how a blockade leads to regime collapse in any sort of reasonable timeline.

On the contrary, the current regime has weathered aggressive decapitation attempts, months of heavy bombing, domestic political unrest, sanctions, and now a blockade. And that doesn’t even consider what they’ve been able to weather in the long term, like an 8 year war with Iraq or various levels sanctions. What in their recent and/or not so recent history leads you to believe that any amount of pressure we apply will change their resolve? Are you just hoping the current tack will work, or are you aware of some vulnerability in the regime that the rest of the world has missed for the last five decades?

Look, I’m no fan of the Iranian regime. I’d love to see it go away & never come back. But I just don’t see the scenario where we walk away from this thing having toppled them, or even having secured their nuclear material, without seriously destabilizing our own country.

 

Your post history dictates otherwise.

 

Every week the US gets another offer. Trumps strange but true “he’s crazy enough to do it” tactics are bringing them to some sort of table. The siege tactics would be my choice. Might have to follow up with a very specific military target to keep the pressure up, but avoid civilian casualties. Employ strategic deterrence/cooperation through negotiations with the Chinese (somewhat complete/mixed results but we don’t know what was set outside of the press). A week in time is much harder for them than us right now.

 

How about our approaching 40 trillion dollar debt? How about housing, which increased about twice in new construction doubling supply, while the money supply increased by 30, sending housing soaring? How about the SS trust fund and the inevitable math with that?

Those are “Hard Obstacles.” Iran is a sideshow distraction for Trump.

 

What a thoughtful retort.

Having a conversation with a rock is more stimulating than attempting to have a dialogue with you.

 

Yeah since forever.

 

[mod input] Putting this thread on ice for a while.