[Paladin2]

#0. Spike the Well in Qom.

[Tours]

Mr. President, please no more idiotic wars in the Middle East.

We don’t need to be supporting the crazed Wahhabi Saudis in their bombing of the Houthis.

Another war in the Middle East, unless our forces are directly attacked, will result in Trump losing all credibility with a very significant percentage of the electorate including myself.

[pissant]

It is an excuse to tear up the ‘Iran Deal’ to free us to place sanctions on as we see fit.

[MtnClimber]

I don’t see a way that Iran’s actions against Israel, Europe, USA and Sunni Islam countries does not start a huge war. Will Russia and China side with Iran? Will Iran do this on purpose to cause the world disorder that is supposed to bring the 12th imam and the beginning of the end of the world they dream of?

[gaijin]

Operation Praying Mantis II..!!!

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[ETL]

Aug 2015...

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From Real Clear Politics, Sept 10, 2015...

"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.

In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.

The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/iran_deal_throws_sparks_on_mideast_tinderbox_128034.html

[dila813]

I have no doubt that Israel is going to fly with us in secret if needed, just refuel their planes and they will do the work

[BeadCounter]

I read Buchanan’s column in full. I think he’s right. Strong words so far. We will see.

Little more than sanctions, if Israel is so bothered by them, maybe they need to do something.

[WENDLE]

I am not happy with this. What the hell is Flynn talking about? On “Notice”of What. I want to warn Trump. This Glaobalist jerk may have infiltrated to start this crap. 1. it is not our business to tell sovereign nations what to do unless they screw with THIS NATION!! 2. I don’t give a flat flying flip about those G damned Saudis that attacked our nation with those Wahhabi bastards and royal Family members on 911 and killed 3000 Americans - more than Pearl Harbor. We should have turned those bastards to GLASS!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The British Empire at its peak had an effective technique against aggressive enemies: a non-linear response.

That is, if you directly fight back against an attack, then enemy will be ready for you and it may cost you dearly. But if you “hit ‘em where they ain’t”, you can inflict expensive harm on them where they are not prepared.

This being said, Iran has some impressive vulnerabilities not obvious to most people. Dams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in_Iran

Iran is very reliant on dams, both for electrical power and for water, which is a weak point for them.

If you’ve seen the classic movie “The Dam Busters” (1955), while the technology has certainly changed, dams remain a “hard target”. Typically very thick on the bottom, tapering upward, they need to be attacked high enough to penetrate, but low enough so that the water behind them will tear the rest apart.

On the plus side, dams often appear in a chain on a single river, so that if one higher up bursts, it might tear down one or more of the lower dams as well.

[353FMG]

Mr. President, don’t make war — make jobs, jobs, jobs.

There are still many unemployed in Texas in the oil industry.

[RushingWater]

Buchanan is spot on. Flynn is an idiot.

[WENDLE]

Buchanan is right. I am on a Trump high right now but if this squirrel flynn screws up again with this “support the Saudis” crap== again , I am going to start eating lynn like a steak. This is bull crap. These saudi bastard are THE ENEMY!!

[faithhopecharity]

to want to avoid unnecesary conflict is something i understand and can applaud, except that .....
it cannot safely be carried to extremes...

when you have a bunch of very very dangerous and hostile IslamoNazis like the ruling clique of Iran...threatening to “eliminate the Great Satan” (and other nations)...but USA as their FIRST, TOP priority...as their “Great Satan” — and after Iran has published their list of their top 6 targets in USA (NYC, ChiTown, LA, SF, WashDC and I think it was Boston)
and after they’ve broken their “deal” with Obama (A DEAL THAT IS NOT WITH USA, only with their IslamoNazi BF Obama)
then......
we will probably have to take out their WMD’s (Nuclear bombs and ICBM”s that Obama has financed for them)

or else they will take us out, as they continually threaten or promise to do, with those same WMD’s

and PatB ...is a very bright fellow but cannot cannot cannot be entrusted with American defense decisions, he is an eternal isolationist and that is what got us into so much trouble (being unprepared and having done nothing to stop) WW2. The original Nazis could have been taken out almost anytime in the 1930’s, but nobody including USA wanted to do it....these IslamoNazis can be taken out (or at least, their worst weapons can be taken out) now.....

(we MUST learn from history or else, as we all know, we will be doomed to repeat it)...

we live in an all-too-real world, and putting one’s head in the sand when such seriously dangerous and insane people are threatening to nuke us.................only leaves our butts up in the air (until, of course, we get them blown off us for good)

just saying, listen to Buchannan on a lot of things, but please NOT national defense/foreign policy. He’s a winner on maybe 500 things but he’s a dead loser on this one

[odds]

I’ve a lot of time for Jim Mattis, He is savvy and is on record saying he thought the war in Iraq was a strategic mistake, but had to go along with it because of “higher powers”.

I’d like to see Mullahs’ regime in Iran dismantled, but do not think militarily invading Iran to do so is a good strategy, at all.

Not only because it will take Decades for the US to stabilize the situation in that region in general, and millions upon millions will be killed, it will also embolden the Sunnis & Wahhabist/Salafists such as: Saudis, Gulf states and alike, who are Known to train, fund and support ISIS & AQ.

IF the US wants to further empower the Wahhabi/Sunni/Salafists, in the ME, North Africa, supported by Saudis/Gulf States, and by default in the West, by attacking Iran, then do it.

But, we don’t live in GWB era. And, the Iran regime is not Saddam or Gaddafi. The consequences all-around will be devastating.

[himno hero]

Gotta muse.
Iran test fires an ICBM and UN reports in dismay it’s failure. It’s just time before the OIC is fully nuclear.

[pgkdan]

If Rex Tillerson is not to become a wartime secretary of state like Colin Powell or Dean Rusk, he is going to have to speak to the Iranians, not with defiant declarations, but in a diplomatic dialogue.

The problem is that Iran is not interested in diplomatic dialogue with the US. At all. Even when they were in the middle of negotians with obama and kerry seeking a deal that would end sanctions and gain them billions from us the mullahs were still leading crowds in chants of "Death to the USA".

This won't end well.