Posted on 01/08/2020 1:54:01 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
“Trump but when he tweeted about attacking cultural sites”
He never did. Here is his actual tweet.
“....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!”
Important to the Iranian culture is not archeological ruins. It seems to me that means political leaders, oil sites, etc.
This is just drama, people claiming he would try to bomb some remote ruins.
“I have to remember that this city existed more than 7,000 years before Islam was invented...”
Exactly...
Too bad they have no respect for Christian sites.
Especially when a lot of the Iraqi antiquities were looted during the second Gulf War. Not our fault, but one of the side-effects of the war.
He likely was referring to mosques...which are known to be arsenals.
I’d love to visit Persepolis; however, the price of having my throat slit, my family murdered or being blown-up by my “guide’s” suicide belt makes that unlikely. moozlums are one sick “culture”...a culture of death.
“”far before the civilization of the Persian Empire and””
Don’t they still have a long way to go to become civilized?
Well, yeah, he kinda did.
"They're allowed to kill our people. They're allowed to torture and maim our people. They're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people," he told reporters on Sunday evening. "And we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn't work that way."
That is not thousand year old ruins. That is targeting the presidential palace, that is targeting political leaders that are a fixture of Iranian culture, that is things related to the Mullahs, that is oil, that is dozens of things of that nature.
The reality is that Saudi Arabia will never be a place safe for Americans to visit. But it’s reasonable to think that the Mullahs will be overcome and Iran will return to the decent hardworking and intelligent society that it is.
It would be wonderful to be able visit sites like this someday.
OK, we can discuss what a cultural site is, but he said it.
“I don’t give even the slightest rip.”
Enlightened men do not destroy historical sites like this.
It’s a crime against humanity itself.
Hopefully Iran does not hide military assets in such places. But even if they do, we should avoid them if we can to prevail.
Be civilized.
Did you care about the relics the Taliban
destroyed? How about the WTC?
“It would be wonderful to be able visit sites like this someday.”
I agree.
That was, I would guess, unparalleled gracious treatment for "foreigners and their God" in the ancient world.
When Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Netanyahu honored him as "The New Cyrus".
Israel issued a beautiful coin/medallion bearing Trump's image along with the Persian king Cyrus.
“”far before the civilization of the Persian Empire and””
Don’t they still have a long way to go to become civilized?
The ancient Persians get a bad rap because they were always fighting with the Greeks and the Greeks were always talking stink about them. We of course get most of our modern knowledge on the subject from the Greeks and that is reflected in how we see the history. E.g., movie “300.” But the Persians supposedly were fairly beneficent as rulers.
Not if my enemy will use my civility against me.
Nope.
I haven’t seen anyone upset when our “Southern” culture was wiped off the map.
Thanks for that info. I had a haircut today by an Iranian gal. She said she doesn’t watch much news as it drives her nuts but “those people are crazy” - I guess speaking about the rulers in Iran. I asked her if she has family there and she said her mom and sister and she talks to them regularly but had nothing but contempt for the supposed rulers!
come on, give us a break. You know the answer to that ........Sheesh!
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