Posted on 09/15/2019 6:34:37 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
You got it. The Iranians may have misinterpreted the Bolton firing and thought that we would pussy out. Wrong!
How do you bomb somebody back to the stone age when they’re practically there now?
> Remember what Rumsfeld said, something like... <
Rumsfeld was the genius who said there was no need to prepare for any insurgency after the Iraq invasion. And after a general questioned that, Rumsfeld shouted the general down.
Why?
Do not the Saudis have their own loads to lock?
GMTA. Exactly what I was thinking.
We should stay out of this mess. It’s a Saudi issue.
The United States is about to supplant the Middle East as the primary supplier of energy for the world. And we have at least a couple hundred years worth.
1. Rumsfeld was a globalist tool.
2. Rumsfeld still is a globalist tool.
3. Read the post you are responding to before replying.
I pointed out that left to their own divices the middle east always reduces itself to the seventh century world the Koran advocates.
Thats kind of my point.
We do not have to kill them over there at all, because the only thing stopping them from killing each other is us. And left alone they will each other to the point that the whole rest of the Islamic world will eventually look like Gaza.
Yeah, someone else might try to step up. Let China or Europe give it a go. They aren’t equipped for it, and China needs a punch in the nose anyway.
It sure sounds like he’s ready to do something, somewhere, pending verification.
If it’s verified to be Iran...what then?
There not only over here, they are in Congress....
Because we have a security pact/agreement with them...
“Perhaps President Trump will first explain why the U.S. has any reason to respond to an attack on Saudi Arabia.”
It’s been a de facto US policy since the end of WWII that we would ensure the free flow of oil in the world.
Ever heard of the Carter Doctrine? Even he was willing to risk existential war to do that.
Oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf is a core, strategic US interest. And has been for at least 75 years.
Effective attack on that flow will most certainly bring substantial war. Whether you or I or anyone else likes it or not.
I would bomb the shit out of Somalia, Yemen, and Iran just for spite of those bitches.
There was a split in his coalition, with the very Orthodox parties who supported him on one side and the more secular types who didn’t like the concessions Bibi was making to gain the support of the Orthodox, on the other side. Because the secularists refused to support his concessions to the Orthodox, Bibi did not have enough votes to form a government.
Anyone who thinks a major U.S. military campaign in the Middle East is an effective tool to address high oil prices is delusional.
Any “security pact” we have with them was signed by U.S. political leaders who were bought and owned by the Saudi royal family. I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because I’m sick of living in a country run by Sunni Muslims.
Step on a scorpion when it is small and it doesn't ever get big.
If you’re reduced to suggesting that President Trump should follow Jimmy Carter’s lead, then you may as well start planning Joe Biden’s inauguration.
P.S. — if oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf is a core U.S. interest, then why have we imposed an embargo on Iranian oil?
There won’t be any boots on the ground.
But if anything ever smelled like dog crap, it was this attack.
I will lose respect for trump if he gets us sucked into another mess in the Middle East.
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