Posted on 04/22/2024 5:19:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the American Left’s vision of contemporary war, the West brings too many advantages in science, technology, and wealth.
Why does Biden play Iranian poker with American and Israeli lives?
Answer? He envisions war sort of like affirmative action, in which the less accomplished belligerent is allowed all sorts of concessions for the sake of equity.
Israeli and American military capability, and particularly their missile defenses, are seen as unfair, almost like high achievers’ top SAT scores that are seen as unearned and used to privilege some over others and therefore must be countered or dropped.
Given Iran’s and its surrogates’ incompetence, the administration, then, must extend the theocracy some allowances “to level the playing field.” Biden believes in an equality of opportunity in war, when an aggressor does its best to attack or indeed destroy a defender, who in turn does its own best to retaliate and achieve victory.
These 2 Vegetables Kill Your Belly And Neck Fat Overnight! Eye Bags Are Not From Age! Meet The Main Enemy Of Under-Eye Bags! Instead, the Biden administration sees war leading to equality of result as something to be waged “proportionally,” especially when the power attacked is stronger and Western while the attacking aggressor is weaker and non-Western. The method, then, is to restrain the western power and give repeated chances for the non-western aggressors to catch up.
As a result, the Biden administration’s strategic attitude toward Iran ignores Iranian intent and agendas. So it does not respond fully to its acts of aggression and thereby almost rewards the incompetence of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis without consideration of their murderous aims.
Americans are thus baffled that Biden has not responded to some 170 or more attacks on U.S. installations in the Middle East by Iranian-backed terrorists...
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Because he hates the USA and Israel (instinctively siding with evil).
VDH ping
This is why DEI is directly related to anti-Israel sentiment. Oppressor vs oppressed framework.
The dynamic is changing here and Biden is going to get his ass handed to him. Iran has sponsors who are more than willing to go to the mattresses.
Similarly, recently, third-party communications with Iran were disclosed about its earlier April 13 attack on Israel. Apparently, the Turkish third-party emissaries claimed that “Iran informed us in advance of what would happen. Possible developments also came up during the meeting with (Secretary of State Antony) Blinken, and they (the U.S.) conveyed to Iran through us that this reaction must be within certain limits.”
I actually hope that VDH is not right this time. What a waste of men, material and civilians.
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“Given Iran’s and its surrogates’ incompetence”
Iran has bomb grade uranium and lots of missiles and their pals have strangled the Suez Canal-Red Sea route.
Worry about the incompetence of Biden and Congress.
BTTT
“proportionally”
is that of an attack’s hostile actor/civilian ratio.
An attack that might kill one ordinary HAMAS fighter and 50 ‘civilians’ is improper.
Our weapons have probably killed over 50,000 Russians and probably only a few American mercenaries have been killed plus maybe a few dozen American ‘advisors’.
Is Russia unhappy about that? Yes.
Will Russia respond in the future? Yes.
This is All the Obama ME agenda. Panic Tick Tock.
Our government is infested with America haters and stupid people.
Biden’s top people have been selected in large part by a madrasa-educated guy.
Because the people running him hate the USA and Israel (instinctively siding with evil).
FTFY
Biden is just the front man for obama’s third term.
Biden. his puppetmasters, his administration, the Deep Staters, the Demonicrat politicians are all lying, murdering traitors. And the RINOcrats are clamoring to join them.
We’re all on the same page. Pretty much what I was saying with my #13.
The real question is who is/has been running Obama?
I would not bet against you.
“He envisions war sort of like affirmative action, in which the less accomplished belligerent is allowed all sorts of concessions for the sake of equity. “
It’s the “proportional response” idiocy.
BIDEN IS THE FRONT MAN FOR OBAMA & JARRETT & SOROS
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