[Zhang Fei]

Major development, as US troops were withdrawn after 9/11 as a sop to Saudi Arabia's al Qaeda-loving population. This is the Saudi royals extending a middle finger to that demographic. Would not be surprised if Praying Mantis 2 were getting ready to kick off, and they're looking to ward off many salvos of Iranian Scud clones.

[Zhang Fei]

For those too time-pressed to look, Praying Mantis sank or damaged half the Iranian Navy. Duration? 1 day.

[Lurker]

“Would not be surprised if Praying Mantis 2 were getting ready to kick off, and they’re looking to ward off many salvos of Iranian Scud clones.”

I’d be more concerned about a couple of thousand small drones carrying grenades hitting the petroleum infrastructure myself. Or the water facilities, or electrical grid, or the sewer plants, or...No way you could knock all of them down.

But that’s just me.

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[jmacusa]

I am firmly against war with Iran. Our military has been fighting in the Middle East for almost twenty years now. Enough. If the Iranians want to seize Norwegian or British oil tankers then let the Norwegians and the Brits worry about it. Bunch of America hating Euroweenies anyway.

[EEGator]

Great...

[BobL]

4 years from now, at least as things are going, we won’t even need to import oil. At that point it would be fun to leave the Gulf and tell the stupid-ass Europeans that they can go fight the Iranians if they don’t want to freeze their nuts off in the winter.

[gaijin]

Economy doing great
Re-elect appearing achievable

What do we need..?

SIMULTANEOUS WAR NUMBER ***8***..!!!

Won’t this be FUN..?

Lemme tell ya Iran WANT US to attack them.

Sanctions under Trump are working, they’re sinking and desperate.

Ergo they goad us into THIS.

In Praying Mantis, how many people realize that the original plan was to go ALL THE WAY and take the mullahs down. THAT time things were set great; did we do it? No.

Then during the Green Revolution that Iranian girl was shot in the head and 1/2 of the Iranian pop was burning down Mullah mobbed-up buildings —timing was perfect AGAIN.

Did we follow through? No.

But NOW? Oh yeah, suuuure! We’re gonne get biz done?

NO WAY.

They want us sucked into a war that loses the election for Trump.

The microsecond we go to war, just watch as the entire US media now noisily lusting for war turns on a dime and gives the American public dead persian kids on a beach, or the dusty Persian kid, dazed in the back of a whambulance.

TOTAL SET UP.

[G Larry]

Pretty frustrated at Sean Hannity trying to tell the Col. that we should strike Iran's nuke weapons facilities.

And he persisted after the Col. explained that their facilities are very deeply buried and only accessible by bunker busting nukes!!!

[Mariner]

This base will be the locus of a US build-up.

[Wuli]

Why? The Saudis can’t buy some troops and a navy from anywhere else?

[bgill]

We don’t need to involve ourselves. Let the Brits get their ships back themselves.