AP and the NYT’s have labeled the protestors as “mourners”
I remember hearing about, in France, when a bunch of our guys landed on Omaha Beach, it caused some German invaders to react even more violently.
In inciting video perhaps?
We could call them dust if they prefer?
“Protestors?”
No.
Paramilitary units.
US troops fired tear gas to disperse a crowd that got into a reception area in the compound, If they were inside the compound,the troops should have been firing bullets! It is way past time we stop putting our people at risk without being willing to use the force necessary to protect them!
As Pakistani Lanny use to say, "Where's the poof?"
I admire the sheer bravery of the mullahs of Iran.
They know if they step 1/10th of an inch over an ill-defined and therefore CHANGEABLE line, hell’s a comin’.
And the thing is, they won’t know where that line is until they are over it. But they know it’s out there in the hazy distance somewhere.
Iran has been conditioned by the past to expect proportional responses to their criminal incitements. After all, it’s official US foreign policy everywhere.
But one day some POTUS will decide proportionality allows an adversary to control the intensity of breadth of conflict.
And that POTUS will seize back control.
No country in the world is responsible for more US military deaths than Iran. And they’ve never been party to US military engagement.
The American people hold more animus toward Iran than any other country, maybe more than all others combined. It’s part of our folklore and culture now.
And that amorphous line out there on the horizon looms darkly.
Weapons free.
What about us being angry about Iran’s initial attack on our guys?
Iraq has been taken over by Hezbollah. I don’t think GWB was evil, he was just way too trusting, and went into Iraq on information from the CIA (which later turned out to be false). Bush trusted everybody, especially his enemies. And his biggest mistake was to let them enshrine Islam in their constitution.
But then, I think Bush was the original “Islam is the religion of peace” guy. Parroting a slogan probably taught to him by the Muslim Brennan.