On one hand, I say just let it go. Allow them to save face. On the other hand, you could assume they don't really have the stomach for this and hit them back hard. The proverbial "keep your boot on their neck" to make sure they fully get the message.
Those are the extremes. What would you recommend?
The only way the Iranians save face is when there are dead Americans. I think they will keep hitting us until they kill someone.
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Graham was on a few minutes later and called the Iranians “religious Nazis.”
Meanwhile, this from Iranian FM Zarif: “Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched.”
Key word: “concluded”
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That will scare the shit out of them. Even better than bombing.
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About that imminent threat. . .
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We don’t play tit for tat.
I was against Trump’s decision to whack the General because it forces the path of war.
Immediately afterwards, the United States should have demanded a sit down, explained why we whacked the guy, but make clear that any retaliation would not be tolerated. We failed to do so. Rather, we sat and waited.
Today’s actions by Iran were ineffective and half hearted. By design. They are trying to save face in the Middle East.
But, we cannot let that go. They fired missiles at US bases. They only respect strength.
Trump needs to be consistent with his strong hand and send multiple sorties destroying their missile sites and nuclear production sites. In other words, respond 20x fold. Make Iran say Uncle and then we talk about the terms going forward.
Link: It’s War!
Maybe I am not thinking clearly.
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Shake it off. Taylor Swift is my security advisor
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Hopefully we prove to be the adults. The cooler heads.
The Iranians are going nuts on social media, promoting this. Maybe they are trying to make this seem bigger than it is, so it will be accepted by their people.
Maybe we can see that it is not much, and just move on.
Otherwise...look out.
If only this was predictable, eh?
We ain't going to war.
.....we are bad ass. we need to remind them of this fact along with the fact that liberals aren't in charge anymore. Trump is in the process of re-establishing limits and hierarchy that was lost during the Obama Appeasement Years.
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Link: https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1214710917277110278?s=19
need to be briefed anymore.
She is only interested in the things that she can leak to harm the POTUS.
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Thank God. That’s what happens before wars.
Keep in mind that this is all Trump’s fault. He inherited the best US-Iranian relationship in 40 years - hardly perfect, but peaceful and with open, direct dialogue - and preceded to immediately fuck it up.
This war began on 5/08/18, when we scrapped the JCPOA, despite the fact that Iran was in full compoa Cf, against the advice of almost our entire security community and our allies.
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pay for said education.
Man, that is a scary thought. What is the curriculum - how to hate a Republican President?
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That’s not what I would do, but what I think will happen.
I have no idea what I would do.
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That’s more terrifying than blowing up a power plant. And no casualties.
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Completely unconfirmed. No idea if this is true. Hope it’s false.