If you were Donald J Trump the Great, how would you have handled Iran?

The roughly 20 or 30 Sun Tzu's on this board led by the esteemed ambulance chaser himself will tell you that they would have done the opposite of whatever it is Trump did. And that would hold true regardless of what he did. If he had sent 50,000 troops into battle in Iran they would have lambasted him for doing so, but since he didn't, they will tell you that is what he should have done.

Personally, I want to see how this plays out before I form an opinion.

It’s honestly crazy when you google the topography of Iran. They don’t even need nukes.

A picture is worth a thousand words. I would have sent them a picture of a mushroom cloud with the caption: You have 48 hours to surrender.

I don’t claim to be smart, but I’d have avenged 1979/1980 finally and brought the Shah’s heir in for regime change. I think we missed out on 99% of what mattered. It’s been criminal for almost 50 years and no one seems to want to avenge it and make it right.

First of all, don't start a war if you aren't willing to shoulder the damage of killing American troops. (Not to mention the massive bloodshed from Iranian and neighboring country's civilian population)

If you want war that badly, no one is stopping you from packing your guns and heading on over, soldier.

I wouldn’t have done anything he’s done this year.

Bombing the facilities stopped the centrifuges spinning and the enrichment. That was as good as it gets barring total war, which we aren’t willing to do for obvious reasons.

He did more than Obama and Biden, which is good, but the notions that we could topple the government and the Iranian people were just waiting for us to attack so they could rise up were silly, pipe dreams, and lies.

And doing this in an election year is flat out stupid. If you want to go on this misadventure, do it after November. At least then you minimize some of the political damage and have two years. Neocons were almost certainly telling Trump this would be quick.

Alarm bells should have been wailing in everyone’s ears when those talking points began rolling out. They did in mine.

I might have waited until after mid term elections. Iran wouldn't have the same leverage over Trump and he could have spent more of his valuable time campaigning for senators and congressmen. I dont think Iran would have been able to dig up the nuclear material for a bomb in that time.

But hindsight is always better. And killing raidical Iranian leaders is never a bad thing so I'm 100% behind the President on his actions so far.

Iran was on the verge of currency collapse in December and January which is why you saw the uprising . If we had left them alone you would have started seeing changes ( uprisings) inside Iran by now and it would not be pretty as time rolled on. The war saved the regime and is looking like a windfall.

Damn sure wouldn’t have let them close the strait.

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Damn sure wouldn’t have let them close the strait.

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Closing the strait is as simple as telling the business community that there's a small amount of uncertainty about the safety of passage. Business leaders aren't going to take any chances with billions of value in cargo. It's not as simple as "we will escort you" or "we shot some Iranian boats".