re: IRAN: Why are we about to go to war with them?

Maybe it’s best to wipe out the regime while we can before they continue to be a thorn in our side forever and, eventually, develop a nuke.

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Why are we about to go to war with them?

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Because Bibi said so and Israel owns our government.

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Realpolitik-They are our geopolitical enemy. They have kidnapped and murdered us for decades. They have brought Shia fundamentalist violence to all their Sunni neighbors, destabilized the region, and kept Israel and Yemen and Lebanon and others so unstable through proxy groups like Hezbollah, that we have to spend untold billions maintaining peace and securing shipping in the region. We also finally have the Saudi Kingdom ready to do peace accords that can change the region and stabilize the entire region and make it infinitely more prosperous and freer. And a King who loathes Iran and is ready for post-Mullah peace. And Iran is tottering. So yeah, it's what we've been waiting for-our mortal enemy at its weakest point and an opportunity for regional stability we would not be likely to see again for decade. Pretty simple. We have the power to achieve this-Trump understands that-and so we wait. Theoretically, the Mullahs could always abdicate and make this all a moot point, right?

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I will not disagree with any of this. I will add this though. If all of these things are true, are there any questions as to the timing of Netanyahu’s visit and the immediate aggressive stance we resumed thereafter? The protests almost immediately after the talks that quickly turned violent can be chalked up to coincidence, but nonetheless suspicion about the quickness of these (unrelated?) events doesn’t seem irrational.

Sunnnin bout an eye and a pack

I am in my late 60's. We have been going to war in the middle east with the wrong people.

The mullahs have exported their lunacy to the rest of the world and will continue, if they remain in power. They nearly completed a nuclear weapon and if given enough time will eventually succeed. At a minimum the mullahs have to go.

I mean, Israel as the source of ALL things puppeteering, clandestine, nefarious, scheming and conniving is kind of mother's milk to a very large percentage of the American Right in 2026. Including the most vocal portion of this board. So, if people want to chalk up eliminating the reality of 50 years of Mullah-terror and violence aimed directly at the US as stemming from a single meeting with Netanyahu, well so be it. We have been waiting for this moment, through the administrations of both parties, and now it is here. And The Saudi Kingdom is every bit as engaged in this as Israel is, just in a political way. The Sunni country ruling class are tired of this shite and events have conspired to give us this opportunity. It is genuinely a historic opportunity for peace between Sunni-Shia-The Saudi Kingdom and Iran- every bit as much as the Jews of Israel.

How many days till the USS Ford arrives?

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Their country had been invaded and overrun by the Soviet Union - our biggest geopolitical foe during that era. Not only that, the Mujahideen weren't exporting terrorism to the four corners of the earth during that period. They were simply defending their homeland from invasion.

With all of that said, that doesn't mean we haven't made our mistakes and supported terrible people in the past to achieve our own ends. That being said, I don't think we have ever supported groups of people for the sole purpose of wiping an entire nation off the face of the earth to include its population. So please spare me the whataboutisms.

Let's also ignore the fact that they have been engaged in the killing of their own citizenry, potentially in their tens of thousands, since the beginning of the year.

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Everyone has their reasons.

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So, if people want to chalk up eliminating the reality of 50 years of Mullah-terror and violence aimed directly at the US as stemming from a single meeting with Netanyahu, well so be it.

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People may very well do that. I did not. I stated that viewing the linear fashion of those few events with suspicion is not irrational. Nothing else, including nothing disagreeing with the longstanding terrorist nature of Iran or the coalition of their geopolitical rivals.