re: Seemingly lost in all this Iran BS is they refused to stop developing nukes….

I used to believe your line of thinking hook, line and sinker. I was all about the War in Iraq, bought into all of the Israel propaganda for the majority of my life, viewed Iran as an existential threat to Israel and the region.

Trump, ironically, helped me see that all of this has been propaganda for 50 years.

Israel, and by approximation the US, has been saying that Iran is this great threat for four dozen years.

It’s never materialized. Moreover, even if we presume they are this great threat, that Israel’s problem.

Is Israel over here helping secure our border, or helping us in any way?

Israel is a net drain on this nation. They are a secular, atheist country. They hate Christians. They hate the US.

We have no business in this war. They is no logical solution without tens of thousands of troops on the ground. The majority of Iranians hate us.

Final litmus test…the Lindsey Graham Test.

Ask yourself when alignment with Graham on foreign policy has been good.

Great, but they are still some way from a bomb.

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We really need to secure the area and retrieve the nuclear material they claim to have

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So, huge amounts of troops on the ground.

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they should continue to be hit extremely hard, as hard as any country has ever been hit, until they unconditionally surrender.

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No amount of conventional bombing is going to make them surrender. Eventually, we are going to just start making more terrorists if we bomb them indefinetly (which I don't think we are going to do).

That said, if there is no viable uprising, I don't know what our exit strategy is. "Welp, we tried"?

Tech you simply do not understand can be used to meet our objectives. It will be over sooner than planned.