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Iranian assassination ill-advised

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by asterisktom, Jan 3, 2020.

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  1. church mouse guy

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    Thank you, Kentucky!

    After the Iranians launched two terrorist attacks against Jews in Buenos Aires, the Israeli Embassy and a couple of years later a Jewish community center, former President Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner took $500,000 cash in Caracas from the Iranians to forget about it. She is accused in the assassination of Jewish special prosecutor Alberto Nisman in 2015. She is a Peronist like Pope Francis, if you want to know how evil the Peronists are. Right now she back in power as the vice-president. Things got hot for her crooked daughter who went to Cuba for "medical attention." The other day Cristina went to Cuba to visit her daughter. A whole bunch of Iranian high officials, which I listed above, are wanted by Interpol for murder, which Nisman did get done before he himself was murdered. So Iran is murdering people all over the world. I know Jimmy Carter wouldn't do anything but I am so happy that President Trump did something.
     
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    I don't have time to answer all these posts, but this one stuck out.

    "Terrorism" is one of those trigger words that generate more heat than light ... or precision. Certainly Iran and Iraq are guilty of much of it. But we are too. That is, if you really stop to think what terrorism is - the causing of terror. What do you think our drones do to the thousands of civilians in these countries? I worked with an Iraqi man in New Mexico who could tell quite a few tales about life in his country, the buzzing sound of the drone that can be heard far away. Is that not terror? Never knowing when or where that sound is merely the precursor to death.

    Yes, we take out the bad guys. But for every bad guy we also take out a number of uninvolved civilians. And then the relatives of those innocents killed now have a reason to hate us. Do you not see how this makes us terrorists?

    And, yes, to quote you We "never pay a personal price for all the horrors [we] bring upon innocent civilians."
     
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    The area the state department wanted Americans citizens to leave was Baghdad and the immediate surrounding area. They had intel that Soleimani had attacks planned on US citizens in this area.

    The area that will be safer now that Soleimani is dead is the entire middle east. These two "areas" are not the same, so no, I don't see the contradiction.



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    Pompeo said "Americans in the Middle East" (per Business Insider) would be safer.
     
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    Every president is a godsend.

    Trump reminds me, maybe, of Jehu. He is not what he pretends to be, but he does some good in cleaning house. But not nearly as much as he said he would do.

    And my biggest issue with Trump is the thing he said he would not do - but does, despite his campaign promises. Speaking of his continuing our pointless wars.
     
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    Maybe you don't.
     
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    I guess you have an irony deficiency.
     
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    Tom, what do you think war does? All war is waged against civilians. In America's history, no one knew this better than William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman's "total war" doctrine did not spare any military asset or civilian asset that could be used to support the enemy militarily. The Romans did this. The Carthaginians also. Truly, all war is hell. Terrorism as we know it is different. It is not concerned with a military objective. It is not about removing a threat or retaliating against an attack. It is purely ideological/political in nature. The attack that took out Soleimani was a military attack; an attack against an Iranian military asset that posed a real credible threat to American personnel and interests.

    I would say that the American Civil War was the judgment of God on our nation for the sin of man-stealing (slavery). The devaluing of human life and the godlessness that permeates our society is the result of America closing its heart to the murder of nearly 60,000,000 unborn babies. These things are real consequences of sin but they do not equate as easily to what happens during war time.
     
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    Some Dems wage war. Harry Truman dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan, as you know. Obama took out Osama. Clinton took out Epstein. Pelosi took out decency & kindness.
     
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    You make it sound that war is inevitable like earthquakes and plagues. Yes, I know what war is about. The question is not What? but Why. Specifically, why are we in this ever-spiraling entanglement in the Middle East region. I would love for us to have a president to have the backbone to say No to the military-industrial complex insatiable apatite for breaking foreign houses houses and heads for selfish monetary gain. I had hoped that Trump would have been that man. He talked like it on the campaign trail.
     
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    When the Dems get back in power, we know that they will return to the Jimmy Carter Iranian foreign policy. The Dems now have the Muslim vote in the USA as well as the leftist vote. Guess who will defeat the left in the long run? People in Indianapolis know because we have the HQ for the Muslim Brotherhood here: Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Talk about the gates of hell--that place is so evil I have never even driven within a mile of it.
     
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    Maybe. Or perhaps after you've been contacted by a young woman asking you for stories about the father she never got to know, you have different ideas about who all pays a personal price in war.
     
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    War is not inevitable but when war happens it engulfs everything around it.

    Great question. When George W. Bush committed ground troops to Iraq and Afghanistan it was a result of the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor. There was a just cause for retaliation. However, retaliation was replaced by occupation. I feared that would happen right from the inception. Add to that the inept intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, the personal agendas of the military-industrial complex (which Dwight Eisenhower rightly warned about), fear of future attacks, and politics and you get what we have today. The problem is that once our troops were committed pulling them out without a plan for their absence has been like looking for an honest man in congress.

    The Pentagon is warning of the risks of creating a power vacuum if American forces pull out completely. Who will fill the void that will be created after our troops are gone? Another Johnny-come-lately to the terrorist club? Probably. We do need to pull out of these countries while at the same time protecting our security. I wish I had the answer to solving that problem.
     
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    This one loves the America I remember growing up in.

    He's kept more promises (or tried) than any other President in my lifetime. You got one in mind that has pleased you well?

    He's trying, besides 'the complex' opposing him at every turn, the situation he inherited can't be resolved overnight.
     
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    Here is a reasonable expectation as a result of the attack on Qassem Soleimani: Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander threatens attacks on 'vital' US destroyers, warships

    If Iran attempts to carry out this threat it will be an escalation. Logically, we could expect an American response. How bad could it get? It depends. We have enough assets in the Persian Gulf area that we could effectively destroy the Iranian navy. Like I said previously, an Iranian attack would be all the cover President Trump would need to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. Let us pray this is all bluster and posturing. Hopefully, none of us actually want war with Iran.
     
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    Yea, as in the end of their Navy for one thing. Not to mention targets such as oil industry and nuclear facilities. Iran is actually very vulnerable to our air power.
     
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    What I see, and you obviously cannot see and don't want to see, is prophecy being fulfilled. And I have no doubt, that you will do your part. Ezekiel's war is coming. America is not Israel's Savior. America will not be glorified in her preservation. God shall be Israel's Savior. And God shall receive the glory, exactly as prophecied.

    Whilst Israel has been established and maturing post-WW2. America, during the same time frame, has been involved in numerous military conflicts post-WW2, without the benefit of clearly breaking the emnity in those with whom we have engaged in military conflict.

    The result has been twofold. First, Americans have become war-weary and cannot perceive benefit in being drawn into major conflict, as we were in WW1 and WW2 and beyond. Secondly, post-WW2, anti-conflict entities have been thoroughly developed that know exactly what to say and exactly what to do to both, block an American President from committing the nation to a major war, and exactly how to steer the populous into an anti-conflict position.

    I have no doubt that this nation will succeed in blocking President Trump from participating in the Gog-Magog war. And I have no doubt that the Gog-Magog alliance believe this. Which explains the boldness and confidence that these nations are demonstrating, in recent years, in defying US initiatives.

    The world representative entities, such as, the UN and ICC, are thoroughly anti-Israel, and to a lesser degree anti-America. As consistently demonstrated by America's lone standing veto voting record in the UN Security Council against perpetual anti-Israel proposals.

    Everything is proceeding, exactly as it would need to, for Ezekiel's war to occur exactly as prophecied. And the world cannot see it coming, as referenced in Ezekiel 38:13.

    Revelation 22:20-21. 20) He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21) The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
     
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    The big problem is that we are not allowing the Military to fight any of these wars, as we keep trying to politicize the conflict, and we force our soldiersto adapt stupid rules of engagement like under Obama, where have to keeps guns always locked and without live ammo! We never learned from Vietnam, once any war is engaged, regardless it should have been, once there, allow Military to fight to finish the war!
     
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    The right 'surgical' responses could very well be the tipping point that allows the populace to rid themselves of the tyranny of the Mullahs.
     
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