Oh geesh. Trump has communicated the exact preference for Iranian regime change. See Venezuela. I think the Trump admin could give the Trum-hating media and chattering class a 500-page detailed plan and they would still write "Trump's plan is ill thought out.".
You really cannot fix TDS without years of needed cognitive behavior therapy.
Any dolt with any modicum of knowledge about the history of Iran over the last 47 years including the American embassy personnel took hostage during the gawdawful Carter years would find the attempted connection between the Bush Iraq war and this joint Israel-US operation to remove the Iran terrorist regime, the same that took all those Americans hostage and has been responsible for millions of dead from its state-sponsored global terrorism, well let's just say that that person is not very smart.
No Brucie, unlike you are read and consume information from your commie insane asylum as well as my side of freedom, liberty and liberalism. Because I live in leftie land and don't have an ideological bubble existence like you, I have had to do the hard work to make sure I am not the one with the mythology of the media in my head masquerading as knowledge. I always assume that I might be wrong and seek information to help be uncover blind spots. Nobody could be as successful as me in my private sector corporate career being someone that always has to be right and defends his perceived brilliance against any challenge. I am always curious and always asking questions to help shore up what I know. My board of directors would have skewered me like they did my liberal predecessor that they fired. He still claims that he is the smartest guy in the room. We are all idiots for firing him with all his academic credentials and clear brilliance.
The problem with your ilk is that you are of the alien human species with that liberal personality disorder of emotional dysregulation... fixated on care/harm - and generally of your own ego... ignoring most other moral considerations. You emote and then use your education credentials to seek rhetoric to defend, obfuscate and deflect from any challenge that might make you feel bad about yourself. And since ego is so tied to being the smartest guy in the room, it is frequently challenged as that is never the case. You have so many blind-spots you are figuratively blind.
Like almost every educated and articulate liberal I know, their gaslit ignorance is so clear to me it is almost hilarious. If they could actually see themselves the as they are, they would certainly be so embarrassed they would stop talking until their cognitive behavior therapy started to kick in.
As Tom and Ray Magliozzi might have put it, Trump is "unencumbered by the thought process". Not only he, but his close advisors. What a terrible thing America has visited on the world. What will it take to crawl out of this?
That ten-year old boy however may be Alex Karp, D&D master of Palantir et al. I do not see regime change as the goal. Rather America is perfecting AI warfare, and Iran offers a perfect sparring partner. Powerful and universally accepted as evil religious lunatics. The moral costs are low the experience gained is enormous. This is a show war for Putin and Xi Jinping. And indeed the data gained in live warfare over the last week has been extremely useful for future militarily engagements.
I agree. Our leaders seem to have ignored that we’ve been ‘at war’ with Iran since the early 1980s; they’ve forgotten all the ‘death to the great satan’ chants and flag-burnings; they’ve relyed, along with Western Europe, on paper treaties of understanding. Until now. Two weeks into the war, the US and Israel have demonstrated incredible military intelligence-and-hardware capabilities. The rest of the world, especially the Arab states, see this; raw power is what they understand. Now they will know they can trust the US if they side with us; they can trust the our weapon and intelligence systems to work better than our enemies. The world had become a more dangerous place with the West’s ‘hope for change’ dream. Hopefully, Trump’s message of ‘peace through power’ will better serve the civilized world.
There is one, and only one, objective that warrants US military intervention in Iran: preventing any government or faction in that country from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Totally agree. The Dead Sea Scrolls warned us that Iran was within two months of ICBM capabilities and Sleepy Joe and Barrack HUSSEIN Obama totally ignored this PROPHECY.
I think it is not the case that they (those behind, around Trump, since Trump is not understanding this) didn't think it through. I think it is more likely they understood the limitations and possibilities but took a shot anyway on the hope that it would spur more internal (Iran) uprising. Their view was plenty of upside with limited downside. The downside consequences are not as large as many are suggesting.
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Oh geesh. Trump has communicated the exact preference for Iranian regime change. See Venezuela. I think the Trump admin could give the Trum-hating media and chattering class a 500-page detailed plan and they would still write "Trump's plan is ill thought out.".
You really cannot fix TDS without years of needed cognitive behavior therapy.
Yeah, keep making excuses for being conned by your dear leader. At some point you will realize, just like with W Bush, that you have been lied to.
Any dolt with any modicum of knowledge about the history of Iran over the last 47 years including the American embassy personnel took hostage during the gawdawful Carter years would find the attempted connection between the Bush Iraq war and this joint Israel-US operation to remove the Iran terrorist regime, the same that took all those Americans hostage and has been responsible for millions of dead from its state-sponsored global terrorism, well let's just say that that person is not very smart.
Frank, Your cognitive ability has been shaped by completely swallowing over 30 years of malinformation from Fox, et al.
Amusing that his cognitive decline seems to be paralleling that of Dementia Donnie
No Brucie, unlike you are read and consume information from your commie insane asylum as well as my side of freedom, liberty and liberalism. Because I live in leftie land and don't have an ideological bubble existence like you, I have had to do the hard work to make sure I am not the one with the mythology of the media in my head masquerading as knowledge. I always assume that I might be wrong and seek information to help be uncover blind spots. Nobody could be as successful as me in my private sector corporate career being someone that always has to be right and defends his perceived brilliance against any challenge. I am always curious and always asking questions to help shore up what I know. My board of directors would have skewered me like they did my liberal predecessor that they fired. He still claims that he is the smartest guy in the room. We are all idiots for firing him with all his academic credentials and clear brilliance.
The problem with your ilk is that you are of the alien human species with that liberal personality disorder of emotional dysregulation... fixated on care/harm - and generally of your own ego... ignoring most other moral considerations. You emote and then use your education credentials to seek rhetoric to defend, obfuscate and deflect from any challenge that might make you feel bad about yourself. And since ego is so tied to being the smartest guy in the room, it is frequently challenged as that is never the case. You have so many blind-spots you are figuratively blind.
Like almost every educated and articulate liberal I know, their gaslit ignorance is so clear to me it is almost hilarious. If they could actually see themselves the as they are, they would certainly be so embarrassed they would stop talking until their cognitive behavior therapy started to kick in.
As Tom and Ray Magliozzi might have put it, Trump is "unencumbered by the thought process". Not only he, but his close advisors. What a terrible thing America has visited on the world. What will it take to crawl out of this?
That ten-year old boy however may be Alex Karp, D&D master of Palantir et al. I do not see regime change as the goal. Rather America is perfecting AI warfare, and Iran offers a perfect sparring partner. Powerful and universally accepted as evil religious lunatics. The moral costs are low the experience gained is enormous. This is a show war for Putin and Xi Jinping. And indeed the data gained in live warfare over the last week has been extremely useful for future militarily engagements.
I agree. Our leaders seem to have ignored that we’ve been ‘at war’ with Iran since the early 1980s; they’ve forgotten all the ‘death to the great satan’ chants and flag-burnings; they’ve relyed, along with Western Europe, on paper treaties of understanding. Until now. Two weeks into the war, the US and Israel have demonstrated incredible military intelligence-and-hardware capabilities. The rest of the world, especially the Arab states, see this; raw power is what they understand. Now they will know they can trust the US if they side with us; they can trust the our weapon and intelligence systems to work better than our enemies. The world had become a more dangerous place with the West’s ‘hope for change’ dream. Hopefully, Trump’s message of ‘peace through power’ will better serve the civilized world.
There is one, and only one, objective that warrants US military intervention in Iran: preventing any government or faction in that country from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Totally agree. The Dead Sea Scrolls warned us that Iran was within two months of ICBM capabilities and Sleepy Joe and Barrack HUSSEIN Obama totally ignored this PROPHECY.
Too true! Thank you for speaking the truth, plainly and clearly.
I think it is not the case that they (those behind, around Trump, since Trump is not understanding this) didn't think it through. I think it is more likely they understood the limitations and possibilities but took a shot anyway on the hope that it would spur more internal (Iran) uprising. Their view was plenty of upside with limited downside. The downside consequences are not as large as many are suggesting.
Also, this is within the framework of a win including damaging my enemy more than I am damaged.
Wonderful piece!
I particularly like the image of DJT as out-of-control 12-year-old. Unfortunately, all the adults have left the premises.
Hello Francis, I'd love to have you consider being on my non profit's Board. Everyone has a responsibility to do something to better our future. May I guide you to “a third way” path? Please, join me at EthicalGovtNow.org. Only $12 annually (3.3 cents a day). Our Republic is in a much more complicated place than most of us think. We need a longer view of solutions to our inherited societal and political complexities and need to look for them with priorities. CLICK to delve into: EthicalGovtNow.org; aggregate by joining today or, what we are experiencing, our grandchildren are very likely to inherit.