The Biden administration’s “received wisdom” is that the United States does not want to see the war in the Mideast “widened.” That is not wisdom. It is a short-term Band-Aid on a festering infection. Iran sees it as an invitation to continue attacking us and our allies through its wholly owned proxies: Hezbollah,
The Generals and other military people under Trump admin are echoing your words. We supplied money to Iran since Biden took over. Trump had them on their back. Since Bribery Biden and weak security counsel took over illegitimately they have put billions into Iran’s coffers easily allowing them to send arms and money to the the H’s - Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis. In Biden’s intimate wisdom the first day on the job he took Houthis off terror list allowing our tax dollars to flow into their wallets. We’re waltzing into WWIII under the feckless reckless leadership of the O’Biden regime.
All true, but the current state of affairs with Iran is due to the total failure of Biden's foreign policies, just like Obama before him. Biden projects weakness, indecisiveness and incredible naïveté. Trump had Iran boxed in and in check with strong and effective sanctions, crippled Iran without waging war. As the great Sun Tzu once wrote: "To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.". History has proven time and time again that appeasement does not work.
Nearly every line of this could have been written about Cuba in 1963, Afghanistan in 2000, Iraq in 2001, N. Korea in 2010, Syria in 2015, Russia in 2022...
"A legitimate strike against Iran could serve multiple purposes, depending on the operation’s nature and extent."
Ah yes, the "give him a bloody nose and he'll stop" school of foreign policy which is so popular with the globalist establishment whose children don't serve in the military, but which actually results in "give him a bloody nose and he's more pissed than ever."
"A full-blown attack could bring about regime change, which would be welcome to most Iranians and their neighbors."
This would require massive air strikes followed by a ground invasion (ala Iraq -- which worked out so well for us). Hundreds of thousands of dead Iranians. Probably tens of thousands of dead Americans. Go study the Iran Iraq war if you want a preview of what The Great Satan invading a Shiite Muslim country would be like. If you think the Houthis are bad, Iran has a navy that could effectively close the Red Sea. They could mine the Persian Gulf. And do you really think Russia would allow America to attack an ally as close as Iran?
Good God, this is a terrible idea.
There are thousands of miles of ocean between us and all of these problems. We need to start using them again. Nothing but an ICBM can touch the American mainland. We have no reason to (as George Washington cautioned against) "go abroad in search of monsters to destroy".
Biden has now painted himself into a real corner. He has now managed to get the worst of all worlds. The pictures of all the hate America and hate Israel demonstrators this past Saturday are riveting. They are shaking the gates to the White House and throwing garbage on the lawn. They only way Biden can win is for to let Israel finish off Hamas, and accept the fact that there can only be a one state solution. No more of this "humanitarian" idiocy to rearm Hamas, and expel all of the Gazans, who love Hamas anyways, to some remote island in the middle of nowhere. The only thing these jihadists understand is force.
As of December 2020, 165 of the 193 total member states of the United Nations (UN) recognize Israel. 28 UN member states do not recognize Israel: 15 members of the Arab League (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen); ten non-Arab members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Niger, and Pakistan); and Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.
Yes, we have been invaded. Who are the 30 Moslem countries? Iran was not at war in Israel until the Ayatollah and his gangsters took over in 1979. There were also terrorist groups like the PLO and Hamas.
As of December 2020, 165 of the 193 total member states of the United Nations (UN) recognize Israel. 28 UN member states do not recognize Israel: 15 members of the Arab League (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen); ten non-Arab members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Niger, and Pakistan); and Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.
What happened to the America I knew that had the policy "no negotiating with terrorist regimes"? The American experiment cannot fail, there has never been a better system of government.
Less than a decade ago Dershowitz was ending a fifteen year long intensive effrort of enabling and protecting Jeffrey Epstein and his project from law enforcement and whistleblowers, filing lawsuit after defamation suit against any underage child sexual penetration victim who grew up enough to try to fight her posttraumatic stress, often connected to penetration by rubber toys, and go to the police, Then, flush with Epstein money he filed defamstion suits against each attorney representing a whistleblower. and accompanied these lawsuits with well-paid mega intrusive investigstors simply to intimidate, to prevent any chance at posttraumatic stress treatment and to scare off any other whistleblowers among the underage sexually violated children,. Dershowitz has not served a day in prison. He has not even been indicted. With Epstein money (USD 600 million) he got an immunity deal from a federal prosecutor who had been given the FBI/Palm Beach Police criminal investigastion file on Dershowitz..
What weakens America more than organized and substantially unpunished 15 year long pedophilia in four different locations of the USA? Well, fighting a war on Israel's behalf against Iran, Dershowitz is an ideological descendent of the Fifth Column that gave American military secrets including the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -The recïpient has been changed, now it is Israel. The revived Fifth Column included Jonathan Pollard who worked in the Pentagon and stole every state and military secret he could find, turning them all over to Israel. As a Fifth Columnist Dershowitz advocates for war with Iran. It is not at all in the National Interest., America is already way overextended with 1) Ukraine probably collapsing this summer unless NATO sends its manpower, 2) Israel's genocidal aim for a Greater Israel, all supported with American money and munitions. 3) new and likely unlimited fighting with Houthis. Our dementia afflicted president says "America is the greatest power that ever existed in the world". Maybe, at a time when he was not senile.. Now America is highly likely to lose a war against Iran. Dershowitz even at 85 can remember Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam, even if he was so occupied with Jeffrey Epstein's sexually offending activities. But Dershowitz is simply disloyal to America. What a combination. He tries to ruin America morally thru enabling and protecting pedophilia involving hundreds of underage girls and now he wants to set up the ultimate military defeat of the USA when China decides when best to capture Taiwan and cause the whole American House of Cards over which Biden presides to collapse. Maybe we can learn from total defeat when the Russians sense the opportunity to enter Poland and the Baltic States while America's resources are exhausted by a) trying to capture Tehran 2) while fighting in Sana, 3) providing bombs for Israeli genocide and money to keep its sizeable population of work-exempt Hasidic on social welfare (which USA pays) 4) defending South Korea and Japan when North Korea senses the right moment to attack and 5) making an effort to protect the Phillipines from Chinese takeover. Dershowitz is not one of us. He has no moral values. He should not have a youtube or substack platform. Pay no attention to this Fifth Columnist.
And do not be impressed by Dershowitz. He is actually dumb. Remember that secret immunity deal he got for his Epstein activities from US DA Alex Acosta? Dershowitz did not even know that the secrecy violated the Federal Victims Rights Act. His ignorance of basic law meant that the immunity deal was judically invalidated three years later. Dershowitz can still be jailed for pedophila if investigated and indicted. Jail is fitting since other prisoners do nasty things to people connected to pedophilia. THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATION FOR UNDERAGE CHILD RAPE.
You wrote: "A more limited but direct attack, coupled with the promise of repetition, would send a deterrent message against renewed terrorism by its proxies."
No, it wouldn't. It would increase hostility at home and abroad; it would help the Mullah consolidate support from Iranians, further radicalizing them in Iran, along with sleeper cells in the west. It would make us less safe, by increasing terrorism on our own soil. It would also embolden China. Not only will China fund Iran, prolonging any war we engage in, but it would also give China a great opportunity to invade Taiwan, while our forces are once again tied down in the middle east.
It's a terrible idea.
This is the same stategy that America has been using for 60 years. It doesn't work. It didn't work in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and it's not going to work in Iran.
Yes, let's start another twenty year war and bankrupt ourselves.
It's very intelligent.
This war is not going to happen; you can continue to call Biden and beg for a war, but Americans on both sides of the aisle are fed up with it. Only the neo-con, neo-lib babyboomers continue their worldwide destablization program, also known as regime change, and thankfully, their numbers are beginning to decline.
We all understand that Israel wants the U.S. to get involved.
But that's not happening. The military cannot even get recruits; westpoint recently published an academic paper proposing that the draft be reinstated because they cannot meet their recruitment numbers.
This is what happens when you engage in war for 20+ years, and ignore the public interest. People are tired of the endless crusades.
I support Israel, but Israel has to defend itself. Maybe you can convince some of the African nations to join you on the new religious crusade. Maybe you can even convince the UK or Germany, or recruit volunteers from America, but we are not sending our military. Not anymore.
The approximately 130 Israelis still currently being held hostage by Hamas will never be freed, a Hamas leader said after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the terror group’s conditions to end the war Sunday.
“In exchange for the release of our hostages, Hamas demands the end of the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of all the murderers and rapists,” Netanyahu stated in a video address.
“And leaving Hamas intact. I reject outright the terms of surrender of the monsters of Hamas,” he added.
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Senior Hamas official, Khaled Mash'al, saying it loud and clear: We are NOT interested in a two state solution, since there should be only ONE state - a Palestinian state, from the river to the sea, and from the north of Israel to its south. In other words: the total annihilation of the state of Israel.
Still think Hamas and the Palestinians are partners for peace?
Biden is giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. It’s not just dereliction of duty or stupidity; he is deliberately helping Iran develop nuclear weapons, attack American soldiers, and fund Muslim terrorists. It’s treason.
The Generals and other military people under Trump admin are echoing your words. We supplied money to Iran since Biden took over. Trump had them on their back. Since Bribery Biden and weak security counsel took over illegitimately they have put billions into Iran’s coffers easily allowing them to send arms and money to the the H’s - Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis. In Biden’s intimate wisdom the first day on the job he took Houthis off terror list allowing our tax dollars to flow into their wallets. We’re waltzing into WWIII under the feckless reckless leadership of the O’Biden regime.
We are in ww3;
All true, but the current state of affairs with Iran is due to the total failure of Biden's foreign policies, just like Obama before him. Biden projects weakness, indecisiveness and incredible naïveté. Trump had Iran boxed in and in check with strong and effective sanctions, crippled Iran without waging war. As the great Sun Tzu once wrote: "To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.". History has proven time and time again that appeasement does not work.
Nearly every line of this could have been written about Cuba in 1963, Afghanistan in 2000, Iraq in 2001, N. Korea in 2010, Syria in 2015, Russia in 2022...
"A legitimate strike against Iran could serve multiple purposes, depending on the operation’s nature and extent."
Ah yes, the "give him a bloody nose and he'll stop" school of foreign policy which is so popular with the globalist establishment whose children don't serve in the military, but which actually results in "give him a bloody nose and he's more pissed than ever."
"A full-blown attack could bring about regime change, which would be welcome to most Iranians and their neighbors."
This would require massive air strikes followed by a ground invasion (ala Iraq -- which worked out so well for us). Hundreds of thousands of dead Iranians. Probably tens of thousands of dead Americans. Go study the Iran Iraq war if you want a preview of what The Great Satan invading a Shiite Muslim country would be like. If you think the Houthis are bad, Iran has a navy that could effectively close the Red Sea. They could mine the Persian Gulf. And do you really think Russia would allow America to attack an ally as close as Iran?
Good God, this is a terrible idea.
There are thousands of miles of ocean between us and all of these problems. We need to start using them again. Nothing but an ICBM can touch the American mainland. We have no reason to (as George Washington cautioned against) "go abroad in search of monsters to destroy".
The monster has already invaded America
Biden has now painted himself into a real corner. He has now managed to get the worst of all worlds. The pictures of all the hate America and hate Israel demonstrators this past Saturday are riveting. They are shaking the gates to the White House and throwing garbage on the lawn. They only way Biden can win is for to let Israel finish off Hamas, and accept the fact that there can only be a one state solution. No more of this "humanitarian" idiocy to rearm Hamas, and expel all of the Gazans, who love Hamas anyways, to some remote island in the middle of nowhere. The only thing these jihadists understand is force.
There are 30 Muslim countries at war against Israel since 1948
But America has now been invaded
Sorry 28
Wikipedia international recognition of Israel
As of December 2020, 165 of the 193 total member states of the United Nations (UN) recognize Israel. 28 UN member states do not recognize Israel: 15 members of the Arab League (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen); ten non-Arab members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Niger, and Pakistan); and Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.
Yes, we have been invaded. Who are the 30 Moslem countries? Iran was not at war in Israel until the Ayatollah and his gangsters took over in 1979. There were also terrorist groups like the PLO and Hamas.
Wikipedia international recognition of Israel
As of December 2020, 165 of the 193 total member states of the United Nations (UN) recognize Israel. 28 UN member states do not recognize Israel: 15 members of the Arab League (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen); ten non-Arab members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Niger, and Pakistan); and Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.
What happened to the America I knew that had the policy "no negotiating with terrorist regimes"? The American experiment cannot fail, there has never been a better system of government.
Less than a decade ago Dershowitz was ending a fifteen year long intensive effrort of enabling and protecting Jeffrey Epstein and his project from law enforcement and whistleblowers, filing lawsuit after defamation suit against any underage child sexual penetration victim who grew up enough to try to fight her posttraumatic stress, often connected to penetration by rubber toys, and go to the police, Then, flush with Epstein money he filed defamstion suits against each attorney representing a whistleblower. and accompanied these lawsuits with well-paid mega intrusive investigstors simply to intimidate, to prevent any chance at posttraumatic stress treatment and to scare off any other whistleblowers among the underage sexually violated children,. Dershowitz has not served a day in prison. He has not even been indicted. With Epstein money (USD 600 million) he got an immunity deal from a federal prosecutor who had been given the FBI/Palm Beach Police criminal investigastion file on Dershowitz..
What weakens America more than organized and substantially unpunished 15 year long pedophilia in four different locations of the USA? Well, fighting a war on Israel's behalf against Iran, Dershowitz is an ideological descendent of the Fifth Column that gave American military secrets including the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -The recïpient has been changed, now it is Israel. The revived Fifth Column included Jonathan Pollard who worked in the Pentagon and stole every state and military secret he could find, turning them all over to Israel. As a Fifth Columnist Dershowitz advocates for war with Iran. It is not at all in the National Interest., America is already way overextended with 1) Ukraine probably collapsing this summer unless NATO sends its manpower, 2) Israel's genocidal aim for a Greater Israel, all supported with American money and munitions. 3) new and likely unlimited fighting with Houthis. Our dementia afflicted president says "America is the greatest power that ever existed in the world". Maybe, at a time when he was not senile.. Now America is highly likely to lose a war against Iran. Dershowitz even at 85 can remember Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam, even if he was so occupied with Jeffrey Epstein's sexually offending activities. But Dershowitz is simply disloyal to America. What a combination. He tries to ruin America morally thru enabling and protecting pedophilia involving hundreds of underage girls and now he wants to set up the ultimate military defeat of the USA when China decides when best to capture Taiwan and cause the whole American House of Cards over which Biden presides to collapse. Maybe we can learn from total defeat when the Russians sense the opportunity to enter Poland and the Baltic States while America's resources are exhausted by a) trying to capture Tehran 2) while fighting in Sana, 3) providing bombs for Israeli genocide and money to keep its sizeable population of work-exempt Hasidic on social welfare (which USA pays) 4) defending South Korea and Japan when North Korea senses the right moment to attack and 5) making an effort to protect the Phillipines from Chinese takeover. Dershowitz is not one of us. He has no moral values. He should not have a youtube or substack platform. Pay no attention to this Fifth Columnist.
And do not be impressed by Dershowitz. He is actually dumb. Remember that secret immunity deal he got for his Epstein activities from US DA Alex Acosta? Dershowitz did not even know that the secrecy violated the Federal Victims Rights Act. His ignorance of basic law meant that the immunity deal was judically invalidated three years later. Dershowitz can still be jailed for pedophila if investigated and indicted. Jail is fitting since other prisoners do nasty things to people connected to pedophilia. THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATION FOR UNDERAGE CHILD RAPE.
You wrote: "A more limited but direct attack, coupled with the promise of repetition, would send a deterrent message against renewed terrorism by its proxies."
No, it wouldn't. It would increase hostility at home and abroad; it would help the Mullah consolidate support from Iranians, further radicalizing them in Iran, along with sleeper cells in the west. It would make us less safe, by increasing terrorism on our own soil. It would also embolden China. Not only will China fund Iran, prolonging any war we engage in, but it would also give China a great opportunity to invade Taiwan, while our forces are once again tied down in the middle east.
It's a terrible idea.
This is the same stategy that America has been using for 60 years. It doesn't work. It didn't work in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and it's not going to work in Iran.
Yes, let's start another twenty year war and bankrupt ourselves.
It's very intelligent.
This war is not going to happen; you can continue to call Biden and beg for a war, but Americans on both sides of the aisle are fed up with it. Only the neo-con, neo-lib babyboomers continue their worldwide destablization program, also known as regime change, and thankfully, their numbers are beginning to decline.
We all understand that Israel wants the U.S. to get involved.
But that's not happening. The military cannot even get recruits; westpoint recently published an academic paper proposing that the draft be reinstated because they cannot meet their recruitment numbers.
This is what happens when you engage in war for 20+ years, and ignore the public interest. People are tired of the endless crusades.
I support Israel, but Israel has to defend itself. Maybe you can convince some of the African nations to join you on the new religious crusade. Maybe you can even convince the UK or Germany, or recruit volunteers from America, but we are not sending our military. Not anymore.
America has already been invaded
The approximately 130 Israelis still currently being held hostage by Hamas will never be freed, a Hamas leader said after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the terror group’s conditions to end the war Sunday.
“In exchange for the release of our hostages, Hamas demands the end of the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of all the murderers and rapists,” Netanyahu stated in a video address.
“And leaving Hamas intact. I reject outright the terms of surrender of the monsters of Hamas,” he added.
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*To get all the major updates and Breaking News now in Israel click the link*
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In addition to Iran, I just read this:
Listen to the truth!
Senior Hamas official, Khaled Mash'al, saying it loud and clear: We are NOT interested in a two state solution, since there should be only ONE state - a Palestinian state, from the river to the sea, and from the north of Israel to its south. In other words: the total annihilation of the state of Israel.
Still think Hamas and the Palestinians are partners for peace?
Edy Cohen
Yuval king
Biden is giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. It’s not just dereliction of duty or stupidity; he is deliberately helping Iran develop nuclear weapons, attack American soldiers, and fund Muslim terrorists. It’s treason.
80000 blacks have been killed in Nigeria and 45000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria by Muslim
Actually Muslims kill more blacks than Jews and more Christians then Jews
But no one cares
Try doing search's on persecution of Christians by Muslims
Obama did nothing Biden did nothing about the killing of blacks and Christians
Hell even BLM support Muslims
Spot on!
Whack a mole
Touché!
Will you send in your grand kids to fight?
No so arm up bitch