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Please.
There is no justifying what he said based on his background as a New York real estate guy, nor his habit of speaking the way he speaks.
He now speaks as the president of the United States, and what he said was grossly foolish, ignorant and uncalled for.
He clearly doesn't understand this, and there is no excuse, and no defending it.
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18 minutes ago, Foxx said:
thank you.
i also do not know with any certainty whether Hezbollah uses cultural centers to store command centers, train and house terrorists and/or to store munitions.
I'm not going to quote the entire post, but what you are doing is expanding the thing beyond the Iranian borders.
Everybody knows the use of human shields, cultural centers, hospitals and other sensitive areas that various groups use, knowing that such areas are almost always off limits to offensive response.
My comments are strictly directed to Iranian soil, and they typically haven't done that.
If the discussion expands to the entire world, this "trend" is certainly up for discussion, but I'm not going to comment on that.
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1 hour ago, 4merper4mer said:
I read somewhere, linked in this thread....not sure exactly where, that much of their cyber terrorism OP's are run from cultural/historical locations. If true, your thoughts on taking them out?
My initial thought would that they could be "taken out" through means other than ordnance and without harming the structures. I'm not sure if that is viable but have to believe it would be.
I hope that we could address a cyber threat without altering real estate.
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51 minutes ago, Foxx said:
"are you saying that Hezbollah and their ilk are not using cultural centers to house/train terrorists? nor are they using them for command control centers or to store ammunition?"
I have no idea, but I am not aware of them using Iranian locations for those activities. They export that kind of stuff to other places, or at least they have.
You can't simply relocate command and control centers, and I doubt they would use such places as storage for any munitions that the world would care about.
Their nuc stuff is deeply underground.
Anyway, I've never been aware of any military value that would justify any strike on a cultural site there, but who knows.
Either way, it was stupid thing for the president to say. Nothing gained, but a ton of speculation that puts us on the defense.
The man is a massive unforced error source, and he hasn't figure it out.
Such statements make military people cringe.
Related, I think the US deployed six B-52's to Diego Garcia yesterday, which argues for a more strategic response, but that would just be a start.
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42 minutes ago, Foxx said:
that is all well and good. however, you answered without answering the question.
I did answer the question, though it isn't what Trump said.
I said "if there is no military benefit to doing so."
It's silly to get into hypotheticals, so I won't.
Gaming this think before anything happens is a really bad idea, but.........
Iranian "ammunition" is not a threat.
The US' strategic interest in anything Iranian related would be twofold.
One is to protect shipping, which would involve eliminating the threat to the Strait of Hormuz, Persian gulf and Northern Arabian Sea.
The other is to disrupt and delay their nuclear weapons program, which is almost entirely deeply underground and probably, (I'm guessing here), location known.
Tactically, in order to do that, you have to do what the US always does at the onset, which is to take out command and control and air defense capability related to those two objectives.
None of that relates to cultural sites, and using such places to train terrorists or store ammunition, per your hypothetical, probably isn't important enough to worry about.
Nonetheless, going after a cultural site is anathema to a professional military, which the US is.
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6 minutes ago, Foxx said:
are you saying that Hezbollah and their ilk are not using cultural centers to house/train terrorists? nor are they using them for command control centers or to store ammunition?
to use one of your lines... think before you answer.
I've thought before I'll answer.
It is a grossly stupid idea that will never be carried out.
The first rule of being Commander in Chief, or any military leader for that matter, is that you don't put people in harm's way if there is not a military benefit for doing so.
If such a thing was directed, it would be strenuously advised against, and I have no doubt that not only would it not be carried out, but would result in the resignations of the Sect. of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
It is a horrible, useless notion, and not what the US military does.
Hopefully, just a giant red herring from a guy who doesn't think much before he talks.
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Sad, but the entire thing is a result of failing to address reality.
The greatest example of kicking the can down the road.
Does any sane individual with a modicum of knowledge about the Persian thing think for a second that Iran was going to abandon its nuclear program because of a "deal" with American President Barack Obama?
Ludicrous.
This preposterous view by grossly political Americans, (my party gets it right, yours gets it wrong), flies in the face of reality.
There is no chance that Obama was going to stop them just as there is no chance that any diplomacy is going to stop them.
Its simply an option to get a bunch of career pols around a table for a photo shoot and add something to a faked resume.
Iran has never stopped, and is not going to stop developing this stuff until some other event occurs, and that has been the reality since they decided to pursue this weapons program.
Obama, Trump, Lincoln or whomever, it doesn't matter.
The theory that some president of the US has the negotiating skill to control such a decision in Tehran or Pyonyang is not supported by any current reality.
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20 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Team Trump seems to want that war. Day one they were pushing us in this direction.
So passing on a response when Iran shot down a US aircraft in international airspace supports the thought that he "wanted that war."
There is no more clear acts or war than that.
On other notes you have mentioned, nobody has any issues with the horrible nature of the Shah, but that has nothing to do with this.
On a further note, I do not know of one serious, familiar with their operations, informed individual who ever thought that Iran was going to cease its nuclear weapons program because of the "deal" it had in place.
The same for North Korea.
They are simply not going to stop of their own volition.
Unfortunately, that is the reality.
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Very odd for a team to begin its season and end its season in games where a 16-0 lead was blown.
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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:
It didn’t start in ‘79, it started way before that. You don’t want war, you just want a starting date?
If your argument is simply it started in ‘79, then you are as ignorant as your argument.
I cant follow your argument because there isn’t one.
So in your thread starting post you posted:
"From day one Trump was intent on doing economic warfare on Iran and now we have seen that escalate to a shooting war. "
And an hour ago, you state:
"It didn’t start in ‘79, it started way before that."
Do you not see the incongruity of your own statements?
I'm not the kind of guy that gets into keyboard arguments or piles on, but you are one strange source.
The fact is that the "shooting" between Iran, the US and a host of other countries has been going on for decades.
From seizing an embassy, blindfolding and parading people around Tehran, the crap they source in the middle east through proxies, mining the Strait of Hormuz, (viewed in international law as an act of war and thus "shooting"), launching missiles, running gun boats at ships in international waters, mining a vessel, including the USS Roberts, shooting a drone in international airspace and a host of other things on their side.....
and on ours:
Operation Praying Mantis which basically sunk half their fleet, including dropping an LGB down the stack of the Iranian ship Sabalan, (mistakenly attributed to an A-6, but actually done by an F-18 from my old squadron, go Shrikes, and on and on and on.
Ya. the shooting just started.
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9 minutes ago, DC Tom said:
We have been at war with Iran since 1979. Sherpa's fired shots in it, as I recall.
Nope.
Never fired.
I got the first intercept of an Iranian hostile after the embassy.
Launched of Kitty Hawk and got a com to connect with the E2, early warning aircraft.
They linked me to an intercept of an Iranian P3 who was closing on the ship, at 200 miles.
Tapped him at 150 miles, and showed him my missiles, two heaters,with the appropriate hand signals, telling him that if he threatened the task force I would kill him.
Task Force commander, aboard Kitty Hawk at the time, said that if he gets within 50 miles, I was going to get a cleared to fire, or if they open any doors on the bottom.
The speculation was that they had Harpoon, and anti ship missile we had sold them, and that was a reasonable range to eliminate the threat.
He closed to 45 miles, my missiles were locked, and I asked for a cleared to fire, and they said no.
P3 got to 30 miles, and I said that since it was so close, I would first take out the missile as it dropped, and then the airplane.
The guy turned away at 25 miles.
I often wonder what would have happened if I simply shot him and claimed an aggressive action within the rules of engagement.
North Indian Ocean. Nobody would have known
Glad I didn't, 'cause I'm a good guy.
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4 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Oh brother, so now we should have been at war since 1979, whatever buddy.
You are a silly person
Are you allowed to function in your community?
I have spent four posts curing and cleaning up the nonsense you do here.
I never said we should have been at war with them.
What I said was that that this started in '79, and it is ignorant to not know that.
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41 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
So you think we should have attacked and killed their leaders sooner? Years ago? They have been waging war on us--our occupation forces in Iraq and against our good friends the Saudis, so what is it you want done? All out war with Iran? You used the word inevitable, so where does it end?
They have been waging war on us and others since 1979.
If you don't know this, you are ignorant.
It has been a "shooting war" for decades.
To not know this is to be completely ignorant of history.
By the way, stop speculating on "what I want."
You have no idea, and your theories are preposterous.
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22 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
I don't think you even know what point you were trying to make. Ok, people have been fighting forever. So?
I'm kinda sure what point I'm trying to make, and the point is that Iran has been killing Americans for years, and for you to suggest that Trump, who I cannot stand, just made this a shooting war, is preposterous.
The Iranians have been waging war for years, on a host of different fronts, including international waters.
I've been watching this for years, knowing all the time that some eventual conflict between the Islamic Republic and the US was inevitable, unless a regime or direction change occurred in Tehran.
You stating that "people have been fighting forever, so.." is preposterous.
Iran has been killing Americans for years, and that is a small portion of what they do.
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8 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Oh no, this isn't an escalation or anything of the like? When have we assassinated a high ranking Iranian lately?
I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but you are posting things that have absolutely nothing to do with what I have said.
Iran has been responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of deaths of US servicemen for decades.
That is my point.
This "shooting" has been going on for decades.
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10 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
No, what is absolutely ignorant is trying to dismiss this as a nothingburger. Ya, killing has taken place before, so a US Military action is not newsworthy? You are a clown
Are you involved in some personal fantasy?
I never said it was "nothing," and I never said it wasn't "newsworthy."
Do you just conjure this trash up?
I said the killing has been going on for years.
This isn't the start.
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4 hours ago, Tiberius said:
From day one Trump was intent on doing economic warfare on Iran and now we have seen that escalate to a shooting war.
Just a reminder, we had inspectors in that country, had an agreement that they would not enrich uranium that the international community was behind.
Trump ended that, and now the killing has begun.
The killing in this began decades ago, just as the "shooting war" did.
Across many countries and waters, this shooting and killing has been going on for years.
Absolutely ignorant to not acknowledge this.
I know for certain the US military has.
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Also Saturday morning, at 2:48 eastern, the earth will be at perihelian, its closest distance from the sun in the year 2020.
So....Lots going on Sat morning.
Something going on Sat afternoon as well.
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That's pretty good.
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First game I attended.
Sep 22 vs. the Kansas City Chiefs. Ended up a 27-27 tie.
Sat behind KC wide receiver Chris Burford's parents.
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Women are weird.
I couldn't get my wife to start our 45 hp Kubota tractor.
Then we got 22" of snow while I was in Buenos Aires, (summer down there), and she did the 850 driveway with a six foot blade and I couldn't get her off the thing when I got home.
So....Quick thinking me..... I got her a zero turn four foot mower for her birthday, and she does the entire lawn, leaving me to do the other acreage on the tractor.
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He was "Dooby" before it meant something else.
I had my sister craft some wide tape into a "44" and put it on a blank jersey I had as a kid.
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I remember a a very brief lyric from a song from the early - mid 50's that's been stuck in my head for decades.
I know the tune as well, but the lyric was:
"On brave old Bu-fa-lo Bills,
On to vic-to-ry."
Not sure where I heard it, but it could have been from the lead in to WBEN radio casts in the early 60's.
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We are about five plays into this game and there is already a huge delay on a pass interference call.
I am absolutely certain that at the end of this year, someone will start a thread about the 2019 season, but to be the first, the 2019 season is going to be about how horrible this officiating has been.
The NFL needs to solve this, but the vector is not good.
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Reagan won.
This guy aint.