Joe Ferguson forever

I need to give credit where credit is due. Today’s reported tongue lashing of Iran’s and Israel’s leaders gave them cover to say they had no choice. They save face. How long it will last is the question. It’s a good start.

The RINK alliance: Russia, Iran and N Korea. Except for nukes, they are all much weaker than us. Nukes are the equalizer, if there's anything left after. I guess 2 nuclear powers are better than 3 but there is still great danger. I hope Sting was right about the Russians. Not at all sure about NK....

get back to your patients...your more necessary to them to us.

at least you chose an analogy with something that's bad for you. I think liking puffer fish would be more apt.

i think Fox has an open spot for a military "personality".

yes, we know. not interested in any rebuttals. stop pretending you're the last word on any military operation.

and we're to understand that because of that, trump wasn't conspiring with Israel to finish their job. confidence doesn't equal knowledge of this situation. No doubt their are military men with as much or more experience that disagree. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-858612#google_vignette “Four days ago, there was a phone call between Netanyahu and the US president, during which Trump said, ‘I’ve decided to launch a strike,’” an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post. Since Israel began attacking nuclear sites and other targets inside Iran about a week and a half ago, Netanyahu and Trump have spoken almost daily. According to both Israeli and US sources, the US president, along with senior US officials, was impressed by Israel’s success. In the days leading up to the operation, both Israel and the US employed deception tactics to create the impression of a profound disagreement between the two nations on whether the US would participate in the strike. There was plenty of time to involve Congress.

I didn't state it as fact. The "if" kinda gives it away. Was it a "five day delay" or was it a planned delay to let Israel neuter Iran's air defenses first? You don't know. I don't know. But you seem to believe your view as fact. I anticipated your argument to be "it doesn't matter. Needed to be done". And I would argue against that because of war powers....

We don't know this. "I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they’ve done." The timing is vague at best. If we were working with them from the onset of the attack, that changes things imo. That would mean we were planning war all along which congress should have least been apprised of, if not voted on. The timing matters.

Putins propaganda machine is hardly a trusted source. But I certainly hope they are wrong. If not, we will likely see more 30000 pound bombs dropped. At this point, we're in for penny, in for a pound.

What he said 10 years ago is meaningless. Hell, he was a dem not much longer ago than that. his most recent promise on this was no new wars. At this point, I don't know if this was the correct move or not. It was (or should have been) a gut wrenching decision. We need to see the results and the retaliation before we brag about is power and lethality. Iran's regime is evil. A prolonged war is worse. We'll probably never know how close Iran actually was too a deliverable nuke.

the initial ruling found it unconstitutional. The appeals court did not. Long way to go before you can make the above statement. But the judiciary has been purposefully politicized by trump. It's what dictators do. "Earlier Thursday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled the Guard deployment was illegal and both violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded Trump’s statutory authority. The order applied only to the National Guard troops and not Marines who were also deployed to the LA protests. The judge said he would not rule on the Marines because they were not out on the streets yet." from PBS. unfortunatley, there are several deranged rhino clones here....or at least like minded morons.

ummm, because it's against the governor's wishes. he's using the military to police US citizens. I know you're OK with that. Most Americans are not.

Yup. The federal deep state is deeper than ever. Supposedly, we had bureaucrats secretly running things. Now we have a dictator who has removed all guardrails and is doing it openly.

All true. But I don't envy him this decision. I think waiting is the right decision here. Can the Israelis win without us? The iron dome is in jeopardy of running out of missiles. So are the Iranians. A stalemate and negotiated peace may be the best option. Meanwhile in Ukraine...what a mess.