Well, neverminding the fact that it hasnât been proven that Iran is even responsible for the attacks, what do you think happens to the economy if we go to war with Iran, and what of the fact that you have to contend with Russia and China if you attack their ally, much as we experienced when we attacked Syria.
Independent critics were quick to call for extreme skepticism in the face of U.S. government claims, given the quality of the âevidenceâ and the warmongering track records of those presenting it.
Apparently, Israel planted mines, which recently exploded, on four foreign oil tankers.
Fixed it for you!
Thatâs far more plausible than the Iranians doing it, but unless you have evidence of that, how can you be so dogmatic about it?
Two words for you smart guy, âBarbary Piratesâ.
All deference to your fatherâs service but heâs wrong.
At Best Vietnam would have gone the way of the Korean conflict due to the Russians and Chinese pouring in an endless supply of supplies and reinforcements through Laos and Cambodia.
The only way to really win it would have been to bomb Hanoi into dust along with every supply depot and route into the country and push our own troops all the way to the external borders of all three countries to cut off those lines of supply and communication.
Absent that heâs absolutely right and we might have even been able to get the North to sue for peace by taking the gloves off in the North but the soviets and Chinese would have fought like hell to keep them in the war. Vietnam simply meant far more to them than it did to us.
Very haughty and arrogant. Reminiscent of the typical Roman in the 3rd or 4th century. I guess nobodyâs ever going to listen to the Pentagons annual report to Congress on the growing threat that China is to the United States. And Iran is an ally of China. I guess the FOX news watchers missed their Rand Corporations report on how that the US gets its ass handed to it in a conflict in their (Russia and Chinaâs) back yards.
Things to think about the next time youâre boastingâŚ
No, itâs perfectly accurate. The Pentagon warns us of the Rising Threat China poses in the future, we are not outgunned by China in any respect.
Outnumbered? Badly. Outgunned, not by any measure.
The Pentagon planners are telling us what we need to do to maintain our advantage in the future, they are not claiming we are currently at a disadvantage.
Youâre outnumbered, but theyâll go off topic all day long.
Yes, the Japanese government with the use of their military did those horrific things. And so you think that the US doing the same thing to Japanese civilians is fair turnaround. 
So because the Japanese killed civilians the US is justified in killing their civilians. The funny thing about you people is your religious professions juxtaposed to that kind of thinkingâŚ
Of course it was. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were completely legitimate military targets.
The millions of innocent civilians murdered wholesale by the Japanese were not.
Conventional bombing of Japans Cities produced more than 5x the number of casualties that our Nukes did. All the nukes did was finally convince the Emperor and Tojo that we had the means with which to utterly destroy Japan if they did not surrender and we could do it one bomb, on city at a time.
The end result was a savings of over 5 million Japanese lives and 1-2 million Allied lives if not more.
Japanâs culture survived intact as well which it would not have had we been forced to carry on a ground war on the Japanese mainland.
Says the infanticide supporter. Can anyone say âHypocriteâ?
Why in the world would you think that, April Glaspie was on holiday, she was just having tea and crumpets with SH, and nothing she said to him was representative of any official US position.
Well well well, look what I found, dated May 7 no less, before Iran attacked the ship:
We deployed an entire squadron of B-52âs and directed a carrier TFG to the region at the end of May to let the Iranians know their threats will not go unanswered and that should they act on them, the response will be one that is utterly devastating.
Iâd hate for us to have to act but in reality itâs probably inevitable, the only question is when, and to what degree it will be necessary.
Iran has been a cancer on the region since 79 and responsible for most of the terrorism throughout the region since.
I do not recall ever having said that we should âgo to warâ with Iran. (Merely taking out their navy and air forceâwithout any official declaration of warâshould do quite nicely, I think.)
And your call for âextreme skepticismâ of whatever the US government says speaks volumes.
Oh, and your âindependent expertââI cite the author of the pieceâis a dyed-in-the-wool Muslim; therefore, hardly a supporter of anything âTrumpan,â to use his terminology.
Note: Please pardon the double negative in the sentence that you quoted (ânot hardlyâ). In editing, I simply neglected to delete the word ânot.â
So you donât think that attacking another countries military forces is going to war, thatâs odd. You think theyâre not going to fight backâŚ
But I never said thatâŚ
We should have blown Iran to hell a long time ago. Just wipe the fuckers out. Period