Hayabusa Rider
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Iran doesn't want to see Iraq ever regain the ability to launch another war on it like it did in the 80s. Not everything is about America.Iran getting pay back, that last round of protests they had really pissed Tehran off.
Iran and it's Shia militas want to be able to kill Americans without repercussions. Tough shit. Don't worry, I'm sure it's another situation Trump can make worse like he does with everything.
Peter Bergen writes this foolish editorial whereby he explains that Trump's decision to conduct the airstrikes is a "sensible use of force." He's calling it the emerging "Trump doctrine." He forgets that Trump must first know what a doctrine is in order to have one.
Iran doesn't want to see Iraq ever regain the ability to launch another war on it like it did in the 80s. Not everything is about America.
Iran doesn't want to see Iraq ever regain the ability to launch another war on it like it did in the 80s. Not everything is about America.
Trump has been proclaiming that his unpredictability is an advantage in foreign policy. I think that, for these smoldering tensions (Iran, North Korea, China trade war), it is the worst possible thing. Even to the extent he laid the bed for stoked tensions, no response to violent acts against us is wrong. But a doctrine is what we need with proportional responses aimed at avoiding escalation.
But a doctrine is what we need with proportional responses aimed at avoiding escalation.
If it’s an advantage in foreign policy then why does he have no foreign policy accomplishments?
this division goes back to the romans and their auxiliaries vs. the persians and theirs. the roman auxilaries tended to become sunni while the persian ones became shia (along with, of course, the persians).This region was custom made by the West to guarantee divisiveness and war. We have sown the wind and shall reap the whirlwind.
Yes but they didn't create Iraq, an artificial nation with no natural reason to exist.this division goes back to the romans and their auxiliaries vs. the persians and theirs. the roman auxilaries tended to become sunni while the persian ones became shia (along with, of course, the persians).
Most wars are useless. No American President has successfully defined our role in a post Cold War world...Somalia, Kosovo, Libya, the Arab Spring, the resurgence of Russia, the rise of China, Syria and the war on Terror...every one a reasounding failure.Vote republican and you vote for useless war.
This region was custom made by the West to guarantee divisiveness and war. We have sown the wind and shall reap the whirlwind.
My understanding is the compound security was violated and overrun, embassy proper no.Didn't Bush spend like a bazillion dollars on that embassy? And it was overrun by a bunch of angry mourners?
the conflict was going to be there regardless of the particular bounds of whatever state happened to control the area (all states are man made and, therefore, artificial). the people are intermixed, iraq has been a center of shiism since that has been a thing, while serving as the capital of the sunni abbasid caliphate (and go look at a map of what areas were directly ruled from baghdad - iraq isn't a new state).Yes but they didn't create Iraq, an artificial nation with no natural reason to exist.
Most wars are useless. No American President has successfully defined our role in a post Cold War world...Somalia, Kosovo, Libya, the Arab Spring, the resurgence of Russia, the rise of China, Syria and the war on Terror...every one a reasounding failure.
The first Gulf War was perhaps the only good example for how to deal with the insanity of the Middle East, and even in that war, we abandoned the Kurds.
Blaming Iranian backed militias for the rocket attack so we could bomb them is pure contrivance, an excuse to escalate the low level tensions already in existence. It could just as easily have been ISIS remnants. It's also a deliberate insult & injury to the already unstable Iraqi govt. With friends like us, who needs enemies?
Mishandling of Iran factored into a Republican winning one of the largest landslide elections in modern history, and set in motion a decade that culminated in America winning the Cold War.I’m glad we agree. Don’t vote republican.
Mishandling of Iran factored into a Republican winning one of the largest landslide elections in modern history, and set in motion a decade that culminated in America winning the Cold War.
As for the current situation in Iraq, we decisively retaliated against Iranian aligned and supported militias, and reinforced the embassy against a protest that’s already dispersed. Seems like a competent response.
Obama had eight years to plan our withdrawal from Iraq. Granted, its a mess he inherited, but he didn’t resolve it either.
Every reputable news source is pinning the rocket attacks on Iranian backed militias.And it gets pinned on Iranian backed militias because... it's convenient for the purpose of raising tensions with some bombing, obviously. Any number of malevolent actors could have made the rocket attack. And it's a real boon to the Iraqi govt, I'm sure. Oh, and never mind that the bombing took place 200 miles away from the rocket attack. Minor detail.
Have somebody look at your bullshit detector. I think it might be broken. Oh, and be sure to blame Obama somehow.
