I'm a baby boomer, Navy Swift Boat Vietnam combat vet, married to my high school sweetheart, with three sons, 9 grandkids and a 32-year tech career behind me.
@MEspiniera@Patrickwebb By now, mid-July, Iran could have detonated a nuke somewhere in the desert. Every nation in missile range would be quelling in fear. The Straits would be an Iranian-contrrolled waterway and you would be singing a different song. Wouldn't you?
That whole thing about us destabilizing Iran in '53 is something that is not born out by facts. The Shaw of Iran gave in to his people's wishes and handed government over to a civilian body. It was supposed to be a new way forward for Iran along with a host of other reforms meant to bring the country into the modern world. In short order, communists took control of the new government and started down the path to bringing Iran into alignment with the USSR. They did this, like they always do, by intimidation and destabilization of society and the economy. And the Shaw took back control and desolved the governing body to save his country. The communist backlash was immediate and sustained. The people, had seen just enough of where the communiste were going and were looking for another path when the religious zelots stepped into the gap. And we are where we are today.
The whole, CIA installed the Shaw thing, is a narrative that our MSM came up with. Go back and find out what really happened.
If I had been brought up being told and believing that you are satan, negotiating with you would be to damn myself for eterniity. And if I was satan, I'd crush you like a bug. Maybe, just maybe, what's going on here is that we are giving the rank and file of the IRGC time and reason to snap out of this illusion or at least to question it. The bombing says you have no defense. The lull in further action is uncharacteristic of satan. The cities, the infrastructure, the population centers largely untouched, are spell breakers and not only in Iran.
That's 3D chess.
If Trump were President in 1961 the Air Force would have covered the invasion beachhead on the Bay of Pigs, the Marine Corp would have followed the exile forces into Cuba and the Cuban people would not have had to live under a murderous regime for the next 60 plus years. There would have been no Cuban Missile Crisis. And thousands of South American people would not have died at the hands of Cuban and Cuban-trained guerrillas there.
You are right. This has nothing to do with the primary issue. The primary issue is that you believe the US is the great satan. You wish death to "America" every day. Your regime is trying to build the ability to fulfil that wish. You cannot quit and you cannot negotiate with satan. We have to stop you.
We are currently treating you like we would a child. We are taking away the sharp objects you could harm yourselves or others with. Next, we took away some of your favorite playthings, like oil exports and freedom of banking.
I think you should stand advised that the next step in this approach to your behavior is a lot more energetic. Some here call it an "attitude adjustment".
FYI, way before Epic Fury, the average 12-year old Iranian boy would gladly run a bayonet into your guts several times because you are a "Satan". If he hesitated to do so, his parents and family members would be rounded up, tortured and killed. And the people who taught him and hold his family's well being in their hands are still, as of 1900 EST tonight, telling the Pakistanis they refuse to give up their drive to attain nuclear weapons and are still shooting missiles at their neighbors. This is a war that is unavoidable. We simply decided to start it and end it.
Peter, I read your writeup and sure wish this had never happened to you. One of my boys was an EMT and told me that if death by medical malpractice were a listed as a cause of death it would rank high in a list of such causes. I hope the VA sets this right. You can help them do that by talking to the Paralyzed Veterans of America in your area. The PVA goes after cases like this like a oack of pit bulls.