Does anybody else think that Trump is displaying extreme restraint with Iran? (enemy, Israel)
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It is obvious at this point that the oil attacks in Saudi Arabia were coordinated by Iran. This has caused a spike in oil prices all over the world. The only thing Trump has done is order more sanctions on Iran.
But isn't this an act or war which calls for military action on Iran? It looks to me like Iran has crossed a red line here.
Trump is handling it appropriately. Sorry, but I don't want to start WW3 just because of what a different country did to another different country.
DT created this situation with Iran. Whether the current state of affairs is what he expected, I can't say. Thus far Iran has carefully avoided attacking the U.S. directly, which is cunning on their part.
My conspiracy theory with the Saudi oil strikes is it was the Saudis. The damage was minimal, production was back up within 48 hours and I dont believe anyone was hurt. Reason? Sanctions on Iran and keep Iranian oil off the global market.
However, If it were the Iranians....It would cause retaliation and strengthen the position of the government which is under pressure from the people from Iran.
Trump is acting and talking like he is in the Saudi's pocket. If he wasn't doing that no one would be concerned, but he is doing that, so we are concerned.
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Originally Posted by Grlzrl
They call EVERY Republican a war monger, a racist, etc.
The Republican party has always portrayed itself as strong on national defense, and accused the Democrats of being weak on national defense.
Do you deny this?
The Republican party has always been in favor of bloating the Pentagon budget, is that not correct? It's the old 'guns and butter' public policy debate, it has gone on seemingly forever.
Under G W Bush the official policy was to ready the country to be able to fight two small wars simultaneously. I have no doubt that this was simply intended to be an excuse to raise the defense budget so that defense contractors could get fat on contracts, but they wound up getting us into two wars anyway.
He's the one who's created the crisis in the first place. The middle east was on it's way to being a much safer place until we backed out of the agreement with Iran.
If I've said it once, I've said it a dozen times - Iran is who we should be siding with when given the choice of Saudi or Iran. They're young, nominally democratic, once you get rid of the Mullahs, and generally far more liberal than the terrorist extremist Saudis. Don't forget where all the WTC bombers are from, both times. It wasn't Iran...
Exactly. All of this is his own fault. Imagine if the idiot hadn't pulled out of the deal with Iran where would we be now!
It’s a good thing, I hope we do help them, but not actively involved in a war. Like China and Korea.
I'm hopeful that the 2018 massive oil and gas find in Texas/New Mexico will make it unnecessary for us to fight new wars in the Middle East, at least for the near future.
At this point we should be able to just sit back and manage the situation over there; letting the various tribes fight each other as long as there are no major ISIL-like incursions. Terrorists will still need to be dealt with, of course.
Does anybody else think that Trump is displaying extreme restraint with Iran?
Trump needs a tramp stamp with MbS in big gothic letters on it.
But what would he do with the one that says VVP?
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