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Iran though is backed into a corner; if they do not retaliate, then Iran will be view as very weak, and may cause internal dissent due to this by a combination of fronts. In the ME area, they will be viewed weak because what, zero retaliation due to such an event? However, if they do retaliate, then things could get ramped up quickly, and more severely, to the point the regime itself may be at risk of a direct attack, or having a significant portion of their military destroyed, thus control of Iran and perhaps the regime gets ousted.
Which is why they may very well decide to retaliate 1) through a proxy terrorist group, such as Hezbollah, against a proxy target, such as Israel.
Targeted assassinations are illegal. This is only going to cause Iran to hate us even more & retaliate. They have a 'next man up' motto so this was a terrible move by the U.S. or Trump. Someone didn't think this through at all.
They're illegal? Then why wasn't anything done when Saint Obama did it 193 times?
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President Barack Obama has authorized 193 drone strikes in Pakistan since he took office in 2009, more than four times the number of attacks that President George W. Bush authorized during his two terms, according to the New America Foundation, a Washington-based public-policy institute.
Unmanned aircraft became part of the US arsenal in the 1990s, as reconnaissance drones recorded images of terrain in the Balkans. After the September 2001 terrorist attacks, President Bush signed a directive that authorized arming the drones, called Predators, with Hellfire missiles to try to take out terrorism suspects, according to military officials. He later widened the directive to allow strikes against anyone working inside terrorist camps, not just individual suspects.
Just in case anyone gets the idea that Americans will always support a wartime President, just ask Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon how well that that works out, particularly when it occurs in a place most people couldn't find on a map if you spotted them a hemisphere.
Targeted assassinations are illegal. This is only going to cause Iran to hate us even more & retaliate. They have a 'next man up' motto so this was a terrible move by the U.S. or Trump. Someone didn't think this through at all.
You mean like when Osama bin Laden was targeted and executed under Obama? Was that illegal too, then?
You mean like when Osama bin Laden was targeted and executed under Obama? Was that illegal too, then?
Exactly, I was super proud of Obama for taking out OBL, sadly, the America hating left can’t seem to give credit to our great President for taking out these terrorist vermin.
You mean like when Osama bin Laden was targeted and executed under Obama? Was that illegal too, then?
I suppose if you equate an attack on American soil the same as trashing an embassy overseas you might have a point... The only reason Obama did it was Bush couldn't get the job done right.
Iran though is backed into a corner; if they do not retaliate, then Iran will be view as very weak, and may cause internal dissent due to this by a combination of fronts. In the ME area, they will be viewed weak because what, zero retaliation due to such an event? However, if they do retaliate, then things could get ramped up quickly, and more severely, to the point the regime itself may be at risk of a direct attack, or having a significant portion of their military destroyed, thus control of Iran and perhaps the regime gets ousted.
You’re dreaming.
If ousting the regime was possible, we would’ve done it a long time ago.
You can’t back the Iranians into a corner in their own region. It’s their home, we’re just visiting. Didn’t you learn anything from the 4500 dead Americans in Iraq?
The Iranians will bide their time and respond in kind. We’ve just knocked a hornet’s nest down to the ground, and the Iranian wasps WILL sting....hard. And people are gonna get hurt. Badly.
I hope you’ll be sounding this cocky in a year.
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