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2019-07-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Trump: U.S. destroyed Iranian drone near Strait of Hormuz

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 It's a start.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-07-19 00:31|| 2019-07-19 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 A drone for a drone.

Posted by Lex 2019-07-19 01:07|| 2019-07-19 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Someone suggested we took down the drone via electronic measures. That could explain the scare quotes around "destroyed".

Posted by SteveS 2019-07-19 01:27|| 2019-07-19 01:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The Drone had ignored "multiple calls to stand down."

Huh?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-19 01:44|| 2019-07-19 01:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm getting the feeling that everyone, media, politicians, generals, etc., involved in this shit seems to think that it's all a video game with no real consequences.

No harm, no foul, just another blip or bleep and the score goes up or down. This is worrisome.

Posted by AlanC 2019-07-19 07:27|| 2019-07-19 07:27|| Front Page Top

Posted by Omorong Black8889 2019-07-19 11:26|| 2019-07-19 11:26|| Front Page Top

#7 No harm, no foul, just another blip or bleep and the score goes up or down

Yes and no, AlanC. It is serious, but the smarter people are trying to prevent it from erupting into a full-blown confrontation.

I don't want a war with Iran, and no sane person does. Maybe we should bring our existing war on the Asian landmass to a conclusion before we contemplate launching another Asian land-based war, no?

Posted by Lex 2019-07-19 11:35|| 2019-07-19 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Another thought. Trump was elected because of popular disgust with the political class's handling of two issues: illegal immigration and the Swamp's forever wars against everybody or nearly everyone across SW Asia and N. Africa.

If Trump cannot prevent yet another war breaking out, this time with Iran, then it is a near-certainty that a Democrat will be elected in 2020.

It isn't 1980 anymore. We've had 20 years of inconclusive wars prosecuted by incompetent political leaders from both parties. Enough.

Posted by Lex 2019-07-19 11:41|| 2019-07-19 11:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Lex - any war with Iran was predicated on their nuke program being accepted (tacitly) by Oblahblah but rejected by Trump (which is in America's interest), as well as their long campaign of terror following the taking of American hostages in Carter's era. Most Americans won't like it but will understand why it happened - cowardice and weakness in the face of the Ayatollah's reign of terror

Posted by Frank G 2019-07-19 12:04|| 2019-07-19 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Disagree. Nothing is more likely to push Trump below 270 electoral votes than another war.

War w Iran = President Pocahontas in Jan. 2021.

Posted by Lex 2019-07-19 12:09|| 2019-07-19 12:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Hopefully there won't be a war. Iran is full of assholes and idiots but even they would know what it means for them. Rubble and ruin, and the ayatollah hanged in Tehran a couple of years from now.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-19 12:25|| 2019-07-19 12:25|| Front Page Top

#12 It depends on how he would prosecute the war. Get bogged down? Bad. Smack them so hard they get crushed by their own people, good.

Posted by gorb 2019-07-19 16:50|| 2019-07-19 16:50|| Front Page Top

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