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2020-01-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran and America are suddenly both naked
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Posted by 3dc 2020-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
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Posted by Jack Barnsmell4237 2020-01-09 06:50||   2020-01-09 06:50|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Creamble Omomonter4968 2020-01-09 06:52||   2020-01-09 06:52|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Creamble Omomonter4968 2020-01-09 07:08||   2020-01-09 07:08|| Front Page Top

#4 The military experts and political scientists who coined the term usually fail to note that the ability to wage “asymmetric” warfare is wholly dependent on an adversary’s willed blindness.

Or, in case of Israel, external constraints.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-09 07:26||   2020-01-09 07:26|| Front Page Top

#5 the ability to wage “asymmetric” warfare is wholly dependent on an adversary’s willed blindness.

Part and parcel of the problem with treating acts of terror as civil law violations. "Everyone knows Y is a proxy for X, but do we have *proof* X was involved?". By whacking Soleimani, Trump just short-circuited that nonsense. I'd be surprised if future Iranian attempts to invoke plausible deniability were not met head-on with an American (or Israeli) response.
Posted by SteveS 2020-01-09 11:49||   2020-01-09 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 The message Trump sent with the Soleimani strike is the exact opposite of the message the US sent by negotiating with the Taliban.

Will the Trump administration now whack a couple of Taliban who were thought to be off limits due to political considerations and start a unilateral, precipitous withdrawal?
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-01-09 15:53||   2020-01-09 15:53|| Front Page Top

#7 We can only hope.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-01-09 17:52||   2020-01-09 17:52|| Front Page Top

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