War Iran-United States Military Crisis of 2020 - US Baghdad embassy under siege, rocket fire in US Baghdad green zone, Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 crash, and more!

ZMOT · Jan 10, 2020

Secret Asshole said:
I'll just say this: Tactical Geniuses don't get a hellfire missile up the asshole. The guy should have known he was a walking target, he didn't.

he probably ran around long enough unscathed that he became complacent and high on his farts, and that's what did him in. wouldn't be the first time and definitely not the last.

Jarolleon · Jan 10, 2020

LetThemEatCake said:
You could ask them to be rational and ask them how 'world wars' work, in that they require a multiplicity of nations forming sides and forming battles line and battling it out in different theatres of war across many countries. Who would ally with Iran? Who would ally with the US? Do they know about NATO? Do they know Iran is a pariah actvely hated by many Middle Eastern countries and only having allies in a couple of places, one of which has been in a civil war since 2011?

Did they get this exercised about the endless goings-on in the Middle East before this? The endless little proixy wars that have been going on there since the Arab Spring? About Obama dn Hilary tearing Libya to shred, to the point it now has two warring governments each supported by various nations. Did they worry about Erdogan's sending troops into Libya last week? Why would this be a 'world war' if the Iraqi invasion wasn't? Did they get this scared when India and Pakistan were on the brink of nuclear fisticuff the other year? Were they bothered about Barack Obama's endless drone strikes in the Middle East, his creation of the Disposition Matrix, the CIA database of non-judicial murder targets or just when Trump had this old enemy of the US who'd just ordered an attack on an American embassy fried?

Most people think that World Wars start because some small country gets attacked & everyone who likes them or hates the attackers just jumps in like it's a game of Civ, because that's how it's taught in high school. So the power of TDS will compel much of the world to dogpile the US at the first opportunity (i.e. any war with a country that isn't a total shithole) because "Drumpf made us a pariah!!1".

Your Weird Fetish · Jan 10, 2020

Ivan Shatov said:
Sadly, I agree with you: Congress should not be informed of anything above statutory requirements. And leakers should be punished severely.

The people out to get Trump have conflicting allegiances and no regard for the security of the US. There's been a lot of talk about Trump giving up Syria / Ukraine, whether or not he's a Russian asset, emoluments, white supremacy, etc. It's infected the legislative branch, open talk about admiration for foreign powers happens in every Democratic office. Anything the executive shares has a good chance of being turned over to foreign intelligence services swiftly.

I didn't think it before, but the Resistance has really turned traitor. People's thirst for Trump's head has gotten the better of them.

This is nothing new. Free countries never can keep much under wraps.

thx1138 · Jan 10, 2020

Secret Asshole said:
I guess we should say thank you to the glow in the darks since they didn't fuck up with their assets and info gathering.

It makes me think the whole thing was pure MI or DIA work rather than involving the FBI or CIA. I don't trust anything those two agencies do anymore. A successful, non-collateral casualty hit? Pfft, that wasn't the CIA I guaran-goddamn-tee. And if they did have a hand in bagging Solemani I'm entirely sure them not missing him and instead accidentally blowing up an ambulance or field hospital or Iraqi air-base security vehicle was entirely good luck and not by design.

I mean we all realize the reason Pelosi and Schumer are pissed off is because they couldn't leak the jump off to the press, and circuitously to Iran, to get egg on Trump's face, right?

wtfNeedSignUp · Jan 10, 2020

I have a theory that the plane the Iranians shot down had some high ranking figure that tried to defect. It was too late to stop him before the plane took off, so the Iranians downed the whole thing.

Ponderous Pillock · Jan 10, 2020

LetThemEatCake said:
Well, I see Soleimani's replacement is promoted well beyond his competence level. The old general must be whirling in his fucking grave right now.

This is desperate. Anyone who knows anything already knew Hezbollah took direct orders from Iran via Soleimani, and everyone was aware of Iran funding the stupid Houthis in a proxy war against KSA, but I also see a Hamas flag there too, 7th from the left. Way to go admitting to THAT one in public. Plus your Pak/Afghan guys, basically Hezbollah Pakistan/Afghanistan. You fucking muppets.

Iran is an absolute lolcow of epic proportions. They must be feeling seriously insecure and shaky to go about stuff like this.

It's HK-47 said:
When is this entire fiasco going to stop being such a clusterfuck for Iran? It's like one fuck-up piling on top of another fuck-up and I'm starting to lose track of all the fuck-ups now. So after all of this time and all of these denials, they pick right just now to take ownership of Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hashd al-Shaabi, Hamas, Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainabiyoun.

For no reason, completely unprompted, they wandered out on stage and took ownership of all of these regional groups after spending all of this fucking time pretending that they were anything but an extension of the Iranian military. That's just astounding; why the fuck would they do that?

Simple, it's their attempt at a show of strength. They're showing how far their reach in the Middle East actually goes as opposed to what people think. Iran has actually made no bones about "furthering the Islamic Revolution" in its weird semi-soviet language and they want more copies of Iran out there. It's also why these groups are various shades of utter shit when they do manage to get a bit of power.

Your Weird Fetish said:
This is nothing new. Free countries never can keep much under wraps.

Germany got locked out of FIVE EYES intel sharing a few years ago because of how fucking idiotically leaky they'd become. Random Green MP's were standing up in the Bundestag and asking questions about shit they shouldn't know whatsoever.

Pocket Dragoon · Jan 10, 2020

Secret Asshole said:
I'll just say this: Tactical Geniuses don't get a hellfire missile up the asshole. The guy should have known he was a walking target, he didn't. He should have known that the Iraqis fucking hated him worse than the Americans, he didn't. He should have locked down HUMINT on him, he didn't. He was an arrogant faggot that thought he could ride around fine and he was untouchable. Now he's ground fucking hamburger, Iraqi civvies are burning down his shit and his replacement has his head up his asshole. Also I guess we should say thank you to the glow in the darks since they didn't fuck up with their assets and info gathering.

I severely doubt our glow-nigs "assets" had anything to do with developing & delivering the goods on Suleimani.

The whole blood-grudge thing is alive & well in hajiworld; most Westerners fail to grasp the concept, much less consider it as motivator for working with us by selling the competition out.

It's largely generational, too; the kids who had their whole families & clans erased in the war with Iran have survived & simmered long enough to more than even the score. They've had the time to figure out how best to punk Iran, no need for glownogs.

But by the same token, all those haji millenials and zoomers are going to have the same blood-grudge obligation with us; it never ends...... which is a key component of their culture's design.

Shield Breaker · Jan 10, 2020

It's HK-47 said:
When is this entire fiasco going to stop being such a clusterfuck for Iran? It's like one fuck-up piling on top of another fuck-up and I'm starting to lose track of all the fuck-ups now. So after all of this time and all of these denials, they pick right just now to take ownership of Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hashd al-Shaabi, Hamas, Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainabiyoun.

For no reason, completely unprompted, they wandered out on stage and took ownership of all of these regional groups after spending all of this fucking time pretending that they were anything but an extension of the Iranian military. That's just astounding; why the fuck would they do that?

20 Luck + Weird Wasteland perk.

Freddy Freaker · Jan 10, 2020

It's HK-47 said:
When is this entire fiasco going to stop being such a clusterfuck for Iran? It's like one fuck-up piling on top of another fuck-up and I'm starting to lose track of all the fuck-ups now. So after all of this time and all of these denials, they pick right just now to take ownership of Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hashd al-Shaabi, Hamas, Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainabiyoun.

For no reason, completely unprompted, they wandered out on stage and took ownership of all of these regional groups after spending all of this fucking time pretending that they were anything but an extension of the Iranian military. That's just astounding; why the fuck would they do that?

B-but Iran dindu nuffin! Persians are pure aryan cinnamon rolls saving teh world from muh ebil joos! They aren't sponsoring terrorism, those groups are all baste ummah fighting the (((saudis)))!

Ivan Shatov · Jan 10, 2020

Your Weird Fetish said:
This is nothing new. Free countries never can keep much under wraps.

This is different.

There is no culture of patriotism on the Left. Outside of the Hart Senate Office building, everyday, black clad adults circle around in a form of silent protest. They're mostly children of privilege, who should be working as lawyers or doctors or educators, so caught up in the media narrative that nihilism seemed the best option. They're the opposite of know-nothings, they think they know everything and they're happy to point fingers. There aren't many signs, their presence is testimony to this compact of grievance, accepted without question and overriding all sense of personal interest.

The Democrats trade with them, bringing out coffee and tea, cardboard boxes of vegan baked goods being regularly removed from the streets. In return, they get acceptance for the world view they're selling, this absence of hope and sense the system must come down so it can be remade in a better image. It's cold in DC, but not cold enough to force them to take shelter. You often see them staring into iPhone, speaking in hushed tones over the latest outrage broadcast through the channels they follow.

Police have to get through the crowd from time to time, usually without issue. Sometimes, there's enough of them to make getting past the curb a problem. For everyone else, there's a constant sense of judgement as you go through doorways. I've seen their cold, dead eyes staring back, joyless and absent, checking lapel pins for affiliations. Sometimes they do speak at you, in mute hoarse tones that communicate their distaste for this one or that one. When there's a noise, someone talking a little too loud, all eyes are on them in the hope something will happen. But it never does.

These are the Democrats attack dogs. They're slight and puny, their job is not to fight. They are there to shriek when someone says go, the only duty they've been programmed to perform. Strength doesn't win their battles, just numbers. Somewhere along the way, society failed them and the rot slipped in through the cracks.

I've never looked at other Americans this way before. It makes me think of McArthur and the Bonus Army, I always wondered how he could do that to Vets. It's a choice, really, between the Union and it's rejects, prosperity and a cult of the end.

The Democrats chose. It's not what anyone would have liked, and I believe there's no good end ahead.

Your Weird Fetish · Jan 10, 2020

It's just like it was in the 60's, you just noticed it now.

Ghostse · Jan 10, 2020

Secret Asshole said:
I'll just say this: Tactical Geniuses don't get a hellfire missile up the asshole. The guy should have known he was a walking target, he didn't. He should have known that the Iraqis fucking hated him worse than the Americans, he didn't. He should have locked down HUMINT on him, he didn't. He was an arrogant faggot that thought he could ride around fine and he was untouchable. Now he's ground fucking hamburger, Iraqi civvies are burning down his shit and his replacement has his head up his asshole. Also I guess we should say thank you to the glow in the darks since they didn't fuck up with their assets and info gathering.

Iran has been thoroughly fucking embarrassed by this debacle. It has only inflamed other nations against them, thoroughly pushed back any support by their super power allies and invigorated resistance against them.

Also I wouldn't tell Congress shit. They don't deserve to know. Especially after they fucked him on getting Baghdadi. And the war powers limitation is laughable, non-binding and unconstitutional. Every President has 'respected' the war powers act, but none has abide by it. Trump needs no permission from Congress to do shit. Commander-in-Chief means just that: He is the head of the military. Period. End. The Supreme Court is NOT going to give Congress powers over that position.

Its also a moot point since we're not invading Iran. We responded and Iran has shit all over themselves so badly on the world stage they cannot afford to do anything else because it has just been embarrassment after embarrassment for them. Their image as a regional superpower has basically been demolished. And the best part is they can't do anything about it. Because they've fucked up so massively, so thoroughly, no ally will back them if they charge naked with a scimitar at American predator drones.

TBF from 2008-2016, that nigga could have been on video tape raping Americans and goats to death, and then gone on a guided tour of the CIA, FBI, and pentagon with no fear because Obama was a bitchmade cucked out nigga trying to secure his "legacy".
He kept his shenanigans going for 3 years under "mad dog" Trump, so I can see him & Iran believing they were leakproof and going to keep playing their games.

And truth be told, they could have if Salami and his minions hadn't gone for the embassy.

It's HK-47 · Jan 10, 2020

I mean if they're willing to admit ownership over those groups, and with some of those groups holding responsibility for attacking the embassy, then Iran just admitted that it attacked the embassy, ergo the retaliation was perfectly justified. That single-handedly murdered that entire "But Iran didn't attack the embassy" narrative, didn't it?

Adamska · Jan 10, 2020

It's HK-47 said:
I mean if they're willing to admit ownership over those groups, and with some of those groups holding responsibility for attacking the embassy, then Iran just admitted that it attacked the embassy, ergo the retaliation was perfectly justified. That single-handedly murdered that entire "But Iran didn't attack the embassy" narrative, didn't it?

This is why dictatorships don't work; you rely on one dude to make things work, and then fall apart when he inevitably loses his touch or dies. Made all the worst because this is protocol to avoid being replaced, so you can't even fix it that quickly when, not if, it happens.

Because how dare you have competent subordinates who'd be able to not rat out that all of those militias are state assets.

JosephStalin · Jan 10, 2020

Secret Asshole made a very good point - Their image as a regional superpower has basically been demolished. And the best part is they can't do anything about it.

Here's an article that builds on that point.

https://spectator.us/elimination-qasem-soleimani-farewell-letter/

Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter

President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter

Roger Kimball

In July 55 BC, in the midst of his campaigns to civilize Gaul, Julius Caesar was troubled by the Germans. They would cross the Rhine, wreak havoc, and then disappear back across the mighty river, whose depth and swift currents made the Germans regard it as an impregnable barrier.

To teach them that it wasn’t, Caesar had his engineers construct a bridge across the Rhine. As Caesar recounts in Book IV of his commentaries on the Gallic War, they did this in an astonishing 10 days. Caesar and his troops crossed over, stayed for a few days in German territory, ‘burned all their villages and other buildings, and cut down the grain in their fields’. They then crossed back over and destroyed the bridge.

The point, which was not lost on the Germans, was that the Romans could go anywhere they wanted, whenever they wanted, and there was nothing the Germans could do about it.

Last week, Donald Trump demonstrated something similar to the Iranian mullahs when he introduced Qasem Soleimani to the payload of a couple of MQ-9 Reaper drones. The Americans, they now know, can go anywhere, anytime, and can pick off anyone they like with pinpoint precision. At 1:00 a.m. Baghdad time on January 3, Soleimani is sharing a latte with his pal Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, presumably dreaming about the American diplomats they are going to kill. 1:01 a.m., poof! No more bad guys.

To alter the image: for the mullahs, the elimination of Soleimani was a teachable moment. It was like that famous scene in The Godfather when the movie producer Jack Woltz wakes up and find the head of his prize racehorse oozing gore onto the duvet. Woltz had insisted that he would not put Johnny Fontane in a movie, despite the entreaties of the Corleones. The horse’s head changed his mind.

There are three takeaways from the vaporization of Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. One concerns the mullahs and official Iranian spokesmen. They are jumping up and down, wailing like incensed toddlers, but their histrionics are meaningless. Or rather, what they mean is that the mullahs, like Caesar’s Germans, and like Jack Woltz in The Godfather, understand that they have been issued an offer they can’t refuse.

A few days ago, Operation Martyr Soleimani, in which Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched 22 ballistic missiles at the Ayn al-Asad airbase in Iraq, demonstrated that they have folded. The Iranians are capable of carrying out precision attacks. They demonstrated that in their drone assault on the Saudi oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in September. But their faux attack on the al-Asad airbase was notable for its impotence. Material damage was slight. There were no casualties, apart that is, from the myth of Iranian resistance.

The second take away concerns the mainstream media in the US and elsewhere. The pink dust of Soleimani hadn’t settled before they were shouting about Donald Trump having started World War III. How did you make out in World War III? It was quiet here on the East Coast. I am still not sure how much of the media’s hysterical emoting (it cannot be called ‘reporting’) was due to simple ignorance and how much was due to ineradicable hatred and underestimation of Donald Trump. On the world stage, Iran is a bit player, especially now that the United States does not need Middle Eastern oil. Really, Iran is an exotic curiosity, a country with a magnificent past that has been captive of an insane theocratic ideology for the past 40 years. Iran is not the staging ground of World War III, just a brutal and pathetic backwater.

The ignorance didn’t stop there, of course. There was — and continues to be — a cataract of handwringing speculation about the legitimacy of President Trump’s order to eliminate Soleimani. The adults in the room instantly understood that 1) Soleimani was an extremely high value target and 2) that the president was perfectly justified in taking him out. But that was only the adults. The vast Romper Room has been whining away, demonstrating their ignorance of the president’s constitutional powers when not actively siding with the Iranian madmen. The public has taken note, but it is not clear that the media has taken note of the public’s dawning epiphany.

What I say about the mainstream media is doubly true of the Democratic establishment, but that is almost a necessary truth since, like Hesperus and Phosphorus — the evening star and the morning star — they are two names for the same thing. ‘How dare Donald Trump act without consulting us!’ the herd of grandstanding parasites moan. But as many dispassionate commentators have pointed out, the president was perfectly within his rights as Commander in Chief to order the elimination of a terrorist actively plotting against US interests and citizens.
The third take away concerns Donald Trump and his legacy. In acting decisively in response to the sighting of Soleimani and his henchman, in acting with caution and deliberation in response to Iran’s calculatedly feeble response, President Trump has showed both that you attack the United States or its people at your peril and that America is getting out of the nation-building neocon regime-change business.

The elimination of Soleimani was not a prelude to deeper US involvement in the Middle East. It was a farewell letter. Always admitting the fickleness of contingency, it nonetheless looks as though Donald Trump will go down as the man who catalyzed the United States economy, who brought unemployment down to historic lows, who goosed real wages, especially at the lower levels, who made important inroads against the stultifying miasma of the the regulatory state while also resuscitating the US military, curbing illegal immigration, and — just now — extricating the United States from foreign involvements that help no one but our enemies.

President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter. Hollywood, like Chuck Todd and Nancy Pelosi and Bill Kristol, can whine and yelp and snivel all they want. The world increasingly turns a blind eye to their narcissistic antics. As the old Arab proverb puts, the dogs are barking but the caravan moves on.

Super-Chevy454 · Jan 10, 2020

mindlessobserver said:
With the big guy dead, all those incompetents are suddenly at loose ends and nobody is around to dick slap them when they plan on doing something stupid. Iran shooting down a Ukrainian airliner also makes perfect sense when you consider this.

And just to continue to annoy those who cried for that SOFB Soleimani like the numerous Hollywood celebrities, let's play that classic song from the Wizard of Oz.

An Ghost · Jan 10, 2020

Ponderous Pillock · Jan 10, 2020

An Ghost said:
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Lovely, so personal belongings, bits of machine etc just for looters and scavvers to enjoy.

Secret Asshole · Jan 10, 2020

Because Iran shot it down and they want to remove the evidence. Really fucking obvious play.

Ivan Shatov said:
Sadly, I agree with you: Congress should not be informed of anything above statutory requirements. And leakers should be punished severely.

The people out to get Trump have conflicting allegiances and no regard for the security of the US. There's been a lot of talk about Trump giving up Syria / Ukraine, whether or not he's a Russian asset, emoluments, white supremacy, etc. It's infected the legislative branch, open talk about admiration for foreign powers happens in every Democratic office. Anything the executive shares has a good chance of being turned over to foreign intelligence services swiftly.

I didn't think it before, but the Resistance has really turned traitor. People's thirst for Trump's head has gotten the better of them.

I mean, Congress was always leaky as shit. Trump has just made people lose their fucking minds. He really can't communicate to them at all, and now that he's impeached, there's no way he is granting Congress any favors other than the ones he has to do. Right now Republicans hold the Executive and Judicial. The Legislative is in full rebellion mode.

thx1138 said:
It makes me think the whole thing was pure MI or DIA work rather than involving the FBI or CIA. I don't trust anything those two agencies do anymore. A successful, non-collateral casualty hit? Pfft, that wasn't the CIA I guaran-goddamn-tee. And if they did have a hand in bagging Solemani I'm entirely sure them not missing him and instead accidentally blowing up an ambulance or field hospital or Iraqi air-base security vehicle was entirely good luck and not by design.

I mean we all realize the reason Pelosi and Schumer are pissed off is because they couldn't leak the jump off to the press, and circuitously to Iran, to get egg on Trump's face, right?

Pocket Dragoon said:
I severely doubt our glow-nigs "assets" had anything to do with developing & delivering the goods on Suleimani.

The whole blood-grudge thing is alive & well in hajiworld; most Westerners fail to grasp the concept, much less consider it as motivator for working with us by selling the competition out.

It's largely generational, too; the kids who had their whole families & clans erased in the war with Iran have survived & simmered long enough to more than even the score. They've had the time to figure out how best to punk Iran, no need for glownogs.

But by the same token, all those haji millenials and zoomers are going to have the same blood-grudge obligation with us; it never ends...... which is a key component of their culture's design.

True enough. This operation seems too competent to be one orchestrated by the CIA. It was probably the DIA that did it. Its far too competent for the CIA. But then again, the CIA did design the sword missile, probably because they can't be trusted with actual explosive ordinance.

And of course they are. The Dems are facing a brutal 2020 election cycle and they need to fuck him up more than the country to succeed.

Ghostse said:
TBF from 2008-2016, that nigga could have been on video tape raping Americans and goats to death, and then gone on a guided tour of the CIA, FBI, and pentagon with no fear because Obama was a bitchmade cucked out nigga trying to secure his "legacy".
He kept his shenanigans going for 3 years under "mad dog" Trump, so I can see him & Iran believing they were leakproof and going to keep playing their games.

And truth be told, they could have if Salami and his minions hadn't gone for the embassy.

Well, nobody in the US wants to put 'embassy' and 'Iran' in the same sentence. If he didn't go after the embassy and just fucked around in Iraq, he'd still be breathing. But Trump didn't want Iranian hostage crisis #2 so close to an election so he got predator droned.

Super-Chevy454 said:
And just to continue to annoy those who cried for that SOFB Soleimani like the numerous Hollywood celebrities, let's play that classic song from the Wizard of Oz.

People crying over him disgust me. The only reason they did was because the guy shitposted back against Trump and they clapped. No one in the world except Iran is upset this guy got murked.

JosephStalin said:
Secret Asshole made a very good point - Their image as a regional superpower has basically been demolished. And the best part is they can't do anything about it.

Here's an article that builds on that point.

https://spectator.us/elimination-qasem-soleimani-farewell-letter/

Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter

President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter

Roger Kimball

In July 55 BC, in the midst of his campaigns to civilize Gaul, Julius Caesar was troubled by the Germans. They would cross the Rhine, wreak havoc, and then disappear back across the mighty river, whose depth and swift currents made the Germans regard it as an impregnable barrier.

To teach them that it wasn’t, Caesar had his engineers construct a bridge across the Rhine. As Caesar recounts in Book IV of his commentaries on the Gallic War, they did this in an astonishing 10 days. Caesar and his troops crossed over, stayed for a few days in German territory, ‘burned all their villages and other buildings, and cut down the grain in their fields’. They then crossed back over and destroyed the bridge.

The point, which was not lost on the Germans, was that the Romans could go anywhere they wanted, whenever they wanted, and there was nothing the Germans could do about it.

Last week, Donald Trump demonstrated something similar to the Iranian mullahs when he introduced Qasem Soleimani to the payload of a couple of MQ-9 Reaper drones. The Americans, they now know, can go anywhere, anytime, and can pick off anyone they like with pinpoint precision. At 1:00 a.m. Baghdad time on January 3, Soleimani is sharing a latte with his pal Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, presumably dreaming about the American diplomats they are going to kill. 1:01 a.m., poof! No more bad guys.

To alter the image: for the mullahs, the elimination of Soleimani was a teachable moment. It was like that famous scene in The Godfather when the movie producer Jack Woltz wakes up and find the head of his prize racehorse oozing gore onto the duvet. Woltz had insisted that he would not put Johnny Fontane in a movie, despite the entreaties of the Corleones. The horse’s head changed his mind.

There are three takeaways from the vaporization of Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. One concerns the mullahs and official Iranian spokesmen. They are jumping up and down, wailing like incensed toddlers, but their histrionics are meaningless. Or rather, what they mean is that the mullahs, like Caesar’s Germans, and like Jack Woltz in The Godfather, understand that they have been issued an offer they can’t refuse.

A few days ago, Operation Martyr Soleimani, in which Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched 22 ballistic missiles at the Ayn al-Asad airbase in Iraq, demonstrated that they have folded. The Iranians are capable of carrying out precision attacks. They demonstrated that in their drone assault on the Saudi oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in September. But their faux attack on the al-Asad airbase was notable for its impotence. Material damage was slight. There were no casualties, apart that is, from the myth of Iranian resistance.

The second take away concerns the mainstream media in the US and elsewhere. The pink dust of Soleimani hadn’t settled before they were shouting about Donald Trump having started World War III. How did you make out in World War III? It was quiet here on the East Coast. I am still not sure how much of the media’s hysterical emoting (it cannot be called ‘reporting’) was due to simple ignorance and how much was due to ineradicable hatred and underestimation of Donald Trump. On the world stage, Iran is a bit player, especially now that the United States does not need Middle Eastern oil. Really, Iran is an exotic curiosity, a country with a magnificent past that has been captive of an insane theocratic ideology for the past 40 years. Iran is not the staging ground of World War III, just a brutal and pathetic backwater.

The ignorance didn’t stop there, of course. There was — and continues to be — a cataract of handwringing speculation about the legitimacy of President Trump’s order to eliminate Soleimani. The adults in the room instantly understood that 1) Soleimani was an extremely high value target and 2) that the president was perfectly justified in taking him out. But that was only the adults. The vast Romper Room has been whining away, demonstrating their ignorance of the president’s constitutional powers when not actively siding with the Iranian madmen. The public has taken note, but it is not clear that the media has taken note of the public’s dawning epiphany.

What I say about the mainstream media is doubly true of the Democratic establishment, but that is almost a necessary truth since, like Hesperus and Phosphorus — the evening star and the morning star — they are two names for the same thing. ‘How dare Donald Trump act without consulting us!’ the herd of grandstanding parasites moan. But as many dispassionate commentators have pointed out, the president was perfectly within his rights as Commander in Chief to order the elimination of a terrorist actively plotting against US interests and citizens.
The third take away concerns Donald Trump and his legacy. In acting decisively in response to the sighting of Soleimani and his henchman, in acting with caution and deliberation in response to Iran’s calculatedly feeble response, President Trump has showed both that you attack the United States or its people at your peril and that America is getting out of the nation-building neocon regime-change business.

The elimination of Soleimani was not a prelude to deeper US involvement in the Middle East. It was a farewell letter. Always admitting the fickleness of contingency, it nonetheless looks as though Donald Trump will go down as the man who catalyzed the United States economy, who brought unemployment down to historic lows, who goosed real wages, especially at the lower levels, who made important inroads against the stultifying miasma of the the regulatory state while also resuscitating the US military, curbing illegal immigration, and — just now — extricating the United States from foreign involvements that help no one but our enemies.

President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter. Hollywood, like Chuck Todd and Nancy Pelosi and Bill Kristol, can whine and yelp and snivel all they want. The world increasingly turns a blind eye to their narcissistic antics. As the old Arab proverb puts, the dogs are barking but the caravan moves on.

Thanks, yeah, this article is a very good point on that matter. It really is hysterical, they can't do a thing but watch as their power crumbles and even Israel taking a piece of that ass (Unidentified fighter jets murking ME dudes is typically always Israel).

millais · Jan 10, 2020

Iran's list of shithole-tier allies grows...

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