Israel launches attack on Iran | US bombs Iran nuke sites

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wmheel1287 said:
My flaw was in giving you a chance in the first place. You are undeserving of such.
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Whatever. I don't view anyone as undeserving (even the guy I take as a defender of Oct 7). I'm just not afraid of, or take personally opposing views. So apparently I'm way more tolerant as you.
 
p5mmr9 said:
Trump using a tactical nuclear weapon in Iran would be the single greatest mistake in US presidential history.

Legitimizing the use of modern nuclear weapons would devastate the world and mark a dark turn in global history.
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The absolute truth.
 
p5mmr9 said:
Even suggesting it is an option is a win for Putin. What a disaster.
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I haven't seen it. Did he suggest it or say something like all options are open to consideration. If HE suggested it might be viable then it was a huge mistake.
 
Huh? said:
To be clear, I don't advocate boots on the ground under any scenario. If you take out Fordow, you've crippled their nuclear capability for a decade. You likely will achieve that without an invasion force.

I don't think regime change should be an objective - we have had little to no success to date in that region.
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What if there is more than one site?
What if Iran escalates?

Adam Smith isn’t as confident as you are that this can be done without troops. And Smith is the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
 
RaiGuy said:
You leave out all the history before Oct 7 and before Hamas even existed. I’m tired of repeating the same things. You make it seem like Israel is always the victim but you don’t mention the illegal occupation, blockade, or apartheid system. You think that Palestinians want to wipe out Israel because they hate Jews, and that’s not true. You fail to bring up the Palestinians that were killed in 2023 prior to Oct 7th. You fail to bring up the Palestinians that were killed by snipers in Gaza as they peacefully protested in the years prior to 2023. I could go on and on, but it won’t matter because you are going to ignore all those facts and keep pushing the narrative that Israel is always the victim.
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1. I never said that "Palestinians want to wipe out Israel because they hate jews...."
2. I did acknowledge israel had its own issues and that they weren't free from fault. Comprehension is important
3. I didn't leave out the history before Oct 7 because the PA in WB and Hamas coming to power over Fatah in 2007 is what put the palestinians in the middle. That was a key point in my previous post.
4. I'm not ignoring anything. My student from WB said a friend of hers was shot after an argument with a group of israeli soldiers at a checkpoint that they have to pass through to leave the WB and enter israel. The soldiers threw a knife down beside her friend as their way of establishing justification. I'm not oblivious to that. I'm not justifying it nor trying to make light of it. You are talking about micro issues and I'm talking about macro / national issues.
 
dukeman92 said:
What if there is more than one site?
What if Iran escalates?

Adam Smith isn’t as confident as you are that this can be done without troops. And Smith is the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
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I'd be hard pressed to put boots on the ground. Seems we have that with israeli boots. IF a few BB won't do the job then we should provide all the defense needed to help defend israel but the offensive should be their people. Hell, they have 75% of the middle east hoping they succeed. Not likely get ever get a more favorable time from a PR pov.
 
Short of Iran’s nuclear facility being blown up, what is an alternative that would be acceptable to Israel?
 
Callatoroy said:
1. I never said that "Palestinians want to wipe out Israel because they hate jews...."
2. I did acknowledge israel had its own issues and that they weren't free from fault. Comprehension is important
3. I didn't leave out the history before Oct 7 because the PA in WB and Hamas coming to power over Fatah in 2007 is what put the palestinians in the middle. That was a key point in my previous post.
4. I'm not ignoring anything. My student from WB said a friend of hers was shot after an argument with a group of israeli soldiers at a checkpoint that they have to pass through to leave the WB and enter israel. The soldiers threw a knife down beside her friend as their way of establishing justification. I'm not oblivious to that. I'm not justifying it nor trying to make light of it. You are talking about micro issues and I'm talking about macro / national issues.
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How are the issues that affect Palestinians on a daily basis a “micro” issue? What distinguishes micro and macro in your eyes? I would say an occupation, blockade, and apartheid laws are pretty macro.
 
RaiGuy said:
How are the issues that affect Palestinians on a daily basis a “micro” issue? What distinguishes micro and macro in your eyes? I would say an occupation, blockade, and apartheid laws are pretty macro.
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They are in a certain context. Compared to existential issues they aren't. Hamas / iran are the weakest they have been in decades. Now is the time for palestinians to break away from hamas and work with israel to root out hamas and show a willingness to live peacefully. Before you go nuts over that, I understand the difficulty that presents, but if my people are getting blown up because someone who was supposed to be my advocate, but as it turns out has been using me politically and as a human shield, i'm getting out of the way and letting them get what they deserve. I'm saying palestinians could be helping themselves as unsavory as you may find it. Beats getting blown up.
 
Callatoroy said:
They are in a certain context. Compared to existential issues they aren't. Hamas / iran are the weakest they have been in decades. Now is the time for palestinians to break away from hamas and work with israel to root out hamas and show a willingness to live peacefully. Before you go nuts over that, I understand the difficulty that presents, but if my people are getting blown up because someone who was supposed to be my advocate, but as it turns out has been using me politically and as a human shield, i'm getting out of the way and letting them get what they deserve. I'm saying palestinians could be helping themselves as unsavory as you may find it. Beats getting blown up.
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Kinda sounds like how other cult members don't seem to be able to quit their dear leader or cult in spite of verifiable evidence they are being used. Hell if you and your ilk would hold your dear leader to the same standard you want for Palestinians we can save the country.
 
Callatoroy said:
They are in a certain context. Compared to existential issues they aren't. Hamas / iran are the weakest they have been in decades. Now is the time for palestinians to break away from hamas and work with israel to root out hamas and show a willingness to live peacefully. Before you go nuts over that, I understand the difficulty that presents, but if my people are getting blown up because someone who was supposed to be my advocate, but as it turns out has been using me politically and as a human shield, i'm getting out of the way and letting them get what they deserve. I'm saying palestinians could be helping themselves as unsavory as you may find it. Beats getting blown up.
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What about the West Bank? What’s the excuse there? There’s no Hamas. Also, what about Netanyahu funding Hamas and blocking elections from happening?
Even if you get rid of Hamas (which Israel does not have a plan for), another group will form if the status quo doesn’t change.
 
I said it earlier, but Israel is highly capable of defending itself without direct US military help. Thanks in large part to us, as well as their own efforts, Israel is easily one of the most heavily-armed small nations on the planet. In one sense the entire country is simply a vast armed camp. It's also widely believed that Israel already has nuclear weapons in its arsenal. There is no reason or need for us to risk the lives of American military personnel to defend a nation that is already fully capable of doing so by itself, imo.
 
nycfan said:
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The relevant question is what percentage of MAGA are isolationists who are unwilling to change their view on the matter?

A lot of them were just echoing Trump’s position and will change their mind as soon as Trump does.

Or does that question even matter since Trump can’t be reelected?
 
dukeman92 said:
What if there is more than one site?
What if Iran escalates?

Adam Smith isn’t as confident as you are that this can be done without troops. And Smith is the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
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Identification of nuclear processing facilities is one area where our signals intelligence is particularly strong. The other two identified sites apparently have been neutralized.

Fordow has been a central issue for US policy in the Middle East for 15 years. It is difficult to overstate how eliminating that plant changes the policy landscape in that region.

A reason to strike now is that Iran's ability to escalate is quite limited in the short term. It will most likely escalate in the long term, but I would prefer that escalation to occur without the specter of nuclear weapons.

If we don't achieve the objective with bombing, then we haven't achieved the objective and we are in the same situation w.r.t. Fordow as we were before. There is no current sentiment for putting troops into Iran, and I doubt that Trump will permit mission creep to occur on that issue.
 
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