Israel launches attack on Iran | US bombs Iran nuke sites

superrific said:
The world? The world had Iran's program contained. TRUMP should never have let Iran get this far, though in truth there's no way to prevent them from getting a nuke one way or another.
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I could envision a scenario where North Korea or Russia gives Iran a single nuke for the purpose of controlled detonation and then Iran announcing to the world “we have a nuke and more where that came from so fuck off”. And then they just sit back secure in the knowledge that world thinks it has nukes, but really does not.
 
dukeman92 said:
Israel should have considered that before starting a war.
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Israel did consider that. They have undoubtedly tried to bring us into this action. The question now is whether the spectacular success of their operation has changed the landscape so that is in the strategic interests of the US to take out Fordow.

You can disapprove of Israel's intentions while at the same time taking advantage of the opportunity now presented.
 
Chuck Todd (on CNN) said his sources have indicated Trump is waiting on assurances that a US bomb attack would be successful.
 
dukeman92 said:
Spectacular success... so successful that they need us to finish it. No thanks.
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I'll give Israel this: If they came to Trump with a proposal that if they crippled Hezbollah, got rid of Assad, and took out Iran's senior military leadership, will you (Trump) drop a couple of bunker busters on their nuclear facility, I'd say they delivered on their side of the bargain...
 
Saw interview today on CNN with Barak Ravid of Axios erc who said it has become a race of what holds up longer: Israel's supply of intervept missiles vs Irtanian launders and ballistic missiles. He saeem ed to suggest that the outcome is up in air and Isreal could potentially run out and be defgenseless.
I think both sides need a 2 week ceasfire. In Israel's case it would allow them to replenish their intercecp missile supply and allow time for more US military assets to get into region and thus can help more with intercepts as welll. When this happened last year, US had more miitary asssets in the region so fewer missiles got rhough.
 
RaiGuy said:
They might not shoot down that plane, but if the US gets involved, it will put all our troops that are in based in the Middle East in danger.
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and it would put the entire western world, america in particular, at a heightened risk of retaliatory terror attacks.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Then Israel can march their asses in there and do it if they want to.
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You are on the wrong side of this. We have a moral obligation to keep the largest sponsor of terror in the world from getting a nuke. It’s really that simple. How we go about that is the hard part but we have to act in some manner
 
Huh? said:
We are the only ones who can take out Fordow from the air. Only US pilots can fly US-owned B-2s needed to drop US-owned MOABs.
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I think you are confusing MOAB with a bunker buster type bomb.

MOAB is an air blast thermobaric weapon. It would be completely useless against that facility.
 
heelslegup said:
Saw interview today on CNN with Barak Ravid of Axios erc who said it has become a race of what holds up longer: Israel's supply of intervept missiles vs Irtanian launders and ballistic missiles. He saeem ed to suggest that the outcome is up in air and Isreal could potentially run out and be defgenseless.
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Started a little early today, eh legup?
 
gregh1 said:
Again, what is to keep them from being destructive to America even if Iran's own facilities are incapacitated. We know they're somewhat advanced in cyber-warfare. 9/11 showed us that it doesn't take much to inflict harm.

What's the end game after we're done dropping bombs and shooting missiles (however long that takes)? We tried regime change in Iraq and that gave us Isis. We're still in Iraq. We basically stalemated with the Taliban in Afghanistan and Iran is TWICE as large as Afghanistan.
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I think the world is safer if a Muslim terrorist country doesn't have a nuke and I don't mind if a US bomb is the final straw that breaks the Fardow back to ensure that Iran doesn't have a nuke anytime soon and hopefully never.

If the US has to drop another bomb on Iran in 10 years, because they're close to being nuclear, I'll very likely be fine with that, also.
 
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