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The Empire Strikes Back

Doug Watt
@DougWatt
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I came across an interesting video about Day One of the US and Israeli attack on Iran. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the video, but it does concentrate on the ability of the two strongest militaries in the world. The internet is filled with disinformation from bloggers and the media about the US and Israeli war against Iran, including statements that Iran damaged or sunk the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.

For 47 years the US has tried buying, bribing, and ignoring Iran. Demands coming from European and some NATO members to negotiate with Iran forget that they tried this with Adolf Hitler. My message to the homegrown and foreign appeasers would be that the Iranian regime will treat you no better than they treated their own citizens in the last 47 years.

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Discussion (4)

  • Old Bathos@OldBathos

    Reagan's response to the Beirut barracks bombing -- sending a WWII battleship to shell the wrong Lebanese ethnic group then leaving was a mistake in that we did not inflict pain on those responsible (including the terrorist who was the second most recent head of Iran).

    When US troops yanked Saddam from his hidey hole and then published pics of him submitting to a tongue depressor during a checkup, the Norks reaches out to say that they wanted to make it clear that they did not want us to think they did not want talks, Qaddafi expelled all the Iraqi WMD scientists to whom he had given refuge. And the rest of the world's bad guys had very tight jaws.

    Similarly, grabbing Maduro then killing Kamenei has had a salutary effect.

    To win the fight against the oikophobic domestic left it is time to confront Muslims about the express dictates of their religion and their history of violence, slavery and misogyny and remove the cover leftists provide. The idiots who cheered Oct 7 and advance intersectional idiocy need to be forced to admit what they have endorsed.

  • EODmom@EODmom
    ReplyingtoSeawriter

    Seawriter (View Comment):

    That video is likely to make a lot of anti-Trumpers big mad.

    Golly I hope so. The cynic in me wonders how many of those boats have a DEI promote skipper, female or otherwise. I’ll bet not a one. I hope the Marines and sailors onboard have the best leaders and commanders for their work. Thanks be to God for the talent and will that steadies their hands and focuses their hearts and brains. It’s work they can be proud of.