Mothra said:
BearN said:
Mothra said:
Frank Galvin said:
Mothra said:
See the above link in response to Sam.
The questions I have for the second article are: (1) what were the limits or (2) or what?
If we explained to Iran what would cause a direct US response on Iranian soil and Iran respected that decision, I am okay with that.
Tacit approval to attack our allies is weak, and not a good look. We shouldn't be ok with that, or spending a billion dollars in response to same.
Tacit approval implies Biden wasn't trying to do this on the downlow. Just because it leaked out, doesn't mean he wasn't trying to do it on the downlow. That is not "tacit" approval in my opinion.
There is not a whole lot for me to say positive about Biden, but if this was a deal he came up with, then he or whoever came up with it deserves high marks for coming up with a way past a **** no-win scenario. If the worst thing that comes of this is Iran saves face, and it cost us $1 Billion plus to avoid escalation, that is money WELL spent imo. Of course there are no guarantees either side will not escalate anyway.
Tacit means implied without being stated. Who knows, maybe they actually blurted out their approval, if it wasn't tacit.
Couldn't disagree more that was money well spent. Perhaps don't tell our enemies that it's ok to launch an attack on our allies, and this could have been avoided altogether. I for one don't like spending my taxes on such waste. No thanks. But this President has always been weak on foreign policy.
I believe it was Obama who once said Biden has never been right in his foreign policy recommendations. Ain't that the truth.
I think the choice was to spend $1 Billion in US taxpayer money to give Iran a way to save face with the hope that it would sway Israel from strong retaliation that would cost another $1 Trillion hit to the US stock market. That's why I say money well spent. Not because I think we should be lighting billion dollar bills in a tit for tat.. Of course, there is no guarantee Israel is not going to upon up a can on Iran because of this, but let's pray that cooler heads prevail.
I agree wholeheartedly with the idea that this whole thing has been one long dark comedy of errors that could have easily been avoided. And one *arguably* right move by Biden & Co does not erase their dozens of epic blunders.
I'm also not losing sight of the possibility that this administration as well as neocons on the right get a commission for every missile we fire and every warplane that flies a mission, and the $1 Billion (plus inflation) spent on this little exercise will get pumped right back in to the US Military Industrial Complex, so load up on LMT, RTX, and BA..
It's Trickle Down Economics: Neocon Style.