His contention is that Iran has no intention of negotiating in good faith. They are simply trying to run out the clock on Trump and the U.S.A., and the time for negotiations has passed.
In my opinion, there are 3 options:
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Continue to negotiate. This seems to be going nowhere, imo.
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Return to combat operations.
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Limp home with our tail between our legs with no further action, which seems to be what the left prefers. This would be both devastating to international prestige and deeply humiliating. I know that many on the left would consider this a "win", since it works against Trump, but it would also be a huge loss for America and for global and regional security, in my opinion.
Here's the interview. What's your view?
https://youtu.be/u_1RgJV8KBA?si=6Oav4Ee9EhttW02i
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Either we resume strikes with the intention of destroying all regime personnel and the ability for them to mount any attacks at all, or we accept the inevitability they will continue terror funding and organization, and sooner or later restart their nuclear program, even if that means buying nuclear arms from NK, China, Russia, or other.
Full resume. Take out every military target and military support target.
If Iran ever achieves nukes, they’ll be as untouchable as Moscow. No one should want that. But in addition, Iran has/had been the largest funder of terrorism the world has ever seen. The regime has to go.
Firstly, I was never in favor of this action despite being around and vividly remembering our hostage situation. That being said, I believe we should have truly annihilated any chance of them having ANY TYPE of weapons for a very long time. We still haven’t learned from previous excursions to decimate the enemy until they can make war no more.
Return to combat operations, Let Keane Clean that Regime.
Trump can say all day that they want to negotiate. And there are factions that do want to negotiate.
But the IRGC is in charge (no doubt about that), and they won’t negotiate, so end them.
And how many times has Iran declared war on us . They started it and then let us finish it
Remove the material. Plan it well and minimize loss of life. And then, get the fuck out of Dodge.
it’s kind of like the ukraine situation. either go all in or get out.
either we take the gloves off, put boots on the ground and get the IRGC out of power and hand the country over to the protestors that the administration was murdering in january, or we get out.
going back to a prolonged bombing spree makes no sense. we already tried that, and this conflict should have been over a month and a half ago.
Either deploy troops and end the regime or cut a deal and declare victory even if you didn’t win.
There is no in between and since we haphazardly mishandled the Middle East for 20 years the public won’t support a ground invasion
Yup. About 45 days ago.
I think it’s time for the “big stick” rather than the “walk softly” part.
Shit or get off the pot. Finish the job.
Wipe the IRGC off the planet. Take 20% of Iran’s oil profits for the next five years to pay for our military resources we used.
The Iranian people need to form their own government. One that is the opposite of the IRGC. If they were able to defend themselves, this would be over by now.
Iran is just doing what every country that has ever been besieged by the United States has attempted to do; run the clock out until we lose the political willpower to keep fighting. And it’s obvious that at this stage, the Iranian people have no will or ability to help turn the tide against the regime.
In my humble opinion, DJT has only two options left, as strikes and bombing has produced limited results. End all talks with the Iranian regime, give the Iranian government a timeline to leave the country or face forced removal by American troops, and prepare to put boots on the ground for an invasion, which would at least let us save face and protect American credibility, at the cost of who knows how many more Americans. Again. After all the interventions and occupations we have conducted over the last 80 years. More American blood and treasure spent in a far away land for people who may turn around tomorrow and decide we are the real problem.
Or we withdraw, and allow the Iranians to take full control of the Strait and essentially return to normal function. Regime crackdowns, loss of American prestige and credibility, market instability and price hikes when Iranians start charging tolls and sending weapons to their proxies, leading to more shipping lanes being attacked. The wars in the Middle East dragging on. Our diplomatic relations and belief in our defensive treaties suffering. Perhaps China seeing this as a sign of American weakness, and an opportunity to strike Taiwan in 2027, which is a possible active goal for them already. Imagine, in the genuine worst case scenario, we get dragged into a boots on the ground war because we didn’t get into another boots on the ground war.
We are in a no-win scenario. But I think we lose a lot less if we take the gloves off and just go straight to beating the hell out of this regime. Letting them win this fight is just kicking the can down the road, as they have no reason or willingness to stop hostile operations against the US or other Western aligned nations. And at this point, the damage to our own interests would be too great and cascading to deal with.
Frankly, we should have stayed out of it, if we couldn’t strike the regime when their people were still protesting, when the regime was at it’s most unstable. We waited two months to get fleets into position, which gave them plenty of time to stabilize.