Since the ‘assassination’ has now moved to open war, I have asked and received permission to open up a Gulf War 3* ‘omnibus’ thread.
Reports here: https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1214692125557895168?s=19
Assassination thread here: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=887808
*Calling it GW3 because we may not have all the belligerents officially involved yet.
Trump is planning to address the nation sometime tonight. I am sure his team’s coordination with Congress to deal with War Powers Act rules will be seamless.
Imagine I have embedded a comic of a dog drinking coffee in a burning room.
Now they have decided that it just may be better if Trump didn’t address the nation according to the Press Secretary, according to Josh Dawsey of WaPo:
I can’t see how Trump addressing the nation would help. Then again, I can’t see how having Trump at the helm would help.
I wonder who in Washington is starting to realize that they may be in over their heads.
Trump will respond – it’s inevitable. As I’ve said, he has to. He can’t look weak. This is his Gulf of Tonkin moment.
We’re at the “holy shit” stage now.
We can all agree that Donald Trump owns every life lost on both sides from this right? Like I’m assuming none of the Trumpists and Trumpists-lite on this board will claim otherwise?
Better go to Costco to get a pack of TP. There’s gonna be lots of twitterreah tonight.
Israel wants no part of this. NATO wants no part of it. Russia and China are likely to be supporting Iran, quietly or openly.
I remember when Trump gave one of his more coherent speeches prior to the election. He said “America First doesn’t mean America Alone.” It appears it does.
Although Israel already used the F-35 first, it would still mark something of an “initiation” for the USAF to use F-35s, and this might just be it - unless there has been some American F-35 mission already in Syria that wasn’t publicized.
Do we know if the missile attacks resulted in casualties?
Not yet, but our own military has said that the strikes targeted housing units on the air bases. So yes, good chance there are casualties.
Sounds like Iran claimed 30 Americans killed, and DoD is saying zero (so far). Twitter says Iraqis were killed, but haven’t seen a number.
30 killed Americans would be HUGE news by now, so it’s doubtful.
jsut wanted everyone to know that “all is well” …
He might take a hit in the polls if it turns out that American servicemen died…
Just a few minutes ago on Cuomo’s CNN show they were saying the missiles seemed to be intentionally targeted at unpopulated areas, at least unpopulated by Americans. Don’t know about Iraqi casualties.
The pundits seemed to think this was Iran’s way of retaliating without wanting to escalate further.
Really??? I hope you’re right.
Basically doing what Pakistan did with India last year, hit an open area inside a base?
Not necessarily; it depends on perceptions.