Bad summary. In summary and rockets will be ineffective on that target, will probably not even hit the intended target, and any attempt to make it a sustained attack will be met with Hellfire missiles.
None, nothing , no worries.
I’ve said if this POTUS feels his financials are about to be revealed, unarguably showing his treasons, he’d wag the dog for diversion. Any Iranian response will justify escalation, then state of emergency, then martial law. This game is for keeps, folks.
I’d say I’m slightly to moderately worried. On the one hand, I live a few blocks away from the Kiryah (the Israeli version of the Pentagon) in Tel Aviv, so if the Iranians decide to lob some missiles in our direction, my apartment has a fairly good chance of getting hit. But I doubt they’ll do that. They know that if they bomb Israeli cities, we’ll bomb Iranian cities, and I don’t think they want to go that far quite yet. If they do decide to go after us, they’ll probably fire at military targets or at Israeli or Jewish targets abroad.
Still, I’m keeping one ear open for the air raid sirens. I think my son will be having a missile drill today in school, too.
I don’t usually “do” optimism, but here’s an attempt:
It might lead to (or rather, hasten) America being pushed out of Iraq, which in the long run would be a very good thing indeed for all parties involved.
That’s hardly an argument at all. Killing several thousand people and causing billions in damages in a major American city is actually a pretty good justification for a giant war. What is “stupid” is not having a clear objective of that war beyond “kill terrorists in Afghanistan”.
Starting a second giant war by invading another country that had nothing to do with the attacks is stupid
Am I allowed to be concerned about both drunk drivers *and *the Mideast?
Leaving Iraq will be a big boost to Iran’s interests. It will also make the US military’s mission in Syria much harder…
It won’t effect American security at home for awhile. But it’s inevitable that terror training camps will get established. The terrorist groups will regain lost territory in Syria. The US homeland will always be a priority target.
I would imagine it 2would be war, and sadly it would be justified. Soleimani, at least, was a soldier. However much Eric Trump might be a detestable little turd, killing a civilian for the “offense” of being related to a head of state is taking this to an entirely new level.
A proportionate response would be the killing of a U.S. general, in Iraq, who was an active party in violence there.
I’m glad to hear you don’t patronize Trump hotels (or any other entity so branded).
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I hadn’t considered the Trump resorts and hotels. They would be considered soft targets. Easy pickings with a lot of casualties.
They can’t all be quickly secured before something happens.
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Plus it would hit him in the pocketbook. A win-win for Iran.
By Iran, you mean, to strike against the American homeland? I wouldn’t be so sure. They’d have very little to gain.
What terrorist groups? If you’re talking about the Sunni jihadist groups involved in Syria’s civil war, the tide has already turned against them. An American departure wouldn’t change that.
For the aforementioned Sunni jihadists, maybe so. For Iran and their friends? Again, I wouldn’t be so sure. They have bigger priorities, and bigger plans.
Why ever would I? I played one round of golf on a Trump property once (not my choice). It looked like what I imagine a colorblind Albanian pimp’s idea of “luxurious” might look like. Assuming this is some sort of design philosophy, I felt no need to ever visit any other Trump-branded property.
But for those less easily aesthetically offended, who do patronize such, I can imagine them making alternate choices. More so in abroad Trump places than US ones.
Disguise yourself as a Russian and you can walk right in.
Though with the Iraqi parliament already clamoring for the US military to leave the country, it seems equally likely that we’ll be evacuating the embassy via helicopter a-la Khe Sanh.
If the Iraqi government asks us to leave, and we don’t leave, and we’re firing Hellfire missiles, now we’re officially a hostile military operating in Iraq again. At war, in other words. Firing into densely populated areas, per your post.
- 3000 killed on 9/11 vs. > 10,000 DUI deaths each & every year since 9/11. I’m much more afraid driving home after the Super Bowl.
Pardon the nitpick, but I think you mean Saigon - the hold on, we’re gone Saigon (which I don’t dispute was another great win for the US, its military, and its prestige in the world).
Iraqi Parliament votes to expel all foreign troops.
Imho we need to pull out by Jan 30. Leave them to their fate. It’ll erupt into full civil war by the end of the year. The Islamic State,ISIL grabbed Iraqi territory not long after Obama pulled out most of the troops. It required almost two years of heavy fighting for Iraqi and US troops to defeat ISIL.
It’s not our concern anymore. I wish we could get out of there within 7 days.