“Curious”?
There clearly was no way out of it, but at the time the Germans did not necessarily think so. A common idea later in the war was that peace could be arranged with the western Allies and a common front made against the Russians. It wasn’t going to happen, but flights of fancy were a Nazi hobby.
The idea that a people will rise up and depose their leadership because of bombing is so abysmally stupid that I can’t even take it. It’s NEVER happened, and all evidence suggests it does the exact opposite; it makes the people being bombed just hate the external enemy more. The bombing campaign against North Korea was absolutely genocidal - the US probably killed one to two million civilians - and they still hate the USA in part because of that.
I mean, I wouldn’t trust Donald Trump if he told me his name was Donald Trump, but the US can’t hide eighty casualties; sooner or later the families get informed. They probably couldn’t hide one.
I missed the edit window, I meant bizarre/ironic.
I figured that out.
:rolleyes:
“Curious” seems to me precisely the right word, as in Alice’s “curiouser and curiouser.”
56 mourners, 82 passengers, and one terrorist general.
Of the 139 Iranians killed in the recent incidents, 138 of them were killed by Iran. If we could figure out how to keep them from killing Canadians and Ukrainians and Germans and Greeks, by the time we finish killing the Iranian general staff, half the country would be depopulated.
Regards,
Shodan
I said I missed the edit window. I didn’t mean to imply suspicion…
We’re also not allowed to delete posts for some reason.
How disgustingly ghoulish of you.
That’s enough, people.
Anything else like that and I’ll shut this down and you guys can move on to the next thing.
Which posts cause you concern?
So Iran has taken credit for shooting down the flight.
Weirdly, I think this horrible tragedy might have the unexpected effect of cooling the flames, even if only temporarily. Accidentally downing a plane from a neutral country is a huge embarrassment to Iran, and it’s hard to maintain a state righteous rage when you have egg on your face - it’s like standing up to punch someone, slipping and falling on your ass. So long as the Trump administration decides to hold its fire, I think there’s a chance things might calm down a bit.
So much for an imminent threat. Unreal. He just keeps getting worse.
They’ve hounded Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice for over seven years for not having perfect understanding of the other side’s motives five days after the Benghazi attack, but they can’t get their story straight about their OWN motives for the Suleimani assassination after 8 days and counting.
If he did ‘t have proof of a credible threat, he’s moved on to being a murderer.
Come on, guys. He was Iran’s coordinator of friendly militia units throughout the Middle East. You seriously think there aren’t a couple things in his folder they could call an imminent threat? Every President for the last 16 years could have used that excuse.
Yeah, the man was as legitimate a target as you’ll find in the Middle East. The question isn’t whether it was *right *to kill him, but whether it was smart.
I don’t know what that means, can you execute people without a trial anywhere or only the middle east?
If we had evidence of an imminent attack we should have handed it over to the Iraqi version of the fbi so they could arr st him, presented that evidence at trial, and sent him to prison. That’s how things operate for transparency’s sake. We don’t let the government execute people and then just say, “trust us.” No government should have that much power.
I mean, it’s one of the questions. Not the only question, but one of them.
Lol. Hand it over to the Iraqi version of the FBI. To arrest Iran’s #2 leader. It’s nice to have moral standards but let’s live in the real world?