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Two missiles apparently.

1) Wait until Trump's speech to see what the US response is. 2) You do realize that what was said by pretty much everyone in place to know was that if any Americans died Trump was ready, willing, and prepared to start what was essentially an immediate full scale war with Iran. Balance of...

That is exactly the sentiment that I am talking about (although more on SB than here) and that the talking heads are missing. Note how the crowd clapped for the guy asking the question/making the statement. There is a very large swath of the US population, especially in the Trump electorate...

The derail on nuking Japan has been moved to its own thread, this thread is about Iran. Try to stay on topic.

While he is correct about the media's coverage of this, he really has zero clue of what he is talking about in reference to the actual situation or the implications. Soleimani was far more than "some terrorist asshole" and Trump was absolutely willing to provoke a war with Iran when he...

We shall see. Hope and pray that I am incorrect, it would be very nice in this situation,

Charging into a field being shelled with chemical weapons without protection to rescue some of his men, single handedly taking out a hundred or so Iraqis who were pinning an Iranian force starting with his bare hands (having run out of ammunition in a previous battle), remaining engaged in...

This is where you are missing the cultural significance of Suleimani. Think more George Washington than Mattis. For all that he was an enemy of the US, a reprehensible human being, and a mass murdering terrorist; this is a man whose personal actions are the kind of thing that you read in Medal...

An attack even remotely proportional to the killing of Suleimani in the Iranian mind isn't a lone assassination (unless they got Trump). Sinking a carrier might be enough. That attack carried out by Iranian soldiers and publicly claimed by Iran? Trump will have absolutely no choice but to...

It's war with Iran then. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/middleeast/iran-khamenei-general-soleimani.html

While hilarious, the Secret Service would not be happy if he did that. And incidentally, this article just offends me deeply. "Suleimani, a flamboyant former construction worker and bodybuilder with snowy white hair, a dapper beard, and arching salt-and-pepper eyebrows, gained notice during...

But those actions were taken as part of the Cold War. Global communism was antithetical to the US, and with the USSR acting as its champion it was an existential threat to the US. That fact was the bedrock core of everything the US did for forty plus years. The USSR had to be defeated at...

In a great many respects it is a sunk cost. The US is already the Great Satan and is always going to remain the Great Satan. Terror attacks against the US, today, have little to nothing to do with what the US is doing in the ME now or in the recent past (since 9/11).

Declaring War is irrelevant to the use of military force by the US. What it does do is put all kinds of economic rules in place and authorize the executive to do all kinds of other things, but it doesn't alter how the President may use the US military in any way. Before the US had a standing...

The War Powers Act has major Constitutional questions hanging over its head. The President is, Constitutionally, the Commander-in-Chief of the US military and Congress has zero authority to order around US military forces. In addition, the President is sworn to protect and defend the...