U.S. And International Politics

[Richard Smith]

I doubt that. They would be taking out sites holy to Islam and would kill many fellow muslims. When the US accidentally shot down an Iranian airliner during the tanker escort operation in the 1980s, Iran dod not retaliate via terrorism. They agreed to international mediation and agreed to compensation.

Iranian nukes would likely be used as a deterrent to Israeli aggression as well as aggression from Sunni Arab states. At least they enrich their own uranium, rather than stealing it from the US and leaving a toxic mess that US taxpayers are still paying to clean up.

If Iran was the big boogyman, why did Israel sell them F-14 parts when Iran held our embassy hostage. Why did Israel agree to provide weapons to Iran during Iran-Contra?

Iran just murdered approximately 40K of its own citizens.  I'm pretty sure most of those were Muslims.  They have no regard for human life.   A throwback to ancient barbarians.  Allowing them to obtain a nuclear weapon and hoping for the best is not an acceptable plan.

[John Corbett]

Iran just murdered approximately 40K of its own citizens.  I'm pretty sure most of those were Muslims.  They have no regard for human life.   A throwback to ancient barbarians.  Allowing them to obtain a nuclear weapon and hoping for the best is not an acceptable plan.

A 5 star response.

[Tom Graves]

Question: Why did Vladimir Putin install Donald Trump (who was "spotted" by the KGB as a possible asset in Manhattan in 1980) as our president on 20 January 2017?

Answer: To get us to defeat ourselves in a Sun Tzu-kinda way.

It was the culmination of fifty-eight years of disinformation, "active measures," and mole-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations waged against us by Departments D and 14 of the First Chief Directorate (today's SVR) and the Second Chief Directorate (today's FSB), respectively.

The FCD and the SCD -- the same folks whose article in a Communist-owned Italian newspaper in March 1967 motivated overly ambitious, scandal-plagued, and revengeful Jim Garrison to change his theory against Clay Shaw from "He masterminded the homosexual thrill-kill assassination!!!" to "He organized it for the CIA!!!", which in turn let to Garrison's lie-filled book, "On the Trail of the Assassins" and Comrade Oliver Stone's self-described mythological ("to counter the myth of the Warren Report") 1991 movie, "JFK."

[John Corbett]

TDS! TDS! TDS!

[Tom Graves]

TDS! TDS! TDS!

"TDS! TDS! TDS!" -- the lame sound of a zombified-by-KGB-disinformation Trump supporter -- not unlike the hissing of a large carrion-eating possum.

You've never even heard of Sun Tzu, have you, Corbett, much less Department D in the First Chief Directorate and Department 14 in the Second Chief Directorate.