Iran Situation

[Millhouse]

(01-08-2020, 02:39 PM)Dill Wrote: It's likely that most of the world thinks that Trump went way over that line of international norms the US claims to respect, followed by a pile of unintended consequences--among them the demand the US leave Iraq and direct threats to a city in Israel and the UAE.  Ambassadors and representatives of every Gulf state and Pakistan were begging the US to stand down before the strikes.

Iran had to do something in response to save face, but it also did not want to paint itself into a corner as Trump did, so it warned the Iraqis it would drop some missiles on bases housing Americans, and did.

Most of the rest of the world, certainly other Gulf nations, will see Iran as the rational actor here, the US floundering again and ready to lash out without considering second and third order policy impacts.  Trashing the Iran Deal has made the Gulf--the world's oil supply-- much more dangerous.


If this was a "win," then I and most of the rest of the world are VERY tired of winning.

We take out someone orchestrating attacks against our people & others in the region that are foes of Iran, and that is way over the line of international norms? It wasn't like he was operating out of Iran, but in Iraq in which Iran is slowly trying to take over via influence thru Shiite dominence. It was a fair play.

We struck that guy down first, they missed with a few missiles then naturally lied about it, situation back to them chanting Death to America which they have done for decades.

Trump didn't handle it well by any means, hopefully has learned a lesson on use of rhetoric (doubt it though).