“Yeah, we lied about Saddam having WMDs…”

“No shit” — everyone else.

They’re not even trying to hide their (very obvious) lies anymore.

preemptive strike is just polspeech for “unprovoked attack”

Dear America,
I thought you elected you government in part for their promise to not get involved in any wars and foreign internal affairs. Then why are those of you who voted for them suddenly cheering this unprovoked aggression ordered by your draft dodger in order to enrich himself at your expense and sacrificing the lives of your young soldiers? Is your entire political identity based on whatever one political group lies about and cheats? If so, what you demonstrate is sycophancy, not a political identity.

Please don’t tell me that this is about liberating the Iranian protestors. Look, I dislike the Iranian regime as much as any of you, and am concerned about the ordinary people there. But your orange dictator has shown zero concerns for the protestors, despite his deceitful performance to the contrary. Guess why the Iranian regime massacred 30K of them. His onerous farce was the provocation for that. If all that wasn’t evidence enough for you, how about your killing of 51 primary school girls? I guess they were future Islamic terrorists in training?

You know as much as we do that the poor Iranian citizens celebrating your victory are actually in for something even worse. Your current regime isn’t just a warmonger like those of the past. This one consists exclusively of racists, xenophobes and every other brand of bigots, who aspire to resurrect the dreadful days of colonialism and slavery, with the added horrors of modern technology. You’re deluding yourself if you think this is about benevolence, love and freedom and not about plundering the Iranians’ wealth and natural resources for enriching the regime’s inner circle. And what do you even get in return for funding such destructive wars? Decent health care? Affordable food, rentals? Fair wages? What is wrong with you? Do you suffer from irresistible war fetish like your gun fetish? And besides all that, how are your other ‘regime changes’ turning out for you? Has a single one of your ‘freedom campaigns’ worked in yours or the victim country’s favor, much less in the interests of the world? Haven’t you learned a single lesson from the horrific tragedy you call 9/11? Are you sadists and masochists at the same time?

The rest of the nations all over the planet are worried now because your ‘peace president’ has destabilized the entire Middle East and possibly the Mediterranean. It has set events in motion that will cause a global recession. Aren’t you satisfied with ruining only your own economy? And even if Iranian regime is destroyed, the consequences of that aggression won’t be. A lot of innocent people will pay the terrible price and cycle of violence and tragedy will run its course for decades, if not centuries. Your wannabe Nobel Peace Prize laureate just lighted a fuse on a global scale powder keg. Please keep your demented megalomaniacs within your backyard. Or else somebody will lose their patience and decide to handle you along with them, and that will ultimately lead to an unimaginable apocalypse that the world vowed to avoid 80 years ago. Is that the legacy you seek? The same one that Hitler and the Nazis earned?

With love,
A citizen of the world.

My understanding: there was no imminent threat to the US or Israel. The strike was driven by opportunity, not threat. Ali Khamenei made a mistake, exposing himself by convening a meeting at his official residence in Tehran. US intelligence found out and informed Israel. Israel sent planes and hit the complex with 30 missiles within one minute, killing everyone who they could have negotiated with.

‘Sixty seconds, that’s all it took’: the clinical Israeli-US operation to kill Ali Khamenei

…and there seems to be no long-term plan.

If Iran does not crumble instantly, the 40-kilometer strait of Hormuz cannot be made safe for international oil traffic without a ground invasion of Iran. Which the US is not prepared for, and Israel is not capable of.

So, unless Iran has a revolution (very unlikely during war), Iran can threaten the energy supply of Asian countries and the income of Arab countries. The US and Israel can pound Iran from the air, but drones can be made in a well equipped garage.

In my book, that’s called a stalemate.

That was fast…

This is the road that “pre-emptive strikes” lead to, and we should have learned that lesson after 9/11.

This admin is just so incompetent it’s undeniable that’s it’s bullshit.

Saying an attack is gonna happen so you have to attack isn’t a valid reason whether it’s an individual or a country. And if you allow it, eventually someone will say that they can’t show us the proof, then they’ll stop pretending they had proof.

Midterms are the kind of the last peaceful offramp, and it might be closed.

aww they couldn’t pull off a lie as big as the Gulf of Tonkin lie, so they went with the Great Value version and just claimed it was coming anyway.