1) It happened without provocation.
2) OK, there was provocation, but since we’re the bad guys, always, in all occasions, in all times and places, we deserve it and should roll over and repeat, “Please, sir, I want some more,” until the attacks stop.
3) Yeah, admittedly, there was provocation, but when Trump takes any action, now matter how justified it would be if a Democrat did the same thing, it’s always wrong.

Obviously, the response to #1 is: “When someone attacks an embassy, it is a declaration of hostile intent, if not outright war.” The response to #2 is: “When someone attacks an embassy, it is a declaration of hostile intent, if not outright war, no matter how the two parties rate against each other on the victimhood scale.” And yes, the response to #3 is: “When someone attacks an embassy, it is a declaration of hostile intent, if not outright war, even if Trump is the president taking a retaliatory action.”

The area in which to debate is whether the parties killed in the retaliatory strike bear executive responsibility for the embassy attack.

As far as I’m concerned, Iran is a nation that only gets a provisional seat at the table of civilized nations, provisional on the government of Iran behaving like the leadership of a civilized modern nation. When the leadership is observed encouraging “Death to nations we don’t like!” and funding terrorist activity all over the ME and beyond, the rest of the world has a responsibility to put a foot down on it, not indulge it.

Somehow over time, we have allowed our general policy to be, “If you attack us, we’ll grovel on our knees to make you stop being mad enough at us to attack us.” That’s absolutely absurd. We are dealing with an unrepentant dark ages ideology which would conquer the world if it could, and when it had appropriate technology compared to the armies of Europe, it made it all the way into France. There is nothing we can do to make them like us, other than convert or die. Our policy in the ME needs to be, “We will do business with you, but if you attack us in any way, we will smack you, hard.”

But has she heard the Persians are coming for SpongeBob?
https://mobile.twitter.com/omriceren/status/1214176994885341184

Come now Speaker, where’s your humanity?

No one.

But we all do our best….

And to make this a better world, to show the true face of America’s “better half”, and to demonstrate just how upset, how utterly distraught, the Islamic Republic’s true friends really are, Nancy Pelosi feels that this is the least she can do for that poor victim (of the beast in Washington), that special human being—brutally cut off before his time—now that he’s no longer among us….

In Memoriam:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-moves-to-limit-trumps-actions-in-iran-with-war-powers-resolution-vote
Indeed, “Requiescat in pace”

Nor to what I have recently learned (from a running gag on Tony Badran’s twitter) to view as [verbatim] “lol words” — which I read or interpret thusly: *lol* [silent pause] “words”.

This expresses merely my personal view.

Of course I spent the better part of my working life in another milieu — on construction job sites — where the best and widest variety of vulgarity was issued daily: being our delight to give and take.

Yet I recognize this isn’t that; house rules, and justly, happily so.

Still, when dumb is dumb, just say so, and so on. Don’t get too fussy.

Actually, something similar crossed my mind….
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CTH posted an old video of Bill Whittle where he channels Donald Trump 4 years before the MAGA election.
The section relevant to this topic is 8:00-12:00, but all of it is worth listening to, if you still want to know why we now have President Trump.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/04/considering-everything-watch-this-again-a-president-who-believes-in-his-message/

At 14:30 he predicts the 2016 election, only missed one small point.