Trump: about to strike Iran, or not?
The answer is “yes” – one or the other.
Here’s the NY Post on the subject, for what it’s worth:
Gen. Jack Keane — acting Army chief of staff at the start of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — told Fox News Channel that after the Islamic Republic’s latest rebuff of President Trump’s peace proposals, the US and Israel were ready to restart attacks using intelligence collected since the cease-fire went into effect April 8.
“It’ll be a combined operation with the United States and Israel going full-throttle, all-out, no half-measures here whatsoever,” Keane said on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom.”
If that’s the case, what would it look like? This war is against the regime and not the people, and so there is a limit to the number and type of targets that the US and Israel are willing to destroy.
According to Keane, the war has until now left about 30% of the slated targets remaining, and obliterating them will be the goal:
It’ll be those targets that the US and Israel wipe out next, including facilities tied to Iran’s missile and nuclear program, continued.
Along with military targets, Keane also suggested the US would take out Iran’s revenue sources, a threat Trump has repeatedly levied against Tehran.
Does he mean oil fields? I don’t know, but that’s what comes to mind.
The left and the isolationist right keep alternating between calling Trump a heinous criminal committing war crimes, and yelling “TACO” at him – which means “Trump always chickens out”. That way they’ve covered all the anti-Trump bases. It seems to me, though, that the “TACO” charge gives the Iranian regime the possibly false hope that if they wait Trump out he will never attack. It would serve them right for trusting the US MSM.
If 30% of the slated targets remain, go get ’em. Also, removing IRGC control of Iran’s coastline and oil shipment capabilities should be a goal.
Apart from my hopes for renewed destruction of the IRI and its evil stranglehold on that nation, even more do I long for the decision to take the wholly unnecessary shackles off Israel’s fight to eliminate Hezbollah in Lebanon, to quit this insane US “diplomatic” footsie with that wretched pseudo-government there, and to cease paying the toll in Israeli soldiers’ lives in Southern Lebanon. Enough, already.
… even more do I long for the decision to take the wholly unnecessary shackles off Israel’s fight to eliminate Hezbollah in Lebanon
Yes
Here we go again: https://x.com/i/status/2056454406074212682
I’ll just leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGf7_YL70M
sdferr,
I just saw that……sigh… as several right leaning commenters noted yesterday, “Stop dicking around!”
The Iranians are not serious, and after having drones lobbed at them, I don’t understand what the UAE et al are thinking.
This needs to end this week. Trump’s slowly losing my support in this.
They will not learn their lessons any other way
I’m sure Trump is hip to Iran’s tricks. I’m not privy to his timing calculations.
Not that commenters here need any help understanding Iran’s misdirection magic, but this is an excellent summary with footnotes to history.
–JNS TV and Meira K, “Oh No… The Real Motive Behind Iran’s Negotiations Isn’t What Everyone Assumes!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1sq2kjJArg
Iran: Watch us smile and negotiate, while we (re)build weapons. Time doesn’t matter to us.
Seth Cropsey in today’s WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-to-finish-the-job-in-iran-308c76c9?st=g73A1s
I like to think that Trump has a whole lot more information than I do, and that he’s playing this generally right, but I have no idea.