Thank you for sharing your perspective Mark. I also feel like the false dichotomies that we're presented with so many issues often don't represent how I feel about that issue. You're either a Republican or a Democrat and there's no in between. You're either in favor of this course of action or against it and there's no in between. It's important for the future of our nation, society, families, our own souls, and our culture that we explore options other than those presented to us by the powers that be and more closely align to our own interests and desires.
The Jeff Childers post was interesting to me because of the conversation I had about this yesterday with someone who has worked on the periphery of these issues from his post inside the Pentagon. His speculation: Trump now tells Bebe "Look. We did what you asked us to do. Their capability is significantly degraded. Now, stop the attacks because you have no longer have a proximate reason to make war." Bebe has been telling the world that Iran is weeks to months away from a bomb for decades, so how close were they really? My friend speculated that we sent the B2s because Israel had neutered Iran's air defenses to the point where this became a very low-risk mission... perhaps a once in a hundred years opportunity to send a strong message without getting any Americans killed. And yes, as Childers suggests, all carefully orchestrated backstage once the reality of Iran's defenselessness was obvious to all the players.
We won't know the truth for 50 years, but this lukewarm take seems plausible. And it fits certain patterns we've seen with Iran and Israel.
Thank you for sharing your perspective Mark. I also feel like the false dichotomies that we're presented with so many issues often don't represent how I feel about that issue. You're either a Republican or a Democrat and there's no in between. You're either in favor of this course of action or against it and there's no in between. It's important for the future of our nation, society, families, our own souls, and our culture that we explore options other than those presented to us by the powers that be and more closely align to our own interests and desires.
The Jeff Childers post was interesting to me because of the conversation I had about this yesterday with someone who has worked on the periphery of these issues from his post inside the Pentagon. His speculation: Trump now tells Bebe "Look. We did what you asked us to do. Their capability is significantly degraded. Now, stop the attacks because you have no longer have a proximate reason to make war." Bebe has been telling the world that Iran is weeks to months away from a bomb for decades, so how close were they really? My friend speculated that we sent the B2s because Israel had neutered Iran's air defenses to the point where this became a very low-risk mission... perhaps a once in a hundred years opportunity to send a strong message without getting any Americans killed. And yes, as Childers suggests, all carefully orchestrated backstage once the reality of Iran's defenselessness was obvious to all the players.
We won't know the truth for 50 years, but this lukewarm take seems plausible. And it fits certain patterns we've seen with Iran and Israel.