Something smells REAL off about this whole story.

Not if you consider that USS Ford is being used more as a stage prop than a weapon.

rationalize his unprovoked war with Iran

The rationale is simple. To demonstrate the the United States can bomb anything, and anywhere it wants, and doesn't need a reason.

Whoever said Christianity is supposed to be a passive religion?

Here comes the daily bible study thread derailment.

Lewzer now: "We no longer 'need,' or desire, the Nato countries' assistance " WE NEVER DID!"

A dilapidated infrastructure is nobody's fault but their own.

Yep. After all those years they should have found a way around those US sanctions.

Why are you still living in California Missouri?

Maybe we shouldn't even be there

Does that idiot actually think the US produces as much oil as it consumes?

I've had a bust of Beethoven given to me when I was 8

So you're Schroeder?

I view him as a second-rate NYC real estate developer

Witkoff or Lewzer?

My current view is that PM Netanyahu is continuing this war for the sole reason to avoid having to face the court trials that await him when the war ends.

Oh, Bibi does like killing them Mohammedans.

Oh, look. It's Lumper von Clausewitz.

Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War.

A large part of that is he just doesn't care. If it all turns to ---- he'll just walk away and blame Jimmy Carter. And probably attack Cuba.

Netanyahu has a green light to bomb the ---- out of Iran now, and that's all he really wanted. He commands the most powerful military force on the planet, and he enjoys it.

Or does he just deny the information they provide because it does not substantiate his view?

He just hires people who won't give him that information. He fires anyone that tells him things he doesn't want to hear.

Now, there's a reason why we chose as one of our primary objectives to destroy the navy.

Because you're an idiot. You hardly need a navy when you can fire missiles from the beach. That home field advantage, and all that.

did Pres trump have any understanding of the tangled web he entered

As much of an understanding he has about anything else. He is neither smart, nor informed.

This is literally what Trump promised to do.

Very true, No more wars. No more world policeman. Pull up the drawbridge, flood the moat. Fortress America.

I wonder if Bibi will nominate him again this year?

Israel just announced that they still have "thousands of targets" to hit in Iran.

The team captain is also going back to Iran.

Depending on the context, yes.

How about the context where the imbecile dropping the aerial bombs say's there isn't a war?

how many mass shootings there have been in America

Is an AR-15 clone a WMD?

Ok... a handheld gunpowder bomb with some sheet metal screws stuck to it is a WMD, but a 2,000 pound aerial bomb isn't. Good to know.

no shortage of people taking issue with US/Israel's use of WMDs.

So we agree they are using WMDs in Iran. Good.

Warfare is a different context

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Yet the US and Israel are using WMDs every day on Iran and no one says anything.