Today has been a day filled with speculation, mostly focusing around the imminent “precise and surprising” strike against Iran—or not so imminent, depending on who you’re listening to.
Here is my wishful thinking. A week or so ago, JH Kunstler wrote that Bibi told the Iran lovers in the O'Biden administration that if they pull any shenanigans with the election results, that Israel will go full Samson on Iran.
"Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain refuse to allow Israel to use their airspace for attacks on Iran." Good! But does that also include flights from the U.S bases in S.A. and Qatar, and elsewhere in the gulf, too? If so that certainly seems it would throw Israel's plans into chaos. Add to that the U.S. control of aerial refueling and this could stop Israel dead in its tracks as for an "offensive" war.
That is my reaction--with heightened hopes, dissonant1!
I read an article this morning on The Duran about the big US air base in Qatar, and that it was loaded with fueled-up tankers. This is a promising development to shut Israel down before they make the first move on Iran. Of course it is my hope and prayer that Israel will QUIT IT in Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria. I'd like to see that rat Netanyahu run off with his tail between his legs and disappear into a hole. But first: stop to release American journalist Loffredo, plus all others held unlawfully.
I concur with what has been said. The only problem is Benny. To repeat what i said before, for all the reasons stated before, and to include the weather getting bad in November (which i forgot about) he has to attack.
He will /may not get another chance of all the pieces being in the right place.
But maybe we will get lucky and he will cave in. No Attack on Iran . Then with no US ground involvement , he will eventually be defeated in Lebanon. Following that, he will then probably fall from power in the next 12 months and have to take his lumps.
Unless he gets real pressure from the US, I do not see the above happening. All indicators seem to show that the US has bought into the attack and an attack is now inevitable.
What really should make people angry is the US Military is going along with this. We are supporting this insanity with material , men and money. Now we are supporting a war criminal who is under indictment from the ICC. We have physical proof that his soldiers deliberately killed civilians . That they used excessive force. That they tortured people. It is an affront to the traditional principles of western Civilization. We have., many times in our history , failed to live up to those principles, but in this case, to blatantly disregarded these principles is sickening. The Moral compass of our Military is broke. That is dangerous for any Republic.
Have all the educated men and women in the US government forgotten about Nuremberg or the "Yamashita Standard" of the Tokyo war crime trials?? Apparently so.
a quick refresher.......
You are directly responsible if the people under your command commit war crimes. You can also be guilty if you support an Allies who commits war crimes.
But do we hear any Generals or other leaders saying: "No, I am not doing this?" Nope...everything is A-ok.
These people would not know "The hard right vs the easy wrong". if it jumped up and slapped them in the face.
Those are interesting points you raise. Didn’t targeting civilians begin with William T Sherman? (Or rather John Pope in 1862, before General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, fresh from slapping McClellan, “suppressed” him at Second Manassas.) I believe Victor D Hanson has praised this as the “american way of war” - he has certainly written essays gushing at the U.S. Army’s wanton destruction and pillage in Georgia and SC (the details of which are little known and horrific; I heard many from my grandma, who heard them from hers. It was our misfortune to be in the path of the “liberators”). Isn’t Israel taking what began in the US to its logical conclusion?
I read somewhere today or yesterday that the only solution at this point is for someone to "pull the plug" on Benny (might have been right here at Mark's blog - I don't remember). How much sanity is there among Israel's leadership? The Zionists are in the ascendency both in the government and the populace - but how many of them can see their own doom in front of them?
Here is my wishful thinking. A week or so ago, JH Kunstler wrote that Bibi told the Iran lovers in the O'Biden administration that if they pull any shenanigans with the election results, that Israel will go full Samson on Iran.
"Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain refuse to allow Israel to use their airspace for attacks on Iran." Good! But does that also include flights from the U.S bases in S.A. and Qatar, and elsewhere in the gulf, too? If so that certainly seems it would throw Israel's plans into chaos. Add to that the U.S. control of aerial refueling and this could stop Israel dead in its tracks as for an "offensive" war.
That is my reaction--with heightened hopes, dissonant1!
I read an article this morning on The Duran about the big US air base in Qatar, and that it was loaded with fueled-up tankers. This is a promising development to shut Israel down before they make the first move on Iran. Of course it is my hope and prayer that Israel will QUIT IT in Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria. I'd like to see that rat Netanyahu run off with his tail between his legs and disappear into a hole. But first: stop to release American journalist Loffredo, plus all others held unlawfully.
I concur with what has been said. The only problem is Benny. To repeat what i said before, for all the reasons stated before, and to include the weather getting bad in November (which i forgot about) he has to attack.
He will /may not get another chance of all the pieces being in the right place.
But maybe we will get lucky and he will cave in. No Attack on Iran . Then with no US ground involvement , he will eventually be defeated in Lebanon. Following that, he will then probably fall from power in the next 12 months and have to take his lumps.
Unless he gets real pressure from the US, I do not see the above happening. All indicators seem to show that the US has bought into the attack and an attack is now inevitable.
What really should make people angry is the US Military is going along with this. We are supporting this insanity with material , men and money. Now we are supporting a war criminal who is under indictment from the ICC. We have physical proof that his soldiers deliberately killed civilians . That they used excessive force. That they tortured people. It is an affront to the traditional principles of western Civilization. We have., many times in our history , failed to live up to those principles, but in this case, to blatantly disregarded these principles is sickening. The Moral compass of our Military is broke. That is dangerous for any Republic.
Have all the educated men and women in the US government forgotten about Nuremberg or the "Yamashita Standard" of the Tokyo war crime trials?? Apparently so.
a quick refresher.......
You are directly responsible if the people under your command commit war crimes. You can also be guilty if you support an Allies who commits war crimes.
But do we hear any Generals or other leaders saying: "No, I am not doing this?" Nope...everything is A-ok.
These people would not know "The hard right vs the easy wrong". if it jumped up and slapped them in the face.
Those are interesting points you raise. Didn’t targeting civilians begin with William T Sherman? (Or rather John Pope in 1862, before General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, fresh from slapping McClellan, “suppressed” him at Second Manassas.) I believe Victor D Hanson has praised this as the “american way of war” - he has certainly written essays gushing at the U.S. Army’s wanton destruction and pillage in Georgia and SC (the details of which are little known and horrific; I heard many from my grandma, who heard them from hers. It was our misfortune to be in the path of the “liberators”). Isn’t Israel taking what began in the US to its logical conclusion?
I read somewhere today or yesterday that the only solution at this point is for someone to "pull the plug" on Benny (might have been right here at Mark's blog - I don't remember). How much sanity is there among Israel's leadership? The Zionists are in the ascendency both in the government and the populace - but how many of them can see their own doom in front of them?