Drone shot down in international waters (IRAN)

[CS1983]

From what I got of the news this morning, after Trump found out that the Iranian body count was estimated at 150, the response wasn't proportional to an unmanned drone being shot down.

Amazingly brilliant move on his part, along with letting it out as the reason. Makes him look sane and undercuts any further Iranian aggression; if they harm or kill any US personnel it shows that the response (which would be devastating) would be in reaction to the provocation of loss of US life, which was not something the US was previously willing to do to Iran. Moreover, it's just the right thing to do.

[BushMasterBoy]

Iran will probably be invaded sooner or later due to the nuclear program they are developing. No sense in wasting assets until that time comes. I just figure Iraq was a practice for Iran. Just my take on this area at this time.

[CS1983]

Iran will probably be invaded sooner or later due to the nuclear program they are developing. No sense in wasting assets until that time comes. I just figure Iraq was a practice for Iran. Just my take on this area at this time.

Then we should learn the lesson and make friends with them. Invading Iraq was the dumbest thing we could have done.

[CS1983]

Speaking of Iran, anticipatory reprisal!

[Gman]

Iran is funding Hamas. I don't think Israel will allow Iran to be a nuclear power.

[sniper7]

I’m glad Trump stopped the attack.
However if one US citizen/soldier dies at the negligence of the country of Iran, I hope we bring everything we have and obliterate them to a world where cockroaches hardly survive. They remind me of the kid in middle school who just never got it, always running their mouth, starting fights, talked back to their parents. Every once in a while an ass whooping needs to happen to keep everyone else in the room calm.

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Then we should learn the lesson and make friends with them. Invading Iraq was the dumbest thing we could have done.

I don't know if we can.

Everything with Iran since the revolution has been all about strategic control of Hormuz. Now that crude production has shifted, I'm not sure how strategic that is, but it's where they are kicking up drama.

Many are cheering Trump's stand down but if their aggression isn't countered it will only escalate. I see people saying "one drone isn't worth Iranian lives" (150 predicted causalities). But we don't know how many will be killed next time Iran acts out. I'm also not so sure Iran is working for more Obama cash or paying back favors.

We should have settled this after Beirut.

[Bailey Guns]

Personally, I don't give a rat's ass about how many Iranian lives are lost. At all. Then again, my opinions don't need to consider strategic and other implications.

[Colorado Osprey]

... They remind me of the kid in middle school who just never got it, always running their mouth, starting fights, talked back to their parents. Every once in a while an ass whooping needs to happen to keep everyone else in the room calm.

Sadly this is how a lot of the world views the US. Always getting involved and playing bully all over the world. Many want the US to get the lesson.

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Sadly this is how a lot of the world views the US. Always getting involved and playing bully all over the world. Many want the US to get the lesson.

Yeah, they perceive it as bullying.

We "play bully" because we paid a big part of the tab from 1917 - 1945, and pretty much the whole tab since 1945.

I'd be fine with Europe running drones and monitoring shipping around Iran, dealing with any escalations, and dropping bodies. The situation is multiples more important for them (Russia) than the US.