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Reports have the Ayatollah Khamenei and the head of the Revolutionary Guard, one General Mohammad Pakpour, as having been killed.
The media are trotting out a number of pseudoconservatives to condemn the actions against Iran, the major names being of course Greene, Massie and Carlson.
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It's a good start. We dare not quit before the Hydra headed monster is gone completely.
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Some recent reports have the potential successor to Khamenei, and the council that was deciding on his replacement, also having been killed.
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Wasn't a fan, but to paraphrase Henry Kissinger about our "excursion" in Viet Nam - "They win if they don't lose, we lose if we don't win."
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quote:Originally posted by Ocala Mike: Wasn't a fan, but to paraphrase Henry Kissinger about our "excursion" in Viet Nam - "They win if they don't lose, we lose if we don't win."
That one is a very sore spot to me. I spent most of 1971 there in a green suit, in a construction unit. No, I did not get shot at. I was a 1LT with a platoon. Much of the time I had from 6 to 12 Vietnamese civilian laborers with me as well, along with, part of the time, a Vietnamese Army sergeant as an interpreter. It was very obvious by that time that militarily we were close to winning it, with the "fight up to a line and not one inch further" the main thing interfering with a military victory, but along with this a political surrender. As a result, for most of the guys their primary objective was to do their time and stay alive to the end of it. For many this included staying mentally out of it with drugs and booze to the greatest extent they could get away with. Oh yeah, one of the promises to the South Vietnamese as we were drawing down is that we would continue to keep their military supplied with materials and ammunition, and then we reneged on that completely due to our US politics. My summary on the whole mess is that "We pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory."
We should not quit our operation in Iran until all the current people in power have in the way of weapons are sticks and rocks.
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Seems like the major propaganda arm of the Iranian government is the US news media. As to our Western European allies, with friends like these, who needs enemies?
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