Israel strikes Iran (Update: US Bombs Iran at #848)

That’s easy. To deter other countries from using them. They can’t be uninvented, you know.

 

It will be fun to see where Netanyahu leads his spray-painted man-boy friend next on Mideast policy.

 

Iran wants a nuclear weapon for security--so they can continue to support terrorism in the region and elsewhere and never have to pay a price for it.

 

Guessing it allows them to fund terrorists with impunity. It also provides a psychological layer of control over its own people.

 

I'm not following your logic. Are we going to attack every country with a nuclear weapon to prevent them from attacking another?

 

Entering a war in the ME doesn't stop with dropping bombs and leaving. Like Iraq, there may be trillions spent on the aftermath. Had Trump kept the nuclear agreement and enforced it along with our allies this action may have been avoided. Couple this with the 8 trillion in debt his first term and 3 to 5 trillion this round, along with trillions on a war, will have consequences for decades. Congressional approval has value to prevent rash actions.

Under Trump, we have given up on diplomacy and development, such as USAID, as part of our entire security program and that only makes us weaker to rely only on defense.

 

Depends if they chant Death to America. Death to Israel. Kills thousands of Americans over the years.

 

Trump trashes the nuclear agreement then bombs them for not negotiating on a nuclear agreement.

 

We'll see if this is true

 

CNN reporting the strike on Fodrow involved six B-2s dropping a total of 12 GBU-57 MOP bombs.

 

There’s a reason we (the world) has pursued nuclear non-proliferation. We don’t want it to be like the US with guns where everyone has them and they are used. And just like in the US, we don’t allow criminal or insane people have guns (if we can prevent it).

 

The War Powers Act of 1973 requires a President to notify Congress 48 hours before committing troops into a conflict. Trump didn't notify Congress before the bombing. He's not in compliance with the WPA.

And MAD, Mutually Assured Distruction is the best nuclear deterrent. If Iran ever dropped a nuke on Israel or the US, they'd be wiped off the map. But without a nuke, Iran can't retaliate should Israel or the US strike first.

And this now creates a Catch-22 situation for Iran. They can't stop Israel and the US from bombing because they don't have nukes, and we bomb them to prevent them from getting nukes.

 

I wonder if that was 60% of our GBU-57 stockpile as someone claimed?

 

Please don't tell me that you actually thought that Iran would nuke the US

 

Ex CIA analyst Ray McGovern

 

It requires notification “within 48 hours” of committing troops to hostilities, not 48 hours before.

And while beyond the scope of this post, the “not in compliance with the War Powers Act!” noise is a bit entertaining. Every single President since the War Powers Resolution was enacted has taken the position that multiple provisions of it are unconstitutional, there are a few provisions that Presidents don’t even try to comply with, and it ignores the distinction between “declaring war” and “waging war.”