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On the matter of it not being our fight, Iran has killed a lot of Americans including recently, so you're just wrong on that. They hide behind their proxies but it's the same thing. And it will continue as long as we let them get away with it.
General gives clearest confirmation yet that Israel will hit back but it is unclear what form response will take
Israel’s top general has said the country will respond to Iran’s missile and drone attack, but it remains unclear what form that response will take and whether it will be so forceful that it could tip a worsening spiral of violence into a full-scale regional war.
US officials said on Monday that some form of counter to Iran’s attack, which involved more than 300 missiles and drones, was almost inevitable, but the Biden administration was still hoping it would be a limited counterstrike and not aimed at Iranian territory.
The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, gave the clearest confirmation so far since the attack that Israel would strike back.
“This launch of so many missiles, cruise missiles and drones into Israeli territory will be met with a response,” Halevi said, speaking from the Nevatim air force base in southern Israel, which was lightly damaged in the attack.
...The Biden administration remained hopeful, however, that the counterstrike would not physically target anything on Iranian soil, but would take the form of a large-scale cyber-attack, or aim at an Iranian proxy or an Iranian military target, such as a drone manufacturing plant, in a third country such as Lebanon, Syria or Iraq.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
That’s a very vague statement though.
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: FlyInTheOintment
I'd take an atheistic Antifa commie over a warmonger anytime of the day...
I don't have the patience to explain all the history and nuance to people like you today.
originally posted by: Mantiss2021
An assult team might be able to damage such a facility, but damage can be repaired, and that fact renders the whole exercise futile.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
I don't have the patience to explain all the history and nuance to people like you today.
I don’t think you know the nuance or the history if you don’t see this playing out exactly like Iraq.
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
Then there is the famous interview with gen. Wesley Clark, retelling how he got informed that the US is going to take down 7 countries...