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Ray Reply
Brigadier,
Clandestine. Untracable even? Brigadier, you can't be serious?! A program active since 1983 and in multiple locations?
You haven't answered my direct questions. Instead, you obliquely suggest agreement but now blame America (again) that we're pulling out the fireworks on a matter easily snuffed if done so earlier.
This is disingenuous and deflective of the salient issue before us. Like A.M. and the taliban negotiations, you foreswear any coercive leverage and rely on your oppos good will to see you through.
Airstrikes, Brigadier. Ground combat on key islands in the straits. A long-term sustained campaign to knock down the Iranian IADS, keep it down and systematically plow under all valid military targets (save the Army), IRGC/al Quds C3I, key government locations, and (obviously) all nuclear-related targets. Continue until "uncle" and IAEA unlimited inspections. Move to nat'l infrastructure if and as necessary until compliance.
Mahdi Army? We don't leave until January next year even without a U.N. extension or SOFA. Mahdi Army is DEAD if they attempt to move on our troops. So too anybody else while this is going on. Sorry should you find it upsetting to your sensibilities but the U.S. has made it clear repeatedly that we won't abide an Iranian nuclear choke-hold on the gulf.
Sooner or later that's gotta stand for something tangible. Interestingly, most of you know that we likely mean it. Let's hope that distinct possibility takes hold where nothing else of note seems.
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"This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
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