You could start by offering a genuine criticism, instead of this nonsense CO.H is offering. Hint: if you are implying that your guy was doing it all right, and then the other guy came in and changed it all to be wrong, you're probably full of shit. Foreign policy doesn't work like that.
How does it work? Our foreign policy unfortunately operates on 4-8 year horizons. Pretending like we maintain consistent foreign policy across multiple administrations is ridiculous. This is particularly true in regards to Iran.
90% of it is consistent and nonpartisan. CO.H is taking minor differences in approach and pretending they represent vast ideological gulfs. A lot of you guys have been doing this since the day Obama took office. There's no longer and nuance, any depth. It's just Dems bad, Repubs good.
Okay but that's not the case with Iran. And you can point to concrete examples that I know your familiar with from the refusal to apply and enforce oil sanctions, killing Soleimani, unfreezing assets, cutting nuclear deals, that show just how far off the Obama/ Biden vision for Iran was from Trump. These are not "minor differences" like you pretend.
I never use Google. But if it's on Google it must be pretty well known. I can't count the times Google says information changing at a rapid pace and then i roll in using another search and viola a boat load of info.
And letter writing didn’t save Ernie Pyle in the Pacific Theater either.
A statement by journalists:
We condemn Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza and urge integrity in Western media coverage of Israel's atrocities against Palestinians.www.protect-journalists.com
No amount of letter writing is going to save the “journalists” who accompanied terrorists….nor should it
His attorneys probably made him add that. He wanted to hang Mike Pence, he wanted to take the weapon detectors down, ( because they weren’t there for him) and he’d been warned repeatedly about violence for days.
Right now. My daughters cheer event search engine.
Whole lot of wrong in this post. Let's eat the elephant one bite at a time.
I know that.
I don't think it’s simplistic at all. Iran pays for weapons all over the Middle East for the sole purpose of Provoking, damaging, and eventually destroying Israel. Iran is financing barbarism and there is no equivalency with Israel or the “bad people on both sides” nonsense. The most important FP objective is to stop Iran‘s receipt of funds. Trump got this and used his maximum pressure policy to limit Irans income. In addition to that, he dropped a Hellfire on the head of the individual in charge of disbursing those terror funds throughout the Middle East. Iran can’t issue bonds like us, it must convert it’s oil to cash to finance terror. . Obama and Biden don’t get that and have directly, and indirectly, provided billions of cash and oil revenue to Iran. That is a gigantic mistake.
Don’t get preachy with me, jack. Write a serious post and I’ll respond in like kind like I’ve done with manichi.
This is what he does now days. He floats around the periphery of an issue all while being snide as ****. Then he accuses you of misrepresenting his viewpoint or not understanding the issue when you try and engage him.
True or false: Stuxnet would likely have happened no matter who won the presidential election in 2008.
He is misrepresenting my viewpoint, and he's doing it in a reprehensible way.
Many observers say Trumps maximum pressure was working.
www.cfr.org
I didn’t say you were an Iranian defender. I said ( implied) you agree with Biden treating Iran like a normal negotiating partner as you wrote my strong criticism of Biden’s Iranian policies was unbelievably partisan.
Isn't true that there are many examples of terrorist organizations and insurgencies that operate military on an extremely limited budget? North Korea has become a barren wasteland from sanctions, it has the bomb, it is building ICBMs, it is supplying Russia with artillery.Many observers say Trumps maximum pressure was working.
Council on Foreighn Relations:
Did the “Maximum Pressure” Campaign Against Iran Fail?
Iran's reserves fell in 2020 to a startlingly low $4 billion, suggesting that the "maximum pressure" campaign was succeeding.
to what end did it work? 10/7? are you suggesting Iran needed any recently released money to assist Hamas? how does that explain their activity during Clinton? we clearly agree to disagree, the futility of Northern Ireland keeps coming back to me as a reference. also thinking of Paul Newman's line in Road to Perdition here: "There are only murderers in this room"Many observers say Trumps maximum pressure was working.
Council on Foreighn Relations:
Did the “Maximum Pressure” Campaign Against Iran Fail?
Iran's reserves fell in 2020 to a startlingly low $4 billion, suggesting that the "maximum pressure" campaign was succeeding.
Yep. JFK regularly consulted with Ike. Don’t know when the wheels fell off, but now presidential candidates hate each other. I think a large part of the problem is the presidents are largely driven by consultants and polling data.
Stating that Biden and Obama effectively caused 10/7 is unbelievably partisan.
No. I’m suggesting the huge revenues from oil sales to China which Biden tacitly approved was the problem. As the article noted, Iran was on the ropes, Biden backed off. As I said before, cause and effect can never be certain, but I think it’s very fair to say Biden’s blunders substantially increased the probability of October 7.
So what? I posted an argument based on historic events to support the point. You never refuted it. All you did was yell “partisanship!“.
If someone smears feces all over the wall and tries to tell me it's art, I can respond with "No, it isn't" and shouldn't have to explain why.
Just stop. Nobody forced you to respond at all. You chose to do that. You didn’t touch the merits while claiming there are no merits. I bet you think you’ve added value here. You are just wasting everybody’s time.
