The_barBEARian said:whiterock said:BearFan33 said:whiterock said:The_barBEARian said:D. C. Bear said:FLBear5630 said:Doc Holliday said:My guess, and yes it’s a guess, is that there is going to be major escalation in Iran. Joe Kent isn’t some wilting flower. He wouldn’t resign over a bombing strike or two. He even supported some action being taken and was an Iran hawk. We’ll see soon enough.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) March 17, 2026
Yeah, I would say. Some idiots think these guys know and do nothing. Guy just dedicated his life to working on protecting American since 9/11. His resignation letter is linked below. You may not agree with all his politics, I don't, but he knows war and intel.
It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people believe that all Government employees do nothing of value.
Joe Kent resignation as posted to Twitter - Joe Kent - Wikipedia
In a real quagmire here, it is a mess now that it is on and finishing Iran seems only logical move, but the cost is going to be too high for little return.
The operation has lasted less than a month so far. It may be a little early to characterize it as being a "real quagmire."
Do you know which war he lost his wife in? I am wondering whether he blames Israel for us removing Saddam from Kuwait or for removing Saddam from Baghdad, or maybe it was some other war he attributes to Israel? Perhaps Afghanistan?
Trump has never done diplomacy properly.
You still support the decision to remove Saddam?
Easily the most counter-productive and destructive move by any President in my lifetime.
It did nothing to benefit America. It did, however, benefit Israel as they thrive on chaos and instability.
Yes. Saddam had to go.
He already had Chem/Bio weapons and was pursuing nuclear weapons while engaging in state sponsored terrorism (for decades) and engaging in liaison with Al Qaeda. Not one keystroke of that sentence is debatable. All of it seamlessly documented in intelligence and open source reporting. Bad. Actor.
The problem was not the policy to take out Saddam.
The problem was what to do about Iraq after Saddam was gone. We botched that hugely.
All indications on our Iran policy is that we are going to stand off and reduce the regime to rubble and let the people rise up & sort out the rebuilding themselves. That is the correct policy. We do not need to invade Iran and try to remake it as a western democracy. We just need to destroy the nuke program and have a stable regime that doesn't A) chant Death To America all-day/every-day and B) doesn't support terrorist groups who chant Death To America all-day/every-day.
It's not the use of our military to coerce better behavior from rogue regimes that gets us into trouble.
It's the nation-building that gets us into trouble.
Every. Time.
So just stop the nation-building.
(and ignore the idiotic isolationist babble. You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.)
Other than killing all current regime leaders, how do we help the rebels? I would suppose IDF is arming them somehow.
Here's your sign: Israeli drones are striking Basij checkpoints. That is de facto air support for insurgency.
Because we have air supremacy over Iranian territory, we can loiter conventional aircraft (non-stealth) anywhere in Iran 24/7. We will play whack-a-mole for a few more weeks, striking every police and Basij and military effort at crowd control. That will not just attrit those forces. it will undermine their combat effectiveness. Personnel (who are not getting paid at this time) are going to quit showing up at all. There are already indicators that such dynamics are well underway.
That is the plan. Own the skies and suppress regime security response to the point that it cannot quell civil uprising. It's not one we've tried before. Frankly, it's not one that would have worked before. But new technologies have made it possible. It will be very hard for the regime to survive this. Just keep at it......
What's the plan to pay off the national debt?
Is Greater Israel going to pay it off for us?
Ha! Oh, now you care about that?! Classic!
