Iran War now? Yea or nay?

[ghost55]

Potential? He's been a target for years, however as you so acutely stated, he was a military officer of a sovereign nation. Historically, the US has not assassinated such people overtly for legal and diplomatic reasons.

Oh well, this is not an era of diplomacy or law. And there was fresh HUMINT. Oh my, did you notice the splatter pattern of shrapnel on that concrete barrier behind his burnt automobile? The Reaper made sure everyone in the vicinity was dead.

Did you ever see A Few Good Men? My fourth favorite Navy movie, after The Hunt for Red October, Top Gun, and No Way Out (not counting WWII classics).

Can you handle the truth? To truth is if we go to war with Iran, they might actually draft me. Not that they'd need to...

Yes I have seen a few good men. No they won't draft you. The don't take people with cluster-b personality disorders.

[hungryjoe]

New York Times journalist actually. I'm wasting my time here aren't I?

NYT is always unbiased. We should all fold our tents and go home. Ghost wins.

[ghost55]

NYT is always unbiased. We should all fold our tents and go home. Ghost wins.

NYT is a shite rag and has been ever since the CIA brought them to heel after they leaked the Pentagon Papers. That being said they don't actively make shit up.

[W. Rabbit]

Yes I have seen a few good men. No they won't draft you. The don't take people with cluster-b personality disorders.

Sure they do. How many drafted for WWII, Korea, or Vietnam had some sort of disorder?

Regardless, I have no documented mental health case history, but I have a certain set of skills they want, and are considering conscripting.

You can call it bootlicking. But I'm Das Boot.

Will the U.S. government draft cybersecurity professionals?
A Congressional commission might soon recommend conscription of cybersecurity professionals to serve in both the military and civil service.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/33...essionals.html

[goodlun]

Potential? He's been a target for years, however as you so acutely stated, he was a military officer of a sovereign nation. Historically, the US has not assassinated such people overtly for legal and diplomatic reasons.

Oh well, this is not an era of diplomacy or law. And there was fresh HUMINT. Oh my, did you notice the splatter pattern of shrapnel on that concrete barrier behind his burnt automobile? The Reaper made sure everyone in the vicinity was dead.

Did you ever see A Few Good Men? My fourth favorite Navy movie, after The Hunt for Red October, Top Gun, and No Way Out (not counting WWII classics).

Can you handle the truth? To truth is if we go to war with Iran, they might actually draft me. Not that they'd need to...

A lot of those 2ndary targets with him where very good clean hits to that the world is much better without.

[Dr. Gonzo]

Ghost, I don't say this to rep bitch,

but I conclude from your marking down of any comment that I make that I approve that Iranian combatant was surgically taken out,

that you don't like that I approve of his being taken out.

Separate from the enemy combatant attacking US soil issue,

As you probably remember, I teach vets, and help vets who have returned from service start new careers in technology and business to re-enter the work place and business community.

Many of them have traumatic brain injuries, some have injuries that make it difficult for them to wipe their own backside. Some are missing parts.

At some point, I usually have them make miniature Japanese gardens, and when they explain their gardens, what they say would make you weep in some cases.

Soleimani’s IED program alone caused 600 American soldiers to die, and 1,600 more American soldiers to return home missing body parts.

I am quite glad that he was killed, and that he was killed while still in the status of an enemy combatant attacking U.S. soil.

On several levels.

Nothing is ever unidimensional...

[ghost55]

At now point have I said he didn't deserve it. Quite the opposite in fact. My problem is the time and the place that we did it.

[goodlun]

At now point have I said he didn't deserve it. Quite the opposite in fact. My problem is the time and the place that we did it.

Because immediately after an attack on an embassy is the wrong time?

Would it have been better if we sent a drone into Iran to kill him?

When and where is the right time and place?

[Dr. Gonzo]

When and where is the right time and place?

When the cross hairs are right on his head or chest, adjusted for wind, distance, and elevation.

[hungryjoe]

When the cross hairs are right on his head or chest, adjusted for wind, distance, and elevation.

Close enough for government work.

It was the right time and place. Betting a lot of beers were hoisted at the news.

Something you need to understand ghost. There would have been no time acceptable to you. Not with this President. The sooner you realize that the sooner you can come to realize the weight of your bias.

[ghost55]

Aight, I'mma peace out of this thread for a few weeks. Let's see how this plays out and we'll reconvene.

[goodlun]

Aight, I'mma peace out of this thread for a few weeks. Let's see how this plays out and we'll reconvene.

So what your saying is you can't name a time or place.......
Alright Peace out.
You can come back in a month when we are still not at war and be like huh we are not at war.

[W. Rabbit]

Life in 2020 is getting interesting, my kids and wife are now so spooked, they are ahead of me on the open source news cycle.

Both kids are telling me "World War III is trending...is there gonna be a draft....what does Wag the Dog mean?". My Wife is even worried about me posting about Iran online (probably because I've been talking her ear off about the US-Iranian cyberwar for a decade and made her watch Zero Day.

So there's an unmentioned price to all this. All the oorahing aside, people are more fucking nervous than ever, the leadership is being flaky as usual, and nobody really knows what's going to happen next. Especially the kids. We're supposed to be withdrawing from all the wars...no more global policing?

One has to wonder why we couldn't have taken the Shadow Commander alive, given his value as an intelligence source. More than one way to skin a cat. What a missed opportunity, really.

As far as wanting war, we need to be careful with that thought as with North Korea..were it not for Stuxnet, Iran would be nuclear today. And they just took the last drops of piss out of the Nuclear Agreement, so get ready for a nuclear armed Iran tomorrow and watch the war hawks fly.

[Dr. Gonzo]

Life in 2020 is getting interesting, my kids and wife are now so spooked, they are ahead of me on the open source news cycle.

Both kids are telling me "World War III is trending...is there gonna be a draft....what does Wag the Dog mean?". My Wife is even worried about me posting about Iran online (probably because I've been talking her ear off about the US-Iranian cyberwar for a decade and made her watch Zero Day.

So there's an unmentioned price to all this. All the oorahing aside, people are more fucking nervous than ever, the leadership is being flaky as usual, and nobody really knows what's going to happen next. Especially the kids. We're supposed to be withdrawing from all the wars...no more global policing?

One has to wonder why we couldn't have taken the Shadow Commander alive, given his value as an intelligence source. More than one way to skin a cat. What a missed opportunity, really.

As far as wanting war, we need to be careful with that thought as with North Korea..were it not for Stuxnet, Iran would be nuclear today. And they just took the last drops of piss out of the Nuclear Agreement, so get ready for a nuclear armed Iran tomorrow and watch the war hawks fly.

Every generation has pending apocalypse fears.

Apocalypse narratives are like candy filled with sweet booze to people in both poor and developed nations.

So these fears and narratives will always exist in every generation, it's just a question of which wrapper the desired candy is dressed in.

[Bneterasedmynam]

Most of the deep state moves along just fine, there charters and mission statements largely is what guided them not the President or even that level that interacts with the president or Congress. The ship isn't without direction.

You do realize when you invoke "the deep state" you show yourself to be nothing more than a sucker of orange dicks. Like seriously it's the hillbilly calling card of late. Next you'll bring up Hillary's emails or similar mega bullshit.