They need to pay us $213,103.45 per passenger killed, without admitting any guilt or responsibility in the matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Disappointed in his reversal of decision. Iran has needed to be beat down for awhile now.
Man you’re something else. Using the fact he had restraint enough to not start a war as a political attack
Flip a coin then. I haven't trusted our government on these sorts of things since the Gulf of Tonkin.
It would surprise most people to know that almost everything the govt does has a 'public version' and a 'real version' of events. The 'public version' only gets told if people pry, you never hear the 'real version' in most cases unless there's a very good reason to tell it, or it gets leaked/told by another country.That's part of the issue here. People like to think that our government doesn't lie to us....and I mean beyond the Trump administration, but they do. They somewhat come forward with the truth when they absolutely have to, but there is a ton of things happening in the background daily that the general populous has no idea about and might take issue with. Some of it is required for national security, but the unknown is how much of it is for the self interests.
There’s a disagreement worth killing over.
I think one of two things happened
1. He took a call from Putin with instructions OR
2. He blinked, chickened out, at the last second at the thought of 150 people dying by his hand. He pissed himself a little and grew another bone spur.
Which one is worse?
If it was shot down in their airspace, nothing. We lost a drone, nobody died. Are we going to kill people over a drone? Avenging Northrop-Grumman? We're the ones escalating tensions over there, again. Hell, the reason we're pissed at Iran is that they got sick of the despot we installed and they eventually overthrew him. We then refused to return the despot to their country so they took hostages. We started this fight long ago and now we're back to do it again.
If you want to do something about it then grab your gun and head over there. "We" have caused enough problems over there, you go have some fun.
That's just more frosting on the shit cake we've been serving Iran for a long time. In a saner world we would sit down with them and settle this once and for all. Of course that would require us to admit that we were the assholes in overthrowing their democratically elected government and installing Reza Pavlavi to put the boot to their necks so our (and Britain's) oil companies could prosper at the expense of the Iranian people. Post-WWII Iran was adopting western ways and doing quite well in getting their country in order. Everything was fine until they decided to nationalize the oil industry. Decades later the murderous Shah of Iran gets sick, comes to the U.S. for treatment and Iran's government is overthrown. Think about how weak that government was that just his leaving the country was enough for it to topple. We refuse to return Shah, they take hostages. Carter has military try to rescue them and they fail. Hostages eventually returned. We blow plane out of the sky and so on...
We started this fight and we need to end it, once and for all.
Putin did say military involvement with Iran would be a stupid thing to do yesterday.
well then by all means strap on your boots and get over there and start stabbing some brownies, soldier!
Don't forget about those permenant tax cuts for the filthy rich. Trump supporters should remember that it will be them giving their lives as well as paying for this war out of their pockets while Richie Rich and his trust fund bone spurred brats get to stay in their comfy $2000 leather heated recliners watching on the news.
Does Iran regularly send drones buzzing around just outside US territorial waters?
I mean if you go half-way across the world to buzz the borders of a touchy country, sooner or later there will be either a navigational error by one side or the other, or an over-reaction. To some degree you have to accept the inevitability of that...unless the whole purpose is to find a casus belle.
Try Bay of PigsFlip a coin then. I haven't trusted our government on these sorts of things since the Gulf of Tonkin.
If it was shot down in their airspace, nothing. We lost a drone, nobody died. Are we going to kill people over a drone? Avenging Northrop-Grumman? We're the ones escalating tensions over there, again. Hell, the reason we're pissed at Iran is that they got sick of the despot we installed and they eventually overthrew him. We then refused to return the despot to their country so they took hostages. We started this fight long ago and now we're back to do it again.
If you want to do something about it then grab your gun and head over there. "We" have caused enough problems over there, you go have some fun.
Gee, I wonder why Iran may not like us
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655?wprov=sfla1
For reference, I was 7 when this happened, never heard about it until a few years ago.
Disappointed in his reversal of decision. Iran has needed to be beat down for awhile now.