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@joekent16jan19, its a shame to see how your arguments are completely based on uneducated emotions (likely for personal agenda and fame). It is uneducated and emotional people like you who got us to a point where the Ayatollah-class have become this powerful. You've been too busy chasing tactical victories, but you have ZERO STRATEGIC-THINKING bone in your body ...almost certainly due to a severe lack of broad education. I can't even blame you. Your green beret has blown much smoke up your bottom that you can’t think straight. A donkey can pull a lot of weight, go long distances, and outwork a humans in physical realm. However, what makes humans special over a donkey is the power to critically think. Fold your green beret in a shelf and pick up a few objective books on strategy, war, china, Iran, Russia, and their 50-100 year goals. Read to comprehend...don't read to show off. After a bit of learning, you will come to an unmistakeable conclusion that this war, against the Ayatollah-class was necessary for our VERY OWN great union and our dear way of life. We are facing the AXIS OF POWER 2.0. Removing Iran's Ayatollah-class from this axis degrades China and Russia in every imaginable way. Israelis definitely wanted this war to protect their own children and prosperity in the long-run (like any country would), but we Americans have far more to lose in the long run. I hate war more than anyone you can ever imagine. I was born in a war and lived 21 years of my life in wars. I lost very dear friends and colleagues in war. During my teenage years, I attended over 20 funerals for my Marine brothers. The key is to NEVER weaponize our uneducated and uninformed feelings to undermine our long-term objectives. You’ve come a long way in ranks, but much less in critical thinking. We should know that we form opinions and take a side based on the information we’ve accumulated/learned through education, experience, and associations. Our brain pulls from what we've fed it over our lifetime and makes judgments based on that data. If brain is only fed two 100-page PDF from authors with similar backgrounds and biases (on a given subject), the output from the brain is also limited (sometimes diluted). The narrower the input to the brain, the less precise and comprehensive the analytical output! It all boils down to how much one knows, from what sources, what subjects are covered, and how broad that knowledge is. As an America First proponent, I've come to realize through deep reflection that regime change in Iran isn't meddling, but an essential action for our very own long-term security and the prosperity of our children—not only our interests in the Middle East but also here at home. For years, I shared the view held by many America First advocates: regime change abroad is a fool's errand. I argued we should let the Iranian people chart their own course. I thought, after all, Iran has a highly educated populace and they should determine their future themselves. I've long been wary of endless foreign entanglements that drain our blood and treasure. We Americans define Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness through our Constitution—free speech, free markets, religious pluralism, and self-determination. We will defend this at all costs, but we don't impose it on others who choose to live differently, as long as they don't threaten us (Ayatollah’s think different). If a nation chooses a theocratic system, that's their prerogative—provided it stays within their borders. We're a rational power that values coexistence. But if any regime plots to dominate, subvert, or destroy our way of life, we owe it to future generations to confront it head-on. For any nation to do so, they need to understand the equation of power. Any rational person agrees that power (Resources+Weapons) is the currency of survival in our current archaic world. To deter threats to our liberties, we must maintain overwhelming superiority in both —not allow suicidal regimes to acquire Resources+Weapons (Power). Now, Iran—a house in this global village of 193 is run by a suicidal Ayatollah-class humans—who seek and have the weapons of mass killing (Ballistics, ICBMs, seek nukes, etc). Also, they have openly been funding proxies like Hezbollah (responsible for the 1983 Beirut bombing killing 241 U.S. Marines), Hamas (behind the October 7, 2023, attack killing 1,200 Israelis and 46 Americans), and the Houthis (attacking U.S. ships in the Red Sea). The current Iran, run by the Ayatollah-class, has a history of aggression while trying to become the hegemon of the Middle East. (Their aggression has been ONGOING). For decades now, our approach was mostly “mowing the grass” in response to their provocations. We would only engage in occasional, limited operations to degrade threats without escalating too much (only against their proxies). We have been so slow, less than proportional from the enemy’s perspective, and naive in our responses that the Ayatollah-class and their proxies accepted that level of response as the status quo. They knew exactly what to expect in response to killings us. Our proportional strikes (killing a general, hitting a group, destroying a weapons depot) BECAME TOLERABLE to them, even welcome in a twisted way. But we have to ask ourselves: What’s the virtue of proportional response if the enemy already knows precisely what’s coming and it fails to deter after four decades? That’s exactly what seems we’ve finally examined and shifted away from. The Ayatollah-class got too comfortable with our restraint! The new doctrine: Make direct, indirect, and long-term threats on us and our allies SO prohibitively EXPENSIVE that the enemy either genuinely seeks PERPETUAL acceptable peace or collapses entirely. We’re in that process now. The Ayatollah-class have very clearly communicated to the rest of the world that they have the capacity to build a bomb in 24-124 HOURS if they choose to do so. Do you know what they are really saying? What they are really saying is that, "hey, assume we already possess it." It can't be more obvious. I will not be surprised if they have one. They also have tested delivery systems like hypersonic missiles. No one has any quarrels about a peaceful Iran becoming even a regional hegemon. The current Ayatollah-class is literally weaponizing the great talents of millions of smart Persians in Iran for a suicidal Shia Empire. The Ayatollah-class is hell-bent on becoming the region’s HEGEMON through Extremists SECTARIAN PROXIES, WEAPONS, and DOMINANCE. We aren’t stopping Persians (or anyone) from achieving legitimate dreams or even becoming the regional HEGEMON, but we must be genuinely afraid of living in a Middle East ruled by a HEGEMON that openly wants to “wipe off” one or another country from “the face of the earth.” It is our moral duty to ourselves and the our small world. The Ayatollah-class have demonstrated their intentions through action. What would you do? Live in a perpetual state of fear with no certainty or compel your enemy to an assured peace and/or remove them. Overlooking Iran’s nuclear ambitions (even their missile stockpiles and proxies) works against our own interests in the long run. Iran’s possession of nukes would erode our power (far more than they already are). A nuclear Iran could blackmail us while shielding its terrorism, hand nukes to proxies, or compel us to accept undesirable terms under threat of strikes on U.S. bases or allies. By then, every time we want to accomplish anything in the Middle East, we will have to suck up to an Ayatollah. A good example is our time in Afghanistan. While we were in Afghanistan, it was public knowledge that certain elements of Pakistan's military establishment were supporting the Taliban’s brutal attacks against our troops. However, we had to be extremely cautious with Pakistanis because they had nuclear weapons. Every time we wanted to do something in Pakistan's border regions to protect our very own people in the region, we had to go and stuck up to a Pakistani military officer in Rawalpindi to get their thumbs up…because they have nuclear weapons. Pakistan humiliated us and significantly contributed to the death and injury of thousands of our troops, but we couldn’t do anything about it because they have nuclear weapons. You can see how this will play out with Iran in the Middle East in the long run. Mark my words, we will have to kneel in front of an Ayatollah to get anything done in the Middle East. This way, our deterrence power will crumble. Also, MAD only works against rational actors, but Iran's regime’s current apocalyptic ideology, rooted in Twelver Shiism's messianic end-times, views mutual destruction as divine. More waiting will only strengthen them and limit our options. I know acting now doesn’t make any sense, but you have to see this issue from a very long-term perspective. You don’t want a radical house in the village that is armed with extreme destructive power….they will hold these guns to the heads of our children. Pakistan is a living example of what awaits us; during the 12-Day War, Pakistan's Minister of Defense literally warned Israel with annihilation. Iran can certainly do the very same to us in the long run. If we don’t do anything about it now, then we will have to suck it up and live by their vision…we are not suicidal and they know it. They will use this very way of life against us. The more regimes like Iran's acquire nukes or other destructive means, the weaker WE become. For a family and a person who have seen so much war, we would rather go out there and fight now—while we still have a fighting chance—than wait until later when they have more destructive weapons…because then, we likely won’t have a chance to fight them at all. x.com/MrChitChat11/s…