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2020-01-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Pompeo: From now on we target Iranian decision-makers, not proxies
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Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 AMEN. Clarity, at last. After 25+ years, strategic clarity.

Seek, Punish, Destroy.

And then go back to balancing from offshore. No more land wars in Asia. No proxies. Go directly to & destroy the people who threaten US security.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-06 02:03||   2020-01-06 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I see no reason why we couldn't have a West Point graduate, seasoned strategist, and international negotiator as POTUS in 2024.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-06 02:07||   2020-01-06 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Hear, hear.
Another vote here for Pompeo 2024.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-06 02:10||   2020-01-06 02:10|| Front Page Top

#4 
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. "
George W. Bush, September 11th 2001

The Bush administration also announced a symmetrization strategy. But it never acted according to this strategy(*), not even against the Taliban.

(*) Saddam was tried by Iraq for crimes against Iraq and Iraqis.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-01-06 03:24||   2020-01-06 03:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, well, we have some evidence that the Orange man is different.
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-06 05:29||   2020-01-06 05:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Terrorist state actors no longer immune from being dusted.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-06 09:00||   2020-01-06 09:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Bush admin also parroted their stupid "all the world's people want western democracy" mantra.

Plus "Islam is the Religion of Peace" idiocy.

Plus "three cups of tea" nonsense.

Plus simultaneously going soft on Putin's Russia wrt missile defense for Poland - our ally, where we have legitimate interests - while bashing them on Chechnya and the Caucasus - their backyard, where we have zero legitimate interest.

Yes, OrangeMan + Pompeo (OM-POM) are different.

Globalism, good riddance.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-06 09:02||   2020-01-06 09:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Its the American way, from the start. That night after the battle of Breeds/Bunker Hill, the British officers' mess was notable by significant vacancies.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-06 09:37||   2020-01-06 09:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Cut off the toes,
the heads will topple.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-06 14:07||   2020-01-06 14:07|| Front Page Top

#10 #1 Seek, Punish, Destroy.


Same policy for domestic enemies.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-01-06 22:29||   2020-01-06 22:29|| Front Page Top

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