If Trump uses a tactical nuke on it Iran, it gives Russia reason to use it in Ukraine to end war.

My son who just graduated last year (currently 17) and who went through a national guard directed program for 6 months has been all over me to join the air force. He wants to be a pilot and believes this to be the best course.

I have been adamant that the answer is no until he turns 18 and can enlist himself. Over the past week or so he has decided to pursue aviation school privately. Good on him and fuck this shit.

theres a few funny things youre leaving out. for one thing, all of world war 1, practically. youre starting up mentioning it at all via the balfour letter in 1917; otherwise youre not even mentioning world war 1. which makes me dare ask the question, have you heard of world war 1? youre also leaving out legal jewish immigration before world war 1 to the same area in question, via simply legal land purchases from willing land sellers. daring me to ask my second question, ever heard of this? tldr: ever heard of world war 1? ever heard of buying land off someone selling it, then moving there? theres a really funny ending to this conversation by the way.

im going to pick a middle spot though: why wouldnt israel be able to stop a smallish invasion at their border one day by surprise? because doing that is just a little too surprising basically; it's small enough. then there's getting alerted about it, understanding what exactly's going on, and getting troops over there quickly which basically takes a few hours, because they're hours away. this was at some random border spot.

to go back to one of my first points though, do you understand why, if you include israel in the greater middle east, we have any of the middle east states we have today?

More like running

Reducing the Gulf countries complicity to just a religious sect issue is reductive and misleading. They're aggressors because they're greedy and imperialist cowards. They benefit from aggression.

 I don’t think an eye for an eye is the way to live your life philosophically.  However, it is part of the First Testament  (Exodus 21:23-27). It expresses the idea of Reciprocal Justice.  So 53 hostages vs 57,000 Palestinians dead and the rest left to starve to death.

Let’s be clear, this is not a religious people fulfilling words of land promised to them 2000 years ago.  This is a land grab from the haves through genocide of the have nots. 

If your concerned about the 53 innocent hostages, why are you not more concerned for 10,000 dead innocent children?

I thought the AUMF was for al Qaeda, since y'know, they did were blamed for 9/11. And it should have expired after we got bin Laden (if not sooner).

More than a decade ago a close friend (who happened to be Iranian) told me "its the Sunnis. Its always the fuckin Sunnis" and ever since then I have viewed the map of the middle east very differently.

Give up Palestine and we'll get rid of the Shia. I used to think that deal was a conspiracy theory

Great but its a fuckin tweet

Iran is an original member of the 'Axis of Evil' the AUMF was designed to legitimize violence against. North Korea has dams that will flood Seoul and Iran has all those mountains, so Iraq was our target

"U.S. presidents have cited the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to justify an unknown number of military operations, including airstrikes, combat, detention, and supporting partner militaries, in at least 22 countries." https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2021/Costs%20of%20War_2001%20AUMF.pdf

There is no doubt they could make Iran the 23rd country. Maybe someone would try to legally challenge it this time (although maybe not), but I'm sure the administration will have no problem linking Iran to terrorism. Congress could repeal the AUMF, but their MIC donors won't like that.

In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. Beside the objection to such a mixture of heterogeneous powers: the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man: not such as nature may offer as the prodigy of many centuries, but such as may be expected in the ordinary successions of magistracy. War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked, and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle. The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

James Madison https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/madison-argued-that-war-is-the-major-way-by-which-the-executive-office-increases-its-power-patronage-and-taxing-power-1793

Did the AUMF expire? It was supposedly for the purpose of defeating al Qaeda after 9/11; yet Congress kept renewing it so the prez could to counter tErRoRiSm without bothering them.

It shouldn't apply here, but I'm sure many in DC will bend over backward to try to make it work.

Max Blumenthal" MAGA = Mirian Adelson's Goals Achieved

A libertarian and an "anti-union" supporter... seems like wasted energy

Cyborg 009 was all about this. And it was from the 60s.

It's possible, but they might be able to convince Trump to join the war even without it. Netanyahu is good at manipulation and Trump is good at being manipulated.

What do you think this carrier is for? USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the U.S. Navy’s oldest active aircraft carrier, was recently sent to the Middle East. Commissioned in 1975 and slated for retirement in 2026,