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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Feb 6, 2017, 03:53 PM Feb 2017

Trump wants to push back against Iran, but Iran is now more powerful than ever

 BEIRUT — President Trump’s tough talk on Iran is winning him friends in the Arab world, but it also carries a significant risk of conflict with a U.S. rival that is now more powerful than at any point since the creation of the Islamic republic nearly 40 years ago.

With its warning last week that Iran is “on notice,” the Trump administration signaled a sharp departure from the policies of President Barack Obama, whose focus on pursuing a nuclear deal with Iran eclipsed historic U.S. concerns about Iranian expansionism and heralded a rare period of detente between Washington and Tehran.

Many in the region are now predicting a return to the tensions of the George W. Bush era, when U.S. and Iranian operatives fought a shadow war in Iraq, Sunni-Shiite tensions soared across the region and America’s ally Israel fought a brutal war with Iran’s ally Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Except that now the United States will be facing down a far stronger Iran, one that has taken advantage of the past six years of turmoil in the Arab world to steadily expand its reach and military capabilities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/trump-wants-to-push-back-against-iran-but-iran-is-now-more-powerful-than-ever/2017/02/05/9a7629ac-e960-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html?utm_term=.46a42cb6044e&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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Trump wants to push back against Iran, but Iran is now more powerful than ever (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2017 OP
People in our militay need to understand they will be sent to die Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
1. People in our militay need to understand they will be sent to die
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 03:57 PM
Feb 2017

in a war while rump/bannon will not consider their lost lives in the calculation, not for a second.

The loss of human life is not something they think or care about, at all.

This is not an exaggeration, so please, if you know someone in the military warn them that the CIC and his boyfriend bannon have no care, none at all, about them.

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