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Showing Original Post only (View all)I am Antiwar, am I alone here? [View all]
Does anyone really believe these are evacuation ships?
At least two more Navy ships carrying thousands of Marines are heading to the Israeli coast to help in any potential U.S. response to the fighting on the ground between Hamas and Israel, two Defense Department officials said Monday evening.
The USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, including up to 2,400 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, will stage in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in the event they are ordered to evacuate Americans caught in the fighting.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/16/marine-ships-israel-evacuation-00121870
I like Joe but he will be making the biggest mistake of his life if he puts US troops into this situation.
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Yes. One of their main goals was to anhilate any chance at advancement towards any kind of peace
LiberalLovinLug
Oct 2023
#178
The whole middle east problem was exacerbated when Trump abandoned the Iran treaty
jaxexpat
Oct 2023
#296
All right, more recently, what was Ukraine's peaceful way out of the Russian invasion?
EX500rider
Oct 2023
#78
The problem is I don't think it affects the people it needs to like the leaders of China and Russia
EX500rider
Oct 2023
#149
An oil embargo was one of the main reasons for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
betsuni
Oct 2023
#122
It would depend upon the person who is assaulted and what the laws in your state are.
MarineCombatEngineer
Oct 2023
#176
Indeed. It was repulsive to my father, too. He served in the battle for New
PatrickforB
Oct 2023
#283
Good point - my dad fought in the Pacific and Mom was a Rosie the Riveter.
PatrickforB
Oct 2023
#263
You made a very broad, global pronouncement, and you have refused to back it up.
ShazzieB
Oct 2023
#186
Should Lincoln have let all the Southern States secede and take all their slaves with them?
DemocratSinceBirth
Oct 2023
#258
How about we leave the combat on the battlefield (or not) and not bring it here?
hlthe2b
Oct 2023
#372
Well, you already admitted you know NOTHING about WWII (or any other major war) or history in general
hlthe2b
Oct 2023
#294
"there are always a variety of ways it could solved without the use of destruction and violence."
brooklynite
Oct 2023
#313
Exactly...the placement of the 2 aircraft carriers are there to send a message especially to Iran
PortTack
Oct 2023
#115
I am totally anti-war - there are no winners in war and we have a terrible track record since WWII.
walkingman
Oct 2023
#7
And ships sent to facilitate an evacution are not ships to facilitate an evacuation.
lapucelle
Oct 2023
#245
I heard that their presence is for intimidating Iran so that they stay out of the Israel-Hamas
Earth-shine
Oct 2023
#22
I keep asking the anti-response folks what they believe is a good reaction to being attacked...
Hekate
Oct 2023
#72
Ah well, I might have misinterpreted the repeated calls to let Putin have all of Crimea seeing as ho
Hekate
Oct 2023
#91
Probably because you joined in May 2023 and the invasion was more than a year prior...
Hekate
Oct 2023
#110
So how *do* you "feel Ukraine should conduct themselves in the face of attack " ?
Hekate
Oct 2023
#82
I'm just going to assume that your lack of an answer to my question
MarineCombatEngineer
Oct 2023
#225
I just happened onto your post to the other DUer. Why so combative/confrontational, Brenda?
hlthe2b
Oct 2023
#255
Long as you didn't get worried about the rusty artillery shell sitting by the road when you drove by
yagotme
Oct 2023
#235
Sure, WW2 had a better solution - Germany withdraws all its military from Poland
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2023
#242
And there are just as many, if not more, who disagree with the OP,
MarineCombatEngineer
Oct 2023
#87
You're framing this as if anyone who disagrees with your take must ipso facto be "pro-war."
Jedi Guy
Oct 2023
#89
I guess "Biden is going to send troops" is today's "people are saying" talking point.
lapucelle
Oct 2023
#243
Supposedly they're there to free and evacuate foreign nationals, especially USians
Warpy
Oct 2023
#232
Marines headed to Japan to assist victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
betsuni
Oct 2023
#239
"Now, I'm not a pacifist. There are times when war may be necessary." Bernie Sanders.
betsuni
Oct 2023
#240
I believe they are evacuation ships. What is your evidence for thinking otherwise?
lapucelle
Oct 2023
#244
There is the major deterrence, factor, Brenda. And that does matter right now.
hlthe2b
Oct 2023
#256