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Here’s that clip that the White House is saying doesn’t exist btw Something along the lines of “we knew Israel was going to strike first so we joined them”
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Anonymous 3w

None of this makes sense, why would we go to war with Iran when we could just release Dr Cosby into the vast desert of sand

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Anonymous 3w

1) The White House posted the clip in the first place (dumb on their part but idk who’s saying it doesn't exist) 2) This was in response to the “why now” question, for which he gave two reasons and this was just one. 3) I believe multiple times in the same speech he reiterated that this needed to happen regardless of Israeli action.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Per Reuters They are walking it back and pretending like he didn’t say it, saying they said the clip doesn’t exist was hyperbole on my part

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

It’s all theater to pretend like we aren’t playing into Israel’s foreign policy goals, the mere fact of which would mean our executive is compromised

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

No it wouldn't, two nations can have coinciding goals. Iran poses a more immediate threat to Israel sure, but they orchestrate terror plots across the globe. Not to mention everything else that's explicitly in our interest.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Attacking Iran actually INCREASES the chances for terror attacks across the globe, the FBI and CIA were telling Trump that much before we decided to attack. A war with Iran is a net negative for us and really only benefits Israel

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

In the short term, but long term a regime that doesn't fund terror decreases the risk. Iran has also proven a threat to global trade in both the Suez (through Hezbollah) and Hormuz. It weakens our adversaries, Russia and China, basically booting them from the Middle East entirely. It also helps our allies in Europe by weakening the military support Russia receives from Iran (mostly in the form of drones).

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Then there's the benefit of a better regime for the people. Even if the regime is only slightly more moderate, it really can't get worse for them than the previous regime. I'd imagine the new guys won't be gunning down their people by the thousands as much given the president we’ve set.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

precedent**

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

The only possible way for us to install a new regime would be boots on the ground, which means yet another forever war in the Middle East destroying an entire nation and creating new problems. There is no good end to this we should have just left them alone and let Israel deal with its own consequences for being a geopolitically aggressive genocidal ethnostate

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

That’s why I said slightly more moderate earlier. You don't need a total change to achieve our goals, just someone who can play ball and isn't actively trying to kill us 24/7. The Venezuela treatment works just fine. And while that wouldn't be a total win for the people, it might at least make things more bearable for them. But if they do rise up like they did in January, we wouldn't need any boots on the ground anyways. At most we'd only need to arm them.

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