Re: Let's go Brandon!

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:47:47 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

In article <uvoo24$1lc8m$8@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
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President Joe Biden has already reportedly started to pressure Israel to
minimize their response to the unprecedented attack that it faced on Saturday
when the Islamic Republic of Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at
the country.
 
Two Israeli officials told The New York Times that Iran launched 185 one-way
suicide drones, 110 surface-to-surface missiles, and 36 cruise missiles.
 
Dana Stroul, formerly the Pentagon's top Middle East policy official who is
now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that whatever
Iran's goal was for this attack, it fell "well short of that objective".

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I've seen reports that a significant percentage of the ordnance Iran
launched at Israel malfunctioned and fell down on Iran's own people.
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You love to see it.

I would hope that wasn't the case as this was supposedly a prepared
response. Meaning that Iran wasn't using hastily thrown together
weapons to attack Israel, but weaponry they had been building up over
a long time. If this was weapons that they didn't just cobble together
over the weekend then they clearly can't go to war with Israel (even
if they had the money to do so, which they don't.)

While I'm no fan of Iran, I would hate to see innocent civilians on
either side get hurt. Even if they are being hurt by defective
weapons.