Well that says it all.To make what choice, to ignore the assassination of a top military advisor and do nothing?
You were expecting the US to ignore the attacks he's arranged against them and do nothing.To make what choice, to ignore the assassination of a top military advisor and do nothing?
Still no excuse to shoot down civilians on a commercial airliner in 2020.If Iran felt Trump ( or Pompeo) and his administration had, in their eyes, committed bad things, are they allowed to nuke him?
It is subjective. Cultures and history are a factor in all this.
Here the POTUS killed a senior foreign head of military. I still challenge Trump had the right.
Nuke him? No.If Iran felt Trump ( or Pompeo) and his administration had, in their eyes, committed bad things, are they allowed to nuke him?
You were expecting the US to ignore the attacks he's arranged against them and do nothing.
Why not now? They didn’t have collateral damage. It was a targeted assassination.I don't believe I said that or even hinted at it. Also, US intelligence services have hardly covered themselves in glory in recent times. Also, the US has had countless opportunities to take action against him. Why now?
Whataboutery and what do you mean? Bad guy and his crew killed and no one else. That's pretty good isn't it?US intelligence services have hardly covered themselves in glory in recent times.
So would you prefer he had been killed years ago?Also, the US has had countless opportunities to take action against him. Why now?
I doubt it that they did it deliberately, the flight they’ve then chosen would be so silly and stupid that it would seem a mistaken target.So you think Iran deliberately downed that aircraft?
And mostly comprising your own civilians.Still no excuse to shoot down civilians on a commercial airliner in 2020.
To be fair, the media are using the term ‘Plane crash’ to describe this in their news coverage though.Corbyn can't bring himself to say Iran shot down an aircraft. It was "a plane crash."
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By the same logic, Soleimaini died in "a car crash."
I suppose missiles were present but they weren't involved.
What is the connection between Iran and Al-Qaeda? One of the countries most associated with Al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia. They killed a journalist on their own embassy, keep a war in Yemen, fund extreme version of Islam and we call them friends. We even 'accidentally' sell them weapons even it is illegal to do so.Well I think your links are very selective. If you want to play that game then you need to go back a lot further to determine the original cause of the tensions in the middle east. How about “none of this would have happened had Al-Qaeda not attacked US soil.
You could certainly argue that the recent events would have not happened had Iran not been supporting terrorists and paramilitary groups in Iraq.
Cheers,
Nigel
I wonder what our reaction would be if Putin or the Iranian leader kills a general in the US, UK or any of our allies?
What is the connection between Iran and Al-Qaeda? One of the countries most associated with Al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia. They killed a journalist on their own embassy, keep a war in Yemen, fund extreme version of Islam and we call them friends. We even 'accidentally' sell them weapons even it is illegal to do so.
What is the connection between Iran and Al-Qaeda? One of the countries most associated with Al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia. They killed a journalist on their own embassy, keep a war in Yemen, fund extreme version of Islam and we call them friends. We even 'accidentally' sell them weapons even it is illegal to do so.
I wonder what our reaction would be if Putin or the Iranian leader kills a general in the US, UK or any of our allies?
Hardly ASAP as for a few days they were denying it.On topic: It is a dreadful thing to happen, should not have happened at all and well done to the Iranians for admitting ASAP that it was them that shot it down.
ASAP admitting? Are you serious?One of our discussions at work the other day, was how would we react if a foreign power had launched a missile attack against a non national of this country and the result of this would action be that few innocent British citizens were also killed. With the country that launched it them putting their hands up and declaring "Hey we did that"
Generally we all agree that American peace and diplomacy around the world is normally done via an attempt to destabilise a country (resulting in countless deaths, murders and mayhem) or at the end of a 500lb guided missile.
On topic: It is a dreadful thing to happen, should not have happened at all and well done to the Iranians for admitting ASAP that it was them that shot it down.