Help me understand. Isn't it a good thing that Iran wasn't blown to pieces?

fhdkweig 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is, but he is weakening the credibility of the United States in the process. Never make a threat you aren't willing to back, otherwise everyone knows you make idle threats.

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fifilura 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The chicken is always the good part of the TACO. That doesn't make the whole thing great.

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WinstonSmith84 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's just another military adventure ending in a disaster - probably the most humiliating in a long long time. But to your point, it's better for the US to admit defeat now, than in 2 or 3 weeks, let alone in 2 or 3 years. If a parallel can be made, Russia would have been best advised to have done the same 3 years ago.

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ceejayoz 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes.

But it’s still bad that the US threatened a genocide this morning.

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k33n 9 hours ago | parent [-]

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ceejayoz 9 hours ago | parent [-]

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k33n 8 hours ago | parent [-]

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defrost 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As an uninvolved /newcomments reader that sees things scroll past, I didn't flag it either .. but literally anybody currently active might have.

Likely not the GP and not necessarily anybody "left".

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lovich 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[flagged]

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moralestapia 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps you should read the site guidelines, then.

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k33n 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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anigbrowl 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It only requires reading your refusal to give a straight answer, eg your deflection to a passive-voice observation of the Roman Empire's collapse while avoiding the actual question of how you characterize an explicit threat to terminate a civilization.

	▲	k33n 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The Roman civilization died. Stating that a civilization will die is not a genocidal threat. Hit flag again :)

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lovich 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sometimes a spades a spade

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loloquwowndueo 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What in anything parent said makes you think it’s not a good thing?

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fullshark 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Calling someone a chicken is seen as derogatory.

	▲	loloquwowndueo 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I too would take issue with being compared with that guy if i were a chicken.