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If Israel wasn't there, there would be terrorists on my doorstep? That's your actual, honest claim here?

The Ayatollah regime wants to export their version of Islam to the whole world, by any means necessary, including terrorism.

We're going to start dropping some freedom munitions on every nation that wants to export a looneytunes religious viewpoint? Physician, heal thyself...

Seriously, though. There are thousands of tin-pot dictators who would love to remake the world in their image. None of them have the ability to do so, including Iran. What makes this one special? Other than it being a very convenient target in a news cycle with some very inconvenient stories?

iranian proxies have contributed to the deaths of milllions of people including americans. syria, sudan, kuwait, libya, yemen, you think it's just looney toons you're shielded by the safety of your office chair.

then again if your username is accurate, there's no point

Ok, let's make the language more utilitarian. There are lots of bad governments in the world. What makes this bad government uniquely special? Why are we getting entangled in yet another to generational war? We're well past the point that we can cut blank checks. Our national debt is absolutely insurmountable, we're cutting social programs that will quite literally kill more of our citizens than Iran ever will.

What justifies this?

do you not understand military intelligence?

Be the cause of the terrorism, then talk of how you're the "tip of the spear" in preventing terrorism. You'd need to be special to be that kind of deluded.

With these strikes, it seems more like Israel has ample intelligence on the US government than it has on the Middle East, since even DNI concurred that there was no proof of WMDs.

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