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Comment by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | Hacker News Reader

The camel has taken a lot of straw in 2025 but:

> shooting down an airliner or two that gets too close to their military aircraft wouldn't make much of a difference in the long run.

Would surely break its back?

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I used to think that about so many things the Americans have been doing that I no longer have faith that there is a limit to the absurdity.

Look, I understand, but we have a concrete event here that is being discussed and there is no evidence anywhere for what you came up with. Adding feeling-based imagination instead of sticking to facts just makes the discussion much worse - and much closer to behavior you seem to object to.

This same comment could be posted verbatim on practically any past discussion about terrible things that have happened and been happening. At what point is it fair to raise or discuss the bigger problems?

Did the the camel gain a single stalk when the Vincennes crossed into Iranian territory and shot down a passenger jet?

Yes. Of course. It ended the tanker war.

Iraq and Iran had been pissant slap-fighting over oil tankers for years. The tanker war ended with the Vincennes incident.

A "straw on the camel's back" would mean the war crime earned negative domestic political repercussions.

"Ending the Tanker War" is clearly not that. It was the deployment's objective so I fear there are ghouls who would celebrate it.

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