6/16/2025, Israel has been attacking Iran with airstrikes. 406 Iranians have been killed, 654 wounded and counting. Israel can't allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. I don't think American soldiers are not needed. All Israel needs is US substantial support. If Iran retaliates and bombs US bases in the region, that would be a big mistake. The Ayatollah regime would come to an end. In fact, that's what many Iranians want - to break free from their cursed Religion: https://youtube.com/shorts/7qnXOxolFVI?si=ojnIzPVHuyiSyQHC

Well then, I didn't want the US to join in, but it looks like we have now. We live in "interesting times". 6/22/25

Why did you leave so quickly, stevo? I haven't even got started and you already left the thread we were having a discussion in? I'll keep checking back.

Anyone suffering de ja vu? History of the West and Israel interfering in the middle east, to aid their own interests, including that of oil 1) In 1953, the C.I.A. helped to orchestrate a coup that ousted Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, who was viewed as a threat to Western oil interests. Known as Operation Ajax in the U.S. — British intelligence called it Operation Boot — the plot restored Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a U.S. ally during the Cold War, to power. C.I.A. backing helped the shah to maintain his grip, and the Carter administration encouraged him to implement reforms. But growing opposition to corruption and the repression of political dissent fueled a 1979 revolution, the overthrow of the shah by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the decline of American influence. 2) In 1993, just after the Afghanistan war, Mr Bin Laden was thought of as a romantic figure, a wealthy businessman who had fought Soviet forces alongside the mujahideen — the jihadist forefathers of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. In the UK paper The Independent wrote "Mr bin Laden’s own contribution to the mujahidin — and the indirect result of his training and assistance — may turn out to be a turning point in the recent history of militant fundamentalism. The mujahideen had been funded and courted by the US Government. In 1983, they even scored an invite to the Oval Office by US President Ronald Reagan. The US fanned the flames of militant jihadism a greater threat than communism. Prior to this it had laid dormant for 400 years, but revived by the help of the US in the 80s. Late terrorism expert Eqbal Ahmad warned of jihadism, and the souring of relations with bin Laden as a result of US troops being stationed in sacred Mecca — would come back to bite the US. He delivered his speech in 1998, three years before September 11. The US created US foreign policy created three Frankenstein’s monsters in Iraq: Saddam Hussein, then al-Qaeda, and IS. The US-led war in Iraq destabilised the entire Middle East, creating the extreme conditions in which militant groups like al-Qaeda spread like wildfire, eventually leading to the emergence of ISIS”. When the US was done, when it had set off the process that led to insurgencies, civil wars, the growth of extremist militias, and the collapse of state structures, it had also guaranteed the rise of something new on Planet Earth: ISIS — as well as of other extremist outfits. Was the threat of IS created when the Bush-backed Iraqi coalition authority ousted the Iraqi government, forcing 30,000 members of the military out, to which they had no employment, no income, yet they were left with access to all the same arms and weapons? Jobless, well-trained and very angry former Hussein soldiers joined the ranks of IS. Secret US Intelligence reports although heavily redacted prove either that the US ignored uncanny predictions about the rise of terrorist groups in Syria, such as IS, or entered into a secret alliance to support them against the regime against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. there was no al-Qaeda in Iraq until the US and Britain invaded, and they certainly exploited its existence against other forces, in a drive to maintain Western control. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait — have been said to have financed the terror organisation. 3) Hammas "Islamic resistance movement," founded in 1987, In Palestine uprising against Israeli occupation. The Hammas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a half blind disabled cleric, member of Muslim Brotherhood, oppressed by the Egyptians in Gazza, prior to 1967, when Israel invaded the strip, they encouraged and funded them, schools and mosques to undermine the dominant power of the Palestine political force at that time, the Nationalist PLO, at the heart Secular Fatah party, it's leader Yasser Arafat. The Israelis thought they could "divide and rule," the occupied Palestinians. Play them off, Secular against religious. Former congressman Ron Paul did say Hammas is a creature of Israel. Hammas has killed more Israelis than any Secular group, Sheik Yassin was assassinated, by Israeli air strike in Gazza. Israel spent 20 years building Hammas up, and the last 20 years, bombing, blockading and blasting them out of existence.