Every so often we get a reminder that calling Turnip a sociopath is not hyperbole.
All true, and I think Turnips handlers have another couple of goals - one, to justify to the base a continued expansion of "defense" spending and two, solidify support from the theocracy bloc.
They have contacted me.
Yep. And if General William Slim had acted more decisively and intelligently in 1941 we wouldn't have an Iran problem today. And if Harry Truman had not made such idiotic decisions in 1951, we wouldn't have an Iran problem today. And if Dwight D. Eisenhower had been smart enough to convince the Shah to abdicate in 1960, we wouldn't have an Iran problem today.
If funding irregular groups for asymmetrical warfare makes leadership by your definition every US president for the past 50 years was insane.
I don't need to try again. We aren't talking about how it's organized. We are talking about the ideology and outcomes.
You are confusing being rational and sane with agreeing with your beliefs. The fact you dislike their beliefs doesn't change the fact they are acting in a rational manner given their goals and capabilities.
I'm gonna read these as you just don't want to admit your full of shit. We weren't talking about ideology we are talking about rationality. Why don't you try defending your nonsense instead of running away when you got caught with you pants around your ankles intellectually.
So, it doesn't change what I said. It is one of many decision points that has led to the world situation today.
"you're" not "your"
Still decidedly not a defense for you inane assertion that Iranian leadership is insane. I get it, if I said something so materially indefensible I'd avoid embarrassing my self trying to argue its defense too but maybe you should have thought of that before saying something so self indulgently divorced from reality.
It is not “wild”. Iran knows the key card it holds is the ability to disrupt fossil fuel supply and to some extent international trade through the Red Sea. Hence the attacks on oil states and shipping off the coast of Oman. Shipping insurers are already baling out, the prices of oil and gas are rising sharply, and Maersk is re-routing via the Cape of Good Hope.
I still occasionally have to pinch myself to remember that this is the real, actual, president of the United States talking in terms of these childish lies. How the country has fallen.
It is likely that the 1973 act and any additions are unconstitutional. In the absence of a declaration of war the president is CIC and makes decisions on initiating defense and offense. The congress, however, holds the purse strings and can pass laws preventing funds from being used for such purposes.