Looks like the war with Iran is cooking off

[Ninurta]

Want — Not Want — Need

For those more knowledgeable in this area than me. My motto: “Speak what you know — ignorance shows the fool”. 

QUESTION:  is there genuinely a logical need for this aggression?  And why?

Help me understand. 

Please leave personal emotions and Left/Right politics at the door.

This answer is just from my own perspective - other folks' mileage may vary.

First, to get the emotional response out of the way, for the last 47 years we have not had a US president with the testicular fortitude to get done what needed to be done. That includes Reagan, who to be fair had other irons in the fire in the 80's, and it sure as hell include Bush and Company, which may have been the single most incompetent "wartime" administration the US has ever seen. There was no sense at all in invading Iraq and taking our eye off the ball where it mattered - in Afghanistan.

I said at that time, and still maintain to today, that Bush almost single-handedly lost the Afghanistan war for us by letting it languish so he could concentrate on a  completely unnecessary war in Iraq, and that he only went into Iraq because he was butt-hurt that his daddy got his own ass handed to him there by Hussein. And yeah, I think King George Bush I got his ass handed to him in the Gulf War - he was within 8 hours of a victory when he suddenly got cold feet, tucked in his tail, and ran away. Not a win by any measure I can see. More like a completely useless waste of resources and lives, on the part of both King George Bushes, I and II.

Now that I've got that out of my system for the time being, back to the current situation in Iran.

Iran is a danger to world stability, not just "US concerns" or Israel, but world stability. It is/was actively seeking to destabilize the entire Middle East - well, really just the Sunni portions of it I guess - so that it could export it's virulent brand if Shi'ism and eradicate the Sunnis, replacing them with Shi'ites.

Now, the Sunni - Shi'ite bickering has been going on forever, ever since there have been Sunnis and Sh'ites, and would normally not be of any concern to me. It's gone on forever, and will probably continue in one form or another until hell freezes over, or until one or the other of those two schisms are gone. The problem is the way the Iranian regime has gone about it - by exporting "proxy" terrorists abroad. it's not just Hamas vs. Israel, or Hizbollah vs. both Israel and Lebanon, it's the complete world wide picture. Houthis vs. Saudi Arabia, for example. "Sleeper cells" vs. anyone who is not Islamic at all. It's Iranian interference in Iraqi affairs, and Iranian interference in Afghan affairs. It's Iran trying to foment instability wherever they can get a foothold for their proxy terrorists and intelligence services. That bodes ill for not just the Middle East, but for everyone else in the world as well.

Last night I commented that it was curious that Iran had been hitting Arab countries, and I had not yet heard at that point of an attack on Israel. I was told - by a former Moslem, and a former Shi'ite at that - that the reason for that was Iran was trying to "punish" those countries for their participation in the Abraham Accords. No mention by them of the US bases, just the Abraham Accords and "punishment" for the Sunnis over their participation.

Their entire game appears to be destabilization so they can spread Shi'ism (and of course Iranian leadership thereof) to the entire world. It's not that I'm particularly enamored of Sunnis, either, but peace would be nice, and they were working towards it - that was their crime in the eyes of the Ayatollahs and Mullahs. That was why they had to be destabilized and eventually overthrown by Shi'ites.

Based upon that philosophy alone, the world cannot afford to allow nuclear weapons to a militant Shi'ite Iran.

Then there are "humanitarian" reasons, which I suppose could be classed as "emotional". The Iranian people have lived for 47 years under the mismanagement of the Mullah Regime, and they've just about had enough of that. That's the reason for all the protests over these past several years, each of which has been violently suppressed by the regime.

Now the mismanagement has reached epic proportions. Water is running out due to mismanagement. Their economy is crashing, also due to mismanagement. When people can no longer eat or drink, they get testy, and seek a change. the regime is utterly unwilling to give them that change, so something has to give, and it would not give without outside assistance to the people there.

Cue decapitation air strikes form outside to give the Iranian People a fighting chance. Don't ask me if they appreciate it - ask an Iranian. Find out what THEY think of it.

That's just my measly 2 cents worth.

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