(03-14-2026, 05:51 AM)Kenzo1 Wrote: The source is video from pentagon , the X post are just referring to the original source , it`s verified statement from secretary of war .
It is very stupid statement , as the enemy know knows it is no rules game then, so any American prisoners if there will be is most likely equally treated , executed or worse , tortured and then killed , imagine women soldiers getting raped....
It`s not what professional army do . The red army for example raped women all the way in Germany , because the upper staff expressed it`s all fine . Things go out of hand too easely then.
As opposed to... what?
Is it your contention that fundamentalist Moslems like the Iranian Mullahs would suddenly, randomly, and spontaneously start obeying the rules of civilized warfare, after nearly 1500 years of ignoring them, but now they see a video on X and suddenly scrap the idea to become civilized? Because some guy is bloviating on a stage? all those grand plans to join the modern human race are going to get scrapped by that?
If that's the case, it just leads me back to my original premise - they've got no interest in becoming civilized. It would be a pretty weak excuse for abandoning grand plans to join civilization.
It's really a pretty sad situation. Persia had some degree of civilization for nearly as long as Mesopotamia had it, and then the Moslems invaded and took over, and those couple thousand years of civilization were thrown out the window. Then Persia - as Iran now - starts the slow climb back up to civilization, and BAM! the Ayatollah takes over again in 1979, and the whole climb was shot to hell, back to square one.
If they are eliminated, then Iran / Persia has a fighting chance to claw their way back into the modern world. If they are not eliminated, then the country stays in a stagnant doom.
It's sad to me that so many folks around the world are arguing and fighting so hard to support the murderous, authoritarian ayatollahs... who are stuck in the 7th century... and keep regular Iranians outside of the civilized world thereby.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake