Originally posted by yanici: I thought it was out of line and rather stupid of him. I love the guy but sometimes his brashness is misplaced.
If Trump said that to the Japanese PM, I'd be inclined to agree. This is just some pissant reporter acting petulant. He deserved to get his pee pee wacked.
March 19, 2026, 04:56 PM
Ronin1069
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Originally posted by nhracecraft: Stupid?? Sorry dude, you're just wrong! The VAST Majority of us (somehow it's apparently not everyone though) voted for this...ALL of it!
I voted for “no more wars” and full disclosure of Epstein.
Truthfully I’m feeling pretty let down.
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March 19, 2026, 05:40 PM
wishfull thinker
I'm opposed to needless war. I see the dismemberment of states supporting terrorism as needed.
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March 19, 2026, 05:59 PM
12131
^^^^ 100% agree.
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March 19, 2026, 06:13 PM
bozman
I think this is 100% the right move with respect to Iran.
When their negotiator sits across from you and not only says "No" to giving up the enriched uranium, but states that "We have enough to make 11 bombs"... Well, then you have to do something about that if your position is that Iran will never have a nuke on your watch.
This is not a new stance by The President, this has always been his stance going back decades. If you are an informed voter, then you should have been 100% knowledgeable about where he stood on this issue. There is plenty of video out there where he has been asked questions about Iran and he has been consistent, going back to the Iran Hostage debacle.
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March 19, 2026, 06:15 PM
sigfreund
Keep in mind that the US did not start the war with Iran. They started it in 1979 and have continued it since. It is long overdue that the US treated it as such because failure to act against aggression only encourages more aggression.
Will the current military action end the war for good? Probably not, but it's possible, and very few wars settle things forever. It's enough if they settle them for a time.
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March 19, 2026, 07:12 PM
oddball
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Originally posted by Ronin1069: I voted for “no more wars” and full disclosure of Epstein.
Truthfully I’m feeling pretty let down.
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March 19, 2026, 07:15 PM
TigerDore
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Originally posted by sigfreund: Keep in mind that the US did not start the war with Iran....
Amen and well said. Ignoring the largest sponsor of terror on the planet will not make them go away, it will only give them time to get stronger. They should have been dealt with long ago.
Originally posted by sigfreund: Keep in mind that the US did not start the war with Iran....
Amen and well said. Ignoring the largest sponsor of terror on the planet will not make them go away, it will only give them time to get stronger. They should have been dealt with long ago.
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Every president since Carter has probably wanted to do something about Iran. No one had the actual balls until now.
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March 19, 2026, 07:31 PM
MikeinNC
^^ concur
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March 19, 2026, 07:37 PM
TigerDore
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Originally posted by Rawny: If Trump said that to the Japanese PM, I'd be inclined to agree. This is just some pissant reporter acting petulant. He deserved to get his pee pee wacked.
Yep. It was a rude, stupid question.
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March 19, 2026, 07:53 PM
Rey HRH
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Originally posted by yanici:
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Originally posted by Rey HRH: I had to pop into this thread just to say this:
Trump was hosting the Japanese minister in the White House today. During the press conference, a Japanese reporter asked why Trump didn't notify allies before the attack on Iran. He said the Japanese people are very confused about this.
Trump said, "We wanted to come in hard. We wanted to surprise Iran. And who knows better than Japan about surprise attacks? Why didn't you tell us about Pearl Harbor in advance?"
I thought it was out of line and rather stupid of him. I love the guy but sometimes his brashness is misplaced.
You're going to have to explain what's so stupid about it. By you saying that, you must have thoughtfully considered what he said and the context in which he said it. Please intelligently articulate what you think was stupid about it.
Also, what would you have preferred he said?
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March 19, 2026, 07:56 PM
TigerDore
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Originally posted by sandman76: Every president since Carter has probably wanted to do something about Iran. No one had the actual balls until now.
I agree. With one exception, I believe that Reagan had the balls. I can only guess that, between a complete rebuilding of the military and the Democrats' seething rage over him getting the hostages freed, delivering one of the biggest (Carter) and the biggest (Dukakis) electoral smackdowns in US history, along with his great economic turnaround, Ronaldus Magnus decided that he needed to keep his powder dry.
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March 20, 2026, 08:48 AM
pedropcola
I think President Reagan had the will and the balls to do this. I think President Trump had the will, the balls, and the military ability to carry the mission out. Back in the Reagan days he absolutely would have had to put troops in Iran to accomplish anything of meaning.
What we are witnessing here is a confluence of the will to act and military technology advances and coordination allowing it to actually be done without massive involvement of ground troops.
March 20, 2026, 09:46 AM
Fly-Sig
I believe Trump has a new philosophy, too. In the past we actively installed or attempted to install new regimes which we expected to be friendly to us. That required extensive boots on the ground, and was counterproductive in the end. We tried to win the hearts and minds of populations by waging war in their country.
Trump's approach looks to be removing hostile regimes and then leave it to the locals. If the new regime becomes hostile, Trump will remove it.
I don't think previous Presidents had Trump's mindset.
March 20, 2026, 10:06 AM
pedropcola
Respectfully you missed my point. In the Reagan era the military technology to wage air warfare on this level did not exist. Back then you sent in Wild Weasels to get SAM sites to target and shoot and then they tried to shoot the shooter. An amazingly brave and deadly form of warfare. Nothing even close to what occurred in the last month. The tech has matured to allow thousands and thousands of combat missions with ZERO loss due to the enemy.
It doesn’t matter what Reagan wanted to do. What we have seen in the nuclear bunker bombing, Maduro, and now this has never happened in the history of warfare. Never. Pick any age or era and never have the tools on one side been this overwhelming effective.
This reads like a sci fi book where modern soldiers time travel back to kill knights. And they have air support.
Reagan’s philosophy was driven by what was actually doable with the tools at hand, which inevitably led to “boots on the ground”.
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March 20, 2026, 11:12 AM
BigSwede
I'm good with it
March 20, 2026, 11:50 AM
oddball
They had a small dinner last night at the White House and all was excellent between the two. She is becoming a great ally to Trump.
And here she is in the middle of this clip, reacting to the Auto Pen portrait of Biden.
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