Interesting, if Iran plans to strike on that day. There is historical significance. Both Holy Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed on this date (Tish B'Av). The First Temple was burned by the Babylonians in 423 BCE and the Second Temple fell to the Romans in 69 CE.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
August 04, 2024, 01:08 PM
akcopnfbks
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Originally posted by parabellum: Some of you may be aware of my opinion on Iranian courage and military might and prowess. If so, you know how very little I'm concerned about yet another round of big, empty talk from these fools.
I hope that's all it is. My oldest daughter is headed to the ME with her carrier group as I type this.
_________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis
A huge rocket attack on Ain al-Assad base in Iraq wounded 'several' American soldiers on Monday, officials said, just a day after Antony Blinken made chilling predictions of an Iranian counterattack on Israel.
The base in the west of the country was targeted by two Soviet-made Katyusha rockets amid soaring tensions in the Middle East - with Iran threatening to strike Israel as early as tonight.
The rocket fire is the latest in a series of attacks targeting the base in western Iraq, which hosts American troops as well as personnel from the US-led coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group.
Israel has been braced for an Iranian assault on five fronts ‘at any moment’ in revenge following the assassination Wednesday of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tehran a day after an Israeli strike in Beirut killed Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander from the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
More at link
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August 05, 2024, 08:16 PM
sjtill
Thank you for the historical information about Tisha B'Av.
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August 05, 2024, 08:34 PM
2PAK
Curious if anyone knows, do we have one or two Carrier groups in the region?
August 05, 2024, 08:41 PM
RogueJSK
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Originally posted by 2PAK: Curious if anyone knows, do we have one or two Carrier groups in the region?
Currently, one Carrier Strike Group (USS Theodore Roosevelt and support) and one Amphibious Ready Group (USS Wasp and support).
August 05, 2024, 08:43 PM
sigmonkey
USS Theodore Roosevelt CSG is on station in the Red Sea and the USS Abraham Lincoln CSG is on the way to relieve from WESTPAC.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
August 05, 2024, 10:40 PM
old rugged cross
Wasn't that also the case a few years ago?
"Practice like you want to play in the game"
August 05, 2024, 11:23 PM
arabiancowboy
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Originally posted by old rugged cross: Wasn't that also the case a few years ago?
Al Asad has been attacked a lot because it is currently the largest consolidation of US forces in Iraq.
I took down my post because although fatalities were being reported, it wasn’t confirmed.
August 06, 2024, 09:23 AM
DennisM
I wasn't alive to see the founding of the modern state of Israel, or for the Six Day War. I was alive for, but too young to remember, the Yom Kippur War. I remember the Lebanon skirmishes in the 1980s, but was a kid and didn't really understand the dynamics.
But I read. I read, and I like history, and based on history if I had to devise a single piece of foreign-policy advice for Israel's neighbors, it would be this: Don't fuck with Israel. It never, ever ends well for the aggressor.
Iran knows this. The only hedge against Israeli retaliation for any attack is the current clownshow in our White House, who will dutifully threaten and yell and scowl at Israel on Iran's behalf and maybe discourage Israel from giving Iran a ballistic pounding that'll set Iran back to their 1930s industrial capacity.
Iran knows that their window of opportunity is THIS ADMINISTRATION. They'll attack, Israel will not go completely Sword of Gideon on them, and it'll be propaganda fodder to sustain Iran for the coming 4-8 years. Because under a Trump-Vance foreign policy, Iran will be as quiet as a freakin' hamster.
Biden and Harris make the world substantially less safe, simply by existing.
August 07, 2024, 07:32 PM
wrightd
Is there a website to track blow-by-blow military operations between Israel and its enemies in real time ? I'm not finding this in any big US based media websites (duh). I checked Times of Israel, but couldn't find any hot and live links with current, real time information. Also, the lack doesn't seem like an accident either.
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August 07, 2024, 07:38 PM
Sr_Bull
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Originally posted by wrightd: Is there a website to track blow-by-blow military operations between Israel and its enemies in real time?
I've not found any websites. I'm following several Twitter users including accounts posting in Hebrew in order to receive current, unfiltered, news reports. Otherwise, Times of Israel is about the only other decent option for daily reporting.
August 07, 2024, 11:18 PM
parabellum
Where's the all-out "Zionist-destroying" attack these Iranian badasses were supposed to unleash?
Waasa matter? Did someone steal their Nerf guns and Wiffle bats?
Buncha smack-talking clowns.
August 08, 2024, 12:32 AM
Schmelby
I don't understand it. Hamas has American hostages who are probably dead. Why aren't we carpet bombing Gaza into oblivian? How did we win WW2? If Iran doesn't like that, between the US and IDF we could stomp their ass into the ground in one day. Brute force is all they understand. If China doesn't like it too bad. How many subs do we have parked off their coast? When Iran gets a nuke Tel Aviv will be toast. I'm not a military strategist, just my two cents.
August 08, 2024, 08:40 AM
Fly-Sig
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Originally posted by Schmelby: I don't understand it. Hamas has American hostages who are probably dead. Why aren't we carpet bombing Gaza into oblivian? How did we win WW2?
The modern western media are traitors. As simple as that. In WWII, everyone had skin in the game. Everyone knew people from their home town who were overseas fighting for our survival. Everyone knew if we lost it would be horrible here for us and our families.
Today? The media are primarily political operatives in the propaganda department of the left.
My 93 yr old mother grew up in England with Nazi bombs and missiles literally landing in her neighborhood. Some of her relatives died in combat. Yet she said recently how horrible it is that Israel is intentionally harming Palestinian women and children, by targeting neighborhoods, schools, and hospitals. She sees the images every night on the BBC of these poor victims in the streets with bombed out rubble around them.
The media drives public opinion, and politicians are driven by public opinion. Behind the scenes, powerful leftists drive the media.
August 08, 2024, 12:51 PM
Ripley
^^^^^
In a world filled with heinous, destructive perps, information media are the biggest criminals. In our country, they're given special Constitutional powers and protection, making them not only the fourth branch of gov't, probably the most powerful.