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The compound was a medical faciity operated by the IRGC. The school was adjacent The compound was hit, by missiles, and when further "human movement" was detected a decision was taken to strike the school. That the intelligence was old is not an excuse. It is rather confirmation that the US enthusiasm for killing disregards the basic tenets of the Laws of Armed Conflict. "The intelligence was old" is not an excuse, if the intelligence was unsure then you should not have struck the compound, especially as it was in an area inhabited by civilians. T o strike a second time because you detected human movements is savage. Imagine if the Walter Reid Military Hospital in Maryland was rocketed, and then an adjacent school was hit because "human movement was detected". Would you excuse it? Of course not, you would be shouting blue murder! I agree with @stevenl, your post is one of the worst I have seen, a callous attempt to brush away a savage and merciless crime. The US has the most advanced and technologically expert military force on the planet. Unfortunatly their targetting procedures for all that technology are sadly lacking, careless and frankly incompetent. You should be ashamed, thoroughly ashamed, of yourself for even suggesting it could be justified. And you know the real tragedy? No need for the whole bloody business at all, it is just to distract from the filthy scandal your "leader" has found his past perverted tastes have embroiled him in! Let's not beat about the bush, those children, and heaven knows how many others, have died because Trump has been caught <deleted> little girls, and this is to distract from that. Vile, inhuman, and the US military has allowed itself to be brought in on it! Shame.

Why not, they have been doing so for at least 75 years!

Plan C? The increasing unpopularity of the war leads to Trump cutting and running. Nethanayu finds himself abandoned by Trump. Loyalty in adversity is not exactly the Fragrant Leader's foremost quality, and if it serves him (Trump) Nethanayu could find himself under the Tel Aviv to Haiffa bus quicker than you can say "Bibi"! There is a General Election in Israel at the end of October. The Israeli electorate are a fairly volatile bunch, and Nethanayu's platform is that of a wartime leader. Food for thought!

"Now listen verry carefully, I shall say zis only once: my cousin Ahmed's seagull is flying south for the winter, the Kebab shop is working into the night"! 2 days later there is a loud bang and someone's new ballroom falls down!

Is that the one being led by an ageing detective with a limp, a sexy French girlfriend and a cracking vintage sports car?

But of course the point is not the war "per se". That is why there are no clear aims, known or declared strategy nor any coherent plan. The point is to create a huge deflection, a diversion, from the filthy scandals (sexual and corruption) in which this President and by extension his administration wallows...

For how long has Russia ruthlessly and deliberately targeted the Ukrainian heating and electrical infrastructure in cities during the very cold winter just passed?

What do they French know about this, it's not as if they have deployed their navy like the British have..oh..ah..umh..wait a bit... It will take a major international effort to create the conditions whereby navigation in the straits can be resumed. No point expecting the Americans to do anything, apart from having created the problem in the first place, such efforts require a sustained, coordinated, thought through approach, which is not exactly a trademark of current US defence (sorry I should have said "WAR yeehaw"!) policy. Besides Trump and Whiskey Pete are probably only interested in bombing the living daylights out of the area and it's inhabitants! The British are very clearly not in a position to do anything vaguely naval for probably several years, if ever again. The French are making tentative noises about doing something, probably with the support of other European nations. Let them crack on, we (the UK) should support them. Playing a subsidiary role in European naval affairs; a bitter pill but we have rather allowed it to happen to ourselves...

Seafood buffets eh? Shellfish? We await with baited breath reports of being able to <deleted> through the eye of a needle at 20 paces on a beautiful sunny Pattaya morning!

^^^ Yes indeed. Parliament has rejected the proposal, so introduce it through the back door! Parliament is supposed to be sovereign. If the government wishes to reopen the debate return to Parliament.

I can't help but wonder whose side Rubio is on, gobbing off like that? Mind you Whisky Pete would probably put the op order up on social media the day before it was launched! "Desert 2" anyone?

There is an awful inevitability about that paragraph. Oddball yes, bizarre even (after all it had that extraordinary fellow Lindsey Graham "onside") but certainly capable of being dreamed up by Trump and his cronies' chaotic and greed driven thought processes. But, at the end of the day, it was, is, quite simply the biggest yet deflection from the mounting evidence of his past perverted sexual behaviour, evidence which continues to trickle out like the leakage from a badly fitted nappy! Hugely expensive, ruinous to swathes of the world's economies, and claiming the lives of thousands, including the particular evil of rocketing that school. That last one, the terrible satellite photographs of the rows of graves, the awfull footage of the incoming missile, the callous way in which it has been casually dismissed by so many agencies political and military, will define Donald Trump's war, will taint the world's view of the United States for a long time to come. I for one when I hear the utterances of Trump on "American exceptionalism" patriotism, service or see the banal posturing of that drunken fool Hegseth will always see those terrible images. The Iranian theocratic regime is cruel, savage and despicable. But this war was wicked, and the man who unleashed it will be damned for it. What a foul legacy, and he has dragged the US into the filth he wallows in.

Well they tell us half of Americans don't have passports. No doubt given time a system could be set up which will allow relatively easy issue of the appropriate document, but the point is this will not be able to be achieved in time for November's mid term elections. This in turn means that those particular elections will be marked by chaotic scenes, which will have the effect of disproportionately suppressing voting amongst young, working class, first time voters. The voting classes particularly likely, in the current political circumstances, to favour the Democrats. Once the mid terms are in the bag so to speak, then on to construct a thorough system to allow "qualification gerrymandering". If they "lose" the midterms, well there will be effectively no political process open to the executive for the following two years, at best lame duck paralysis, at worst perhaps impeachment. The stakes are very high!

"With a magazine of 5 tacos, load!" "Ready!" "You will receive 5 10 second exposures of various oligarchs bearing complaints about the effects on their profits." "Watch and shoot, watch and shoot"

If we are talking about the current war in the Persian Gulf, perhaps a better title for the thread, from the US perspective, would be "We have started World War 3" - perhaps prefaced a la Britney Spears with "Oops I did it again!"

Rather more than "traditionally handled by states" - doesn't the US Constitution stipulate that elections are the responsibility of individual states and not a Federal responsibility?

Of course they were utterly unprepared. 9 days in and not one ship of the pathetic tatters we have left of a Navy has been able to put to sea. Both aircraft carriers are "in maintenance", not that it matters, we can neither crew them nor have the aircraft to fly from them. We have no effective air defence systems to be deployed on land, our medium support helicopters (Puma) were scrapped with no replacements, we don't have the troop lift capability, aircraft or ships to reinforce Cyprus and probably don't have the ammunition stocks for any sort of campaign, again not that it matters as we have hollowed out our artillery and armoured forces to the extent that the girls on horses in King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery (and jolly good they are at what they do) are probably our most effective, trained and practiced gunners! The state of our defences are inadequate and pathetic. It is through a combination of political neglect and managerial incompetence by our professional military leadership. Knighton should resign, whether it is a soldier, sailor or airman who replaces him is immaterial, but whoever it is should have some operational command experience - put bluntly, led troops, sailors or airmen in battle, or at least in high intensity training. We have tried having a professional equipment manager in charge, and our procurement systems (Ajax programme), maintenance programme (all our ships are broken) and equipment levels (hugely expensive over complicated fighter aircraft we have neither the ability nor funds to maintain, train or operate) are all down the drain. We used to joke that the army was held together with black duct tape and don 10 (field telephone wire) - we don't even have black tape or D10 anymore!

Whatever you do Vladimir, don't open the window and lean out to get some fresh air!

The various foruums dedicated to Thailand related information and discussion are clearly identified by the titles, as are those which deal with politics and current affairs: so ignore one and follow the other?

It is entirely possible to hold views on a wide variety of matters, international, domestic, home country, political and social, and to post on and discuss them. I dont see that as evidence of boredom, declining sex drive or fading hobbies. I am an active member of this forum. I have a number of hobbies, interests and occupations, which keep me busy. My sex life is my own business, and whilst it could not be described as spectacular, I do "jog along" and am in a happy relationship. Of course, perhaps the OPs evident irritation is because [eople do not neccessarily agree with him...

If you take on a dog, then you dont abandon it. To do so says a lot about you!

He asked a question, I answered it. I am sorry that you got "the hump".

300 protesters, hmm. It's been a while since I was in Cyprus, but a lot more than 300 Cypriots work in the Sovereign Base Areas, and rely, directly or indirectly, on the SBAs for their income!

So it is not just in the field of international affairs that they are weird...

I wondered how long it would be before "bombing back to the stone age" cropped up! Ironic really, given the United States current signature, almost neanderthal, approach to international affairs!