Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele...
by crustaceansoup on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:13PM
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But at the same time, this war may have allowed IRGC to dig in. They've replaced a few people but the system may be stronger. Never mind that it doesn't even seem to be the administration's communicated goal to destroy IRGC in the first place.
On top of all that, they've threatened to reduce the entire country to the "stone age", and have started to target civilian industries.[0] If this campaign continues, how is this anything less than mass murder?
They're not doing this war for the reason you seem to want. They're not doing this to save Iranians.
[0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-shifts-to-hitting-irans...
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele...
by estearum on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:19PM
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Second order consequences can be a real sonofabitch, and history has shown that to be doubly true in the Middle East
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele...
by zzrrt on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:42AM
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How many civilian deaths as the direct result of US/Israel action do you consider acceptable to achieve killing the unelected murderers? 150 school children? Wikipedia cites hundreds more civilian deaths, but I don't know what sources to believe. How many layers of the regime's onion do we have to peel before we know we got all the murderers? How many children are we going to radicalize into future unelected murderers by murdering their family members and plunging their region into worse chaos? Should we kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out? Hegseth has crusader tattoos. Is he just another unelected theocratic murderer of a different stripe? Are we the baddies?
Re:US F-15E jet confirmed shot down over Iran as Tehran rele...
by tovej on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:42AM
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HRANA says thousands civilians dead. At least ~250 children. They are a reliable Iranian opposition source.
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-35-of-u-s-and-israeli-attacks-o...
The world is pretty small these days. Mass murderers are everyone's business. It's morally offensive to just say "well that's a long ways away, not my problem".