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WSHazel
(434 posts)Every time we use our intelligence in a military operation, we show our hand about our methods. Netanyahu's attempt to wipe out Iran's senior leadership missed Khameini, so it is a failure. The foreign policy value of taking out a few generals of a floundering petro-state thousands of miles away may be very useful to Saudi Arabia, but has limited if any value to the U.S.
In other words, we gave up something incredibly valuable, broadcasting our intelligence capabilities and methods to the rest of the world intelligence community, in return for nothing.
Mountainguy
(2,101 posts)Is well within its capabilities to launch this attack.
WSHazel
(434 posts)that allowed a bunch of meth heads on paragliders to jump a fence on October 7 after some of the sloppiest operational security in the history of surprise attacks and still kill over 1,000 Israelis? Is this the Israeli intelligence you think is so brilliant?
Mountainguy
(2,101 posts)Let 19 bozos kill 4k people.
Please point to the intelligence community that has prevent 100% of attacks.
WSHazel
(434 posts)I thought that was purely a Republican tactic. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
Try harder
brush
(60,322 posts)Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)
Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)I meant the poster you replied to.
Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)As an unrelated aside, I noticed the truck in your sig. Do you by any chance play the game "American Truck Simulator"?
MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)I very rarely play video games on my computer, I really have zero desire for video games, if that's what it is.
Besides, I don't really need to play that, I do the real thing.
Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)Games are my TV or radio equivalent.
I only ask because it's a hell of a game and I play constantly. If I wasn't crippled I'd have made a career out of driving, and you've got my envy and respect. Cheers, and again, see you in the next thread. XD
WSHazel
(434 posts)Can you send me a link of where that happened? Because otherwise, what was the point of this attack? So we killed some random generals in a floundering petro dictatorship thousands of miles away. In doing so we exposed significant intelligence capabilities and tied America to a murderous semi-dictator in Israel who is openly advocating ethnic cleansing.
Please explain to me how this made our lives better.
MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)Israel just neutered Iran and showed them to be a paper tiger compared to Israel, they managed to knock off some very important figures in the regime.
And was Israel actually targeting Khamani?
I stand by my statement.
ForgedCrank
(2,712 posts)get over the level of intel and planning required, let alone the logistics. It blows my mind.
I'm not one to cheer for war and destruction, but I don't think anyone with more than a couple of brain cells could fail to realize what Iran has in mind for Israel (and the US if they can pull it off).
The unfortunate reality is that Israel can completely destroy that cesspool of evil, and it will always sprout up and grow back. The threat will be perpetual as long as that ideology survives. I just hope Iran is smart enough to not attack any US assets. I really don't want us getting dragged into this crap
Arazi
(7,981 posts)Every story coming out is more incredible than the last
It really was now or lose the moment.
Irans support triad that theyd built for decades is utterly destroyed. Traitor in office to look the other way (and provide covert support). A gleeful KSA benignly scolding (but inwardly thrilled)
Crazy
ForgedCrank
(2,712 posts)there are so many striking points, and it just keeps getting more incredible as we hear more. The entire region pretty much gave the green light for this op. Many even went so far as to crush a meager retaliatory Iranian drone strike against Israel. How so many of them knew about this and yet it remained secret for so long is just incredible. One thig is very clear though, Iran has no true friends, and Israel doesn't bluff
Arazi
(7,981 posts)I hope Egypt survives this. Theyre so fucking precarious already - they had to have been a silent partner and their people know it. Do they hate Iran or Israel more?
to take a guess, I would say that Egypt doesn't like either one much. But if they have to pick a side, the choice is pretty obvious. Only those with partisan blinders on would chastise Israel for doing this.
Arazi
(7,981 posts)Well see if they can keep the shit under control
brush
(60,322 posts)Safe guarding the oil region with US supplied weapons. And with warmonger Netanyahu, they've got a real lulu, even goes against US presidents.
MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)but Israel has severely weakened the regime and, if current reports are accurate, has also greatly destroyed Iran's nuclear program along with killing it's top scientists.
Israel bought itself, and the world for that matter, time, we'll see how long of time has been bought.
brush
(60,322 posts)or any other country would carry out a nuclear attack with all those nations so closely packed and bordering each other is kinda fatfetched. Everyone in the region would suffer fallout.
MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)but remember, we're dealing with a far different culture in the ME than the West, we tend to forget that.
Iran with a nuke would be a disaster, there is no doubt in my mind that if given the chance, Iran would launch a nuke and the aftermath be damned.
brush
(60,322 posts)Arazi
(7,981 posts)If they can destroy their enemies, everyone caught in the fallout is going to paradise.
They. Do. Not. Care. About. Civilians.
Even other fanatic regimes like KSA knew they needed to put down Irans dangerous regime cause they crazier
brush
(60,322 posts)Arazi
(7,981 posts)brush
(60,322 posts)implying their inhumanity in not even having survival instincts. Not good.
Arazi
(7,981 posts)Thats just a fact.
Their people vehemently do NOT want to die.
Dont cast aspersions here on DU. Really shitty
brush
(60,322 posts)Arazi
(7,981 posts)Feel free to put me on ignore
brush
(60,322 posts)Arazi
(7,981 posts)Irans leadership are crazy fanatics who dont care how many die.
The Iranian population is a different story and Ive made that clear.
brush
(60,322 posts)You have no insight into whether Iran's leaders have survival instincts. How do you know that?
That's just anti-Muslim talking points. Straight out of trump 1.0.
But in an earlier post you wrote: "Their people vehemently do NOT want to die."
Make up you mind. The leaders are Iranian too.
Then maybe we can talk about the real warmonger in the region, war criminal Netanyaku who keeps widening the war.
Mosby
(18,699 posts)Thats why they have no issue with firing rockets at Israeli civilians. So far at least two of the dead in Israel are Muslims.
What happens when a missle falls short and hits Haram al Sharif? Gonna blame the Israelis somehow.
You know some Iranian leaders are fleeing to Moscow, just like Assad did. Bunch of cowards.
brush
(60,322 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 15, 2025, 07:01 PM - Edit history (1)
Who also will be tried for corruption in Israel once the war is over...whenever that is.
And that's nothing but the truth. Israel deserves better.
malaise
(285,630 posts)the Palestinians and blow up schools and hospitals.
Spare me.
Mosby
(18,699 posts)Stop saying that.
EX500rider
(11,905 posts)Sinwar's demise follows the confirmed killings of other central figures who sat on what came to be known inside Hamas as the War Council.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v7p9p0rn7o
brush
(60,322 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)and that's kinda my point, for now, and hopefully long into the future, Israel has bought itself, and the world, time.
Mosby
(18,699 posts)They don't have the technology for that and it would be stupid.
What Iran would do is smuggle a nuke into Israel in a box truck or something. After the detonation they would have "plausible deniability" which would protect them from reprisal.
Easy peasy.
Thats why their nuclear program needs to be completely destroyed.
MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)it would be more like what you describe, but Israeli intelligence would, hopefully, intercept it before it reaches Israel and, IMO, if Iran did manage to smuggle one in and it detonated, Iran would cease to exist about 1 hour later.
WSHazel
(434 posts)Is your premise that Iran's leadership, which is under the constant threat of assassination, is a collection of total fucking idiots? You don't think they are aware that they are under the threat of assassination and take precautions? Walk me through how stupid you think they are.
And if your premise is accurate, and Iran is run by the stupidest people on this planet, ever in history, then why do you consider them threats? Anyone as stupid as you seem to believe is not worthy of exposing our advanced intelligence capabilities to find, at the same time on the same day, to assassinate.
Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)Let me put it to you this way, friend. If you give a toddler a nuclear weapon, would you consider them a threat? I would, because even though they might not know what they're doing, they may slap that big red button because "Button". Then millions die. All because one toddler with a button decided to play slapass. THAT is why I consider them a threat. Same as North Korea.
Except Iran AREN'T Toddlers. Toddlers, we can excuse because they don't know better. Iran's leadership, they DO know better and still have the button. Not only do they have the big red button, they've already been blowing up other places with many smaller buttons. They're a knowing, thinking, sentient, vengeful, religiously extremist toddler with the ability to vaporize millions of people in a nanosecond.
And I won't even dignify the "Exposing intelligence" argument, since 95% of the time, targets expose themselves through various forms of media.
If you don't think that's a threat, then I can't explain further.
WSHazel
(434 posts)Israel attempted to take out all of Iranian leadership, and failed. Hitting a few facilities that everyone knew were already there was not the point of this attack, it was a cover. Trump's stupid endorsement after the attack means that no country will ever trust America in a negotiation, ever again.
It appears that the Saudi's were behind this. They have the most to gain from a wipeout of Iran's military leadership and an embarrassment of the rest of the country's leadership. So for those scoring at home, the U.S. helped and authorized an attack by a hated, murderous, semi-dictator Netanyahu to help the country that attacked us on 9/11.
Nice work.
Mountainguy
(2,101 posts)You assign some purpose for a strike that you have literally no idea, much less proof, of and then say it was a failure for not meeting your made up objective.
WSHazel
(434 posts)This attack was stupid and pointless, and guarantees retaliation. And you are celebrating it.
Even Trump's State Department is smart enough to distance itself from this attack, through the WSJ article this morning. So why are you strapping yourself to Netanyahu? Please walk me through how supporting Netanyahu helps American foreign policy or progressive objectives.
Mountainguy
(2,101 posts)A Russian puppet state who's sole role has been to destabilize the entire region.
WSHazel
(434 posts)How much war would you like?
Iran is a terrible government, that is also thousands of miles away and not really a threat if just left alone. In fact, Iran has had repeated challenges to the theocracy over the years, and would have likely been overthrown from within if the U.S. had simply let sanctions run their course rather than Trumpify our foreign policy. Now, the population hates us and an internal rebellion will never happen. It sounds like you are advocating more of the stupid policies that got us to this point.
Also, the country that benefits the most from an unstable Iran is Saudi Arabia. Should Saudi interests be a guiding principle to American foreign policy?
Mosby
(18,699 posts)They are closer than ever to developing a working nuclear weapon. That's not a threat?
Why would anyone be OK with that.
WSHazel
(434 posts)Neocons made up WMDs to justify a glory seeking invasion of Iraq. Is that what we are doing now?
Mosby
(18,699 posts)Here we have over a decade of non-compliance with the United Nations IAEA and a complete disregard for international law (UNSCR 2231).
Where have you been?
Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)For the sake of argument let's say I was in Israel's shoes and I wanted to send a message to Iran. Here's my checklist.
1. Wipe out everyone beneath the head honcho and his immediate cronies. This sends the message that "You could be next".
2. Strike at strategic military sites preemptively. This sends the message of "We can neuter you when we want and where we want."
3. (And this is kind of prediction for the future so don't quote me here) Show of force using a secondary target. In this case, my bet would be somewhere in Gaza. Sort of a "Shock and Awe" moment, so Gaza should probably be preparing.
4. Direct confrontation. Steamroll Gaza, show up at Iran's door.
5. And only after ALL THAT would I consider targetting the big boss Khamenei himself.
Israel's following a pretty standard military history playbook. Kill the big man first, someone replaces him. Kill everyone around him, THEN the big boss? No one to replace him and anyone who tries knows exactly what will happen if they fuck around.
WSHazel
(434 posts)How much more? Should Israel eliminate 20% of the remaining population? 50%? 100%? What is just the right amount of murdering helpless, desperate people to get Israel's point across?
Since you are in favor of eliminating Iran too, why bother with killing a few generals? Why not just wipe that country off the map? Wouldn't that meet your objectives?
What other Middle Eastern nations do you think should be wiped off the map?
Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)The only thing I "Think" is what I was hypothetically examining from a military perspective to eliminate Iran as a threat. It's nothing more than a thought exercise. I never said anything about "Eliminating Iran", nor did I say that Gaza "Needs" anything.
If I wanted Iran as a whole "Eliminated" , I'd say so directly. I don't fuck around with mincing words and dancing around meanings.
Learn from Chris Rock and keep my words out your mouth.
WSHazel
(434 posts)Your post was:
1. Wipe out everyone beneath the head honcho and his immediate cronies. This sends the message that "You could be next".
2. Strike at strategic military sites preemptively. This sends the message of "We can neuter you when we want and where we want."
3. (And this is kind of prediction for the future so don't quote me here) Show of force using a secondary target. In this case, my bet would be somewhere in Gaza. Sort of a "Shock and Awe" moment, so Gaza should probably be preparing.
4. Direct confrontation. Steamroll Gaza, show up at Iran's door.
5. And only after ALL THAT would I consider targetting the big boss Khamenei himself.
Israel's following a pretty standard military history playbook. Kill the big man first, someone replaces him. Kill everyone around him, THEN the big boss? No one to replace him and anyone who tries knows exactly what will happen if they fuck around.
That sounds a lot more like a policy endorsement than a thought exercise.
Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)If it were a policy endorsement, it'd go much more along the lines of "I support what Israel is doing".
I do a lot of wargaming. What I detailed in that post is exactly what I do in said gaming. I NEVER strike at the main leader because that just breeds resentment. I strike at the underlings, exterminate them first. Eliminate the base of power and ensure that no one rises to replace the head honcho. That means the leader has to struggle with replacing his lost elements, and while he's doing that, I strike again at a different target while he's looking away. Repeat this process over and over until the main leader stands alone, THEN wipe him out.
His successors will have seen what happens and be cowed. Even in a multiplayer game or an MMO, this works; Psychological strategic warfare is a thing.
MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)they're very well capable of using their own intelligence, they do, after all, have the most capable intelligence service in the entire ME, especially when it comes to Iran.
sarisataka
(21,789 posts)What was revealed? The locations of Iranian nuclear research sites are not very secret.
GaYellowDawg
(4,996 posts)Iran is worse. Israel is at least a little pragmatic. Iran has a government full of foaming-at-the-mouth religious fanatics who would love to use nukes as a first-strike option. They're so deeply immersed in state-sponsored terrorism that calling Israel the rogue state in this instance is fucking ludicrous.
If I have to root for either bad or oh shit, it's the fucking apocalypse, I'm on team bad.
Hellbound Hellhound
(455 posts)milestogo
(20,970 posts)Arazi
(7,981 posts)determined to destroy anything and everything that doesnt conform to their fanaticism.
mcar
(44,774 posts)tritsofme
(19,322 posts)madaboutharry
(41,964 posts)There, I fixed it for you.
Gore1FL
(22,514 posts)Bev54
(12,566 posts)So is it, he was involved and Israel was given his full blessing or he asked them to do it and doesn't want to comment
Or did he tell them not to do it and they did it anyway and does not want to comment for fear of looking weak because Israel has gone rogue
Or he has no fucking idea whether he agreed or not because he is out of his mind and/or someone else makes the decisions not him.
malaise
(285,630 posts)That is all
sop
(14,818 posts)sarisataka
(21,789 posts)I don't recall Iran being called a "rogue state"
Just sayin'
Rob H.
(5,677 posts)stillcool
(34,320 posts)scanned all the way down and I am so dizzy.
LexVegas
(6,841 posts)WSHazel
(434 posts)The two choices are not unequivocal support for Netanyahu or being a Hamas supporter, no matter how desperately those supporting Netanyahu unequivocally want to make them the two choices.
tritsofme
(19,322 posts)Who has stated on multiple occasions that Hamas are freedom fighters and that they are just like Nelson Mandela.
sarisataka
(21,789 posts)such a comparison has been made.
onenote
(45,354 posts)egduj
(874 posts)onenote
(45,354 posts)GaYellowDawg
(4,996 posts)There are no "good guys" here, but I'll take Israel over Iran, North Korea, or Russia any day.
some_of_us_are_sane
(1,488 posts)(At least since the 2024 election)....the UNITED STATES is a 'rogue state' -
I never thought I'd see this day.
AloeVera
(3,081 posts)Decades.... Just sayin'.
Empires come, Empires go. Sometimes, Empires are run by a lunatic, especially as they are about to crumble.
Ping Tung
(2,756 posts)Should Israel and Iran abide on a UN decision? Will Trump?
Beastly Boy
(12,787 posts)That should tell you a thing or two right there.
Ping Tung
(2,756 posts)Beastly Boy
(12,787 posts)I doubt the resolution will be in favor of war.
Ping Tung
(2,756 posts)I don't think that the security council will be debating about cookie recipes when the killing is going on.
Beastly Boy
(12,787 posts)That leads to an inescapable conclusion: the resolution will be in favor of war. Got it.
PJMcK
(23,797 posts)He has directed the mass murders of tens of thousands of civilians including children. There is no end in sight to this murderous madness.

ImNotGod
(782 posts)mcar
(44,774 posts)AloeVera
(3,081 posts)Iran has a law that calls for various penalties, up to a DEATH SENTENCE. Horrible.
Many brave women are openly defying that law. Iran's government has chosen not to enforce the law - because Iran has a number of other problems and decided the last thing it needs is more international condemnation when it is trying to present a more "moderate" face to the world.
So not one woman has been "murdered" by Iran's government for defying the face covering law.
No, I am not a "mullah supporter". I'd like to see a free and democratic Iran. I'd like to see all countries free of the influence of any religion, whether it's Iran or Israel - or the U.S. now. But I am against war. So I dislike the usual talking points that are used to beat the drums of war or excuse an illegal act of war - a war that has nothing to do with defending human rights or women's freedom.
mcar
(44,774 posts)
Israels campaign in Iran is needed to give them a few weeks of shade to continue their war against Palestine. The Israelí populous wants ALL of Israel to itself, and this regime is toast if it cant deliver.. Israel has already lost most good will around the world. The regime must now produce.
AloeVera
(3,081 posts)The worst is happening in Gaza now. Israel's scam GHF "aid agency" is wildly successful. People can't go for even the paltry and cruelly useless aid for fear of getting shot by the IDF or the criminal gangs it funds and partners with.
Mass starvation under cover of darkness. Internet cut off. Then, in a few weeks, or months, mass forced displacement of the starving to the Sinai, disguised as a "humanitarian" operation.
All planned by evil men and backed by an ethno-religious and ultra-nationalist ideology as despicable and fanatic as that of the mullahs. Honestly, no self-awareness of the hypocrisy of pointing fingers evident in this thread.
Beastly Boy
(12,787 posts)Israel's war against "Palestine" is the direct consequence of Iran's decades-long sponsorship of anti-Israel terrorist proxies the region. If anything, Israel's campaign in Iran will eliminate the cause of the war to will bring it to an end.
shouldn't Israel want all of Israel to itself?
Did you mean something else?
Most countries want all of their country to themselves I believe.
Can you think of any country that doesn't?
Israel should be welcoming to all people living legally within its borders.
Beastly Boy
(12,787 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 13, 2025, 11:41 PM - Edit history (1)
But let's all laser focus on Israel. Because the rest of them are... freedom fighters?
BlueTsunami2018
(4,447 posts)None.
MarineCombatEngineer
(15,782 posts)The Iranian leadership and their minions are just benevolent "freedom fighters"?
H2O Man
(76,989 posts)GoodRaisin
(10,263 posts)Raine
(30,834 posts)H2O Man
(76,989 posts)Raine
(30,834 posts)that totally controls their peoples lives.
RandySF
(75,297 posts)Mosby
(18,699 posts)There is no other explanation for the worlds obsession with Israel and it's actions. What other country's existence is questioned? Only Israel, 77 years on. 17th oldest democracy in the world, and haters the world over want to end it.
Sick.
malaise
(285,630 posts)and anti-Zionism. That includes many of us with Jewish blood,
I repeat -Israel is a rogue state.
LexVegas
(6,841 posts)PufPuf23
(9,453 posts)Some are anti-war and anti-indiscriminate deaths of innocents.
The USA supports Israel and has given more military aid to Israel by far than any other nation. That is justification for concern in how used. Many citizens do not want to see the USA dragged into a large war.
Close to half the Jewish population on Earth live in the USA.
We define sick in a different manner.
I also support Israel and have virtually all my life because my role models, spouse and friends for nearly 70 years are Reformed Jews that loved progress and peace, those relations have lasted longer than with any of my actual family. Makes me heartsick.
The World is turning against Israel because of actions of Israel. The actions of Israel are hurting the USA and turning loose the warmongers.