American Mettle

Yeah. Tanks….. the cavalry of the future. The new Maginot line. Biden is very good at staring in the rearview mirror while going forward.

I’m hoping the days in which we deploy in the name of “democracy” (such as it is here) are over….not that I don’t support valid elections.

I’m still hoping, since 1960, that we’ll grow up and stop selling tanks to anyone.

I’m surprised you would suggest deployment. There’s a lot that can be done between what is being done now, by the administration, and something so dire as committing American lives and treasure. Can we stop conferring legitimacy on this regime by stopping the kowtowing (the “supreme leader”?? for god’s sake, call him by his name, but not his title which in his world implies infallibility and permanency. Do you remember the last person whose title was “leader”? It was Hitler. No one around here politely referred to him as the “fuhrer.”), no meetings with current Iranian leadership, which would confer legitimacy on them, perhaps some kind of sanctions, but certainly stronger condemnation would be a nice start.

What everyone else said. Deployment? Military deployment? Cosmos, I hope not. Has our recent history with deployments to the middle east taught us nothing? There is not one blessed thing we could do deployment-wise that would make the situation in Iran better. I can imagine any number of (large and small) deployment efforts that would make the situation considerably worse. I’m astounded that any rational entity would even consider military deployments, but I’m especially astounded that The Bag would raise the question.

if protests aren’t enough to affect change, nation wide strikes will cripple the country. world governments should then reciprocate that move and agree to temporarily suspend all trade.* this will have an impact on the price of gas though.
reza aslan reminds us in the 1979, it took months of demonstrations before the shah was finally toppled. the question left hanging was how many months will this take?
*i doubt china would go along so it wont be a complete suspension but even this much will do a lot to bleed power and support from khamenei.
bucks are just as much, if not more, impactful as bullets. another irony to the choice of campaign color of green.

This is the most idiotic suggestion I ever read on this blog. The most reliable way to unify Iran around the old regime is military invasion by the US. People across the board in Iran *really* don’t trust America and with good reason.

And, how’d that UN sponsored embargo of Iraq work out? You might like to check in with the effects on the Iraqi people before you rip off an answer yg.

bystander, i’m aware the impact of our embargo on iraq. it wasn’t something i supported.
i was speaking hypothetically of actions that could be taken. note i suggested a temporary suspension. the idea of strikes as a posibility was floated by mousavi, iirc. i support whatever the resistance calls for. during the apartheid days of south africa, protesters themselves called for the rest of the world to boycott trade with their country.

Why do we have to “go after” anyone. Enough is enough.