Politics Thread

[xuphan]

Mike Huckabee (US Ambassador to Israel) practices some major league suck up.

As the young generation would say, “that is cringe”.

[paulxu]

Maybe if we had not pulled out of the JCPOA, Iran would not have restarted their nuclear enrichment program, and given Israel a reason to attack.

[Xville]

Maybe if we had not pulled out of the JCPOA, Iran would not have restarted their nuclear enrichment program, and given Israel a reason to attack.

As usual, it was a comedy of errors from both administrations that led to where we are now. The unfreezing of assets namely 16 billion was also effing stupid.

Has the U.S. ever done anything in the Middle East to make things better? It’s shit hole after shit hole. Just let them blow each other up and stop trying to be the world’s police, especially in that area of the world. Nothing is ever going to get better there. They’ve been fighting for centuries

[paulxu]

We're probably close to a Bush 2003 move by Trump.
Will divert attention from domestic challenges/mistakes.