This is how you see the global economy slide into a proverbial nuclear winter. Gramps is easy enough to persuade when it comes to sending off other people's children to die.

Just let the man have a symbolic win already. He is trying. "It's complete." "We already won."

small nations in the region. Is it possible that they could form a coalition to fight back against Iran? Or, since they are rich, could they chip in for the costs of US weapons replacements? Or buy their own drones?

That's how they've been intercepting all those missiles and drones.

It's not a population that supports their Authoritarian rulers... they're oppressed.

How'd that work out in Afghanistan?

Total air superiority. No fight there at all.

Oppressed people.

Remind me about the big win there.

For that matter, what part of Iraq was safe for an American outside the Green Zone?

And being an enemy of an enemy does not foreclose the former categorization. Not by a long shot.

and with a craven idiot like Mr. trump in charge, vastly reduces any remaining chance of accidental success in achieving the undefined and unknown goals of this operation.

Where's the link?

What's the source of this, shall we say, information?

Uncharacteristically careless of you to omit that. Especially because, as we all know, GOOD Du'ers don't propagandize other DU'ers.

Nothing short of a complete and permanent occupation will keep them from ever threatening their neighbors again.

Kushner want. I would rather see the US take over, destroy Saudi Arabia. take out a ruthless enemy while gaining a lot of oil.

And now this OP wants us to continue and even escalate. Disgraceful.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/national-counterterrorism-center-director-joe-kent-resigns-wake-of-iran-war/283-db5aff55-b4b4-46e5-b0aa-5e543368f8ab