After Iranian gunboats opened fire on the Bahamas-flagged tanker Richmond Voyager on July 5, the Pentagon finally lost patience. It announced it would deploy a destroyer and F-16 and F-35 fighters to reinforce US forces – including F-22 stealth fighters and a pair of destroyers – already in the Middle East. The extra forces would “defend US interests and safeguard freedom of navigation in the region,” Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said.
Is the Bahamas a protectorate of the United States? If these tankers wanna wave the bahamian flag then they should go to the bahamian Navy for help
Why won’t those Iranians just bend the knee? Then they wouldn’t have to be killed!
I think what infuriates me the most about the article though is how it portrays Iran as just being this thug who randomly attacks shipping for no reason whatsoever, and needs a beatdown for it. That sort of thing should be trivial for anyone to see through.
Any regime pushing theocracy needs a beat down. Theocracy needs to die.
Just to be clear, you are advocating invading any foreign countries with theocratic tendencies to replace their governments with one of your choosing? Does this also include Christian countries? Or just Muslims? Animists? Pagans?
See this is where folks like yourself fuck up. Yes that includes Christian countries. ANY regime pushing theocracy needs a beat down. All of them. Get religion out of politics. Matter of fact, get religion out of Earth. I just don’t pick and choose which religions and theocracies I’m willing to oppose.
No, I think I understand you clearly. You want to dictate internal policies to any country that disagrees with your world view by sending in the tanks to cause murder and destruction.
And I don’t believe for a second that you would be in favour of someone doing it to the USA, because the USA is clearly not theocratic in any way, right?
Lol what in the fuck are you on about? ALL REGIMES THAT PUSH THEOCRACY NEED A BEAT DOWN. Am I stuttering here? Don’t fucking act like you know me. You don’t know the first fucking thing about me. All religion is bad and all governments pushing religion are bad. ALL. ALL OF THEM. Stop trying to mince my words so you can feel some sense of moral superiority.
Do you realise how unhinged you are? I’m not a fan of Theocracies either, but I’m not about to condone invading and murdering them to get my way. I think you might have read too much propaganda about this instance. We are not in favour of mass murder.
It’s your exact logic that led to the colonisation of the Americas. The natives were a bunch of savages with primitive beliefs, so they needed to be conquered and forced to adopt Christianity. You’re taking it a step further, but it’s all still the same energy. You can’t go around conquering countries and murdering people because of their religion.
The US has done this through its history, and all it’s done is destabilise the world, and cause millions of deaths. Iran’s current government was created in response to US meddling.
If you have a difference of opinion with someone, your first thought can’t be to kill them. That’s psychotic.
Not to mention millions of people are being killed, starved and otherwise oppressed around the world in the name of US civil religion.
