WW3 - are we bothered?

[Balanbam00]

The decision by US President Donald Trump to kill Qasem Soleimani, leader of Iran’s Quds Force, should not be considered a controversial move but rather a welcome one that rid the world of an arch terrorist, responsible for the deaths of thousands of people across the globe.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force is embedding itself in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere, realizing the dream of the Islamic Republic to set up a crescent of power throughout the region, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. Wherever Iran has power, it uses it for terrorism. The targets range from the horrific attack on the AMIA Jewish community building in Buenos Aires, which left 85 people dead in 1994, to the ongoing rocket attacks from Yemen on Saudi Arabia and the attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf; the occasional firing of Katyushas onto the Israeli side of the Golan Heights; and the storming of the US Embassy in Baghdad and attacks on US military bases in Iraq.

The targeted killing sent out a clear message to Iran and the terrorist organizations and murderous regimes it supports: No more.
It’s true that Iran is expected to respond and it is not known when, where and at what price. But what’s also clear is that had Soleimani continued fostering terrorism unrestrained, this too would have resulted in the death of innocent victims.
Trump’s decision to kill Soleimani is in keeping with his principles of putting pressure on Iran and follows his withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which granted Iran a flush of money to prop up the regime and fund terrorism in return for a temporary delay in reaching its goals of achieving military nuclear capability.
Iran might want to turn Soleimani into a martyr, but he was no saint. He should not be mourned or missed by anybody with a sense of moral decency.

[alfinyalcabo]

I'm certainly not mourning his passing .. Nor will be the thousands of people related to people the scumbag has had murdered.. Good riddance to him and his protégé.

[1959_60]

Balan (and others) in a poll in Germany the people were asked which leader of a nation was the greatest threat to world peace. The results were...

Donald Trump (USA) 41%
Kim Jong-Un (North Korea) 17%
Ali Khamenei (Iran) 8%
Vladimir Putin (Russia) 8%
Xi-Jinping (China) 7%

On this subject the Germans should be listened to very carefully!

[alfinyalcabo]

Balan (and others) in a poll in Germany the people were asked which leader of a nation was the greatest threat to world peace. The results were...

Donald Trump (USA) 41%
Kim Jong-Un (North Korea) 17%
Ali Khamenei (Iran) 8%
Vladimir Putin (Russia) 8%
Xi-Jinping (China) 7%

On this subject the Germans should be listened to very carefully!

In a poll in England the people were asked whether they wanted to leave the European community and the result was a majority vote of Yes..

On this subject the Politicians should have been listening very carefully..

[Norder]

The Orange Buffoon pulls the trigger, we have a nuclear powered sub with missiles locked and loaded on Tehran.

Where's the outrage?

....I think, there's too great a distance to those who hold the Power - perhaps becuase the People forget that it's they (so-called Leaders) who are working for us (The People), that we Trust them (too much) to do their best for Us - So then, why is it, those few who hold the Power...are those that cause the biggest headaches - even though the vast majority of Us , wherever we are, only want a peaceful life, as am sure - so do your regular Russian/Chinaman/American or Iranian etc - that just as we, they dont spend their days imagining ways annihilate others...just like we dont all flock cheering toward a Psychos corner...we distance oureslves from them, or them from us (behind bars) - So why such allegiance to these maniacal hate shaping "leaders" ?.....what hold do they have over us ? who do we think they are - all powerful divine beings ?!?.....well No, they're not - it's just a small Cabal of interconnected nutjobs, that realise...as long as they keep us down, under their thumb, and under their Rule, followers of mind numbing prattle and manufactured distraction - the more free they are to advance themselves and their agenda....even if, that means to the destruction of X billions of us......so yeah, where is the outrage !

[1959_60]

In a poll in England the people were asked whether they wanted to leave the European community and the result was a majority vote of Yes..

On this subject the Politicians should have been listening very carefully..

Let's not go there eh, Alf?

[alfinyalcabo]

Let's not go there eh, Alf?

Where into Europe? Haha....There might be no Europe to go into 59/60 when the Mussies start bombing..

[sinkov]

The Orange Buffoon pulls the trigger, we have a nuclear powered sub with missiles locked and loaded on Tehran.

Where's the outrage?

I haven't checked the Grauniad recently, but I would imagine their's a fair amount of foam-flecked outrage there. But I could be wrong.

[sinkov]

The US is now a rogue state and we will be right by their side as we desperately try to reach a trade deal with them.

I could have sworn you lefties have been calling the USA a 'rogue state' since I was in short pants, but I could be wrong.

[sinkov]

Terrifying really isn't it?

Nope.