US kills Iran's General Soleimani

Define "rogue state". The country that wants to have control of it's own sovereignty and resources? Isn't what UK wants atm getting out of the EU becoming a rogue state (to the EU) itself?

Hypocrisy is strong with you.

Delusion is strong with you.

Control of their resources isn’t the issue here - desire to build nukes and fund proxy wars and in this case carry out attacks on the US is the issue.

Iran chose to attack the US, the US responded...
 
Hardly just the US... funding terrorism goes against most people views of the world.
Except somehow when we do the same things it's not terrorism, it's "spreading freedom" or some jazz. How many times have we armed and funded insurgents in foreign lands? Hint: a lot. Including recently.

The US is in Iraq to fight ISIS and train Iraqi security forces. Iran has attacked the US in Iraq, Iran wants western forces gone from Iraq... the US has every right to respond to that.
Iraq wants them gone now.

They had an agreement with Iraq that they would get permission to use their air space. They then in this instance decided it wasn't important to do so, and basically violated Iraq's airspace and sovereignty to act unilaterally.

The US in "doing what it wants" shocker. Again.
 
@FoxEye

Again they attacked the US, planned further attacks - why shouldn’t the US respond?

Just carry on ignoring them?

Create false equivalences... hey guys the Us is involved in wars and kills people etc...
 
Ahh yeah British "rule"...... 1955 Cyprus? When Britain used Turks as judges to hang Greeks on the streets and the British solders are still been chased at the British courts for physically torturing children?

How about the Mau Mau in Kenya in the 50s?

But then

Atm we are on the dark side of history, having become what our fathers fought in WW2. Without realising this, only downwards spiral exist.

Both Cyprus and Kenya fought by many troops who also fought in WW2 - So the comment of "having become what our fathers fought in WW2." doesn't make any sense unless you're suggesting that those who fought against tyranny in WW2 are the very same troops who then did a complete 180 and became evil (my term not yours) themselves in Cyprus and Kenya? I'm just a little confused by the duality of saying the WW2 troops were good but then evil a decade later?
 
Consequences work both ways, you seem more concerned with those of the U.S. than those of Iran, it's almost as if you're excusing Iran from any consequences. You even go as far as to describe the U.S.'s actions as "egregious", somewhat shocking considering Iran's recent behaviour and let's not forget what they were up to! Are you prepared to accept that the Iranians (using your standards) are just as bad, if not worse?
Because our side is been led by the Americans :confused:, so yeah I am going to have an issue with that. We're supposed to lead by example right? I am not trying to defend Iran but you seem to be doing the very thing you're accusing me of. America has dozens of military bases surrounding Iran, America successfully overthrew an Iranian government, America shot down an Iranian airliner (lied about the circumstances) and then treated the captain of that ship as a war hero, America has betrayed a growing list of 'allies' in the ME to serve their interests, America have reneged on the JCPOA, America bomb various parts of the ME with impunity, America are in cahoots with Saudi Arabia who themselves export and fund Sunni terrorism in the region and have continuously committed suspected war crimes in Yemen, America have themselves been accused of committing several war crimes in the region, they lied about the reasons for invading Iraq and they have lied about their handling of Afghanistan and their end goals. So yes I would absolutely call their actions egregious, provocative and aggressive. FFS I forgot this peach - at one time the American government were funding two separate 'moderate militias' who fought against each other (CIA for one and the Pentagon for the other I believe).

Iran have also exported terrorism, committed/been accused war crimes and committed other atrocities themselves and through proxies. So how has America's actions in the ME helped things? Where is your outrage about SA? And if we're meant to be the good guys - how can you justify that list? Are you prepared to accept America are just as filthy and deceitful, if not worse? More importantly are you prepared to accept our ME policy has been an abject failure and we have only made things worse.
 
Because our side is been led by the Americans :confused:, so yeah I am going to have an issue with that. We're supposed to lead by example right? I am not trying to defend Iran but you seem to be doing the very thing you're accusing me of.
Our side? I thought "we" (I'm in the U.K. for the avoidance of doubt) were asking for restraint and for diplomacy to be given a chance? That was the latest news I read, not aware that anything has changed on that front(?).

Iran have also exported terrorism, committed/been accused war crimes and committed other atrocities themselves and through proxies. So how has America's actions in the ME helped things? Where is your outrage about SA? And if we're meant to be the good guys - how can you justify that list? Are you prepared to accept America are just as filthy and deceitful, if not worse? More importantly are you prepared to accept our ME policy has been an abject failure and we have only made things worse.
Not sure what SA refers to?

For sure the U.S. has made mistakes in the M.E. We could go through each and every mistake and analyse them, but we're talking about the U.S. taking out an Iranian General here, I dont see this particular instance as a mistake.
 
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Yes see bellow

....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213593975732527112?ref_src=twsrc^tfw


That isnt what was said, you really do post some exaggerated baloney :p
No he didn't. Read it again.

The English language isn't your strong point yes? See above.

Funny having better understanding on it while is my third language. (fourth if you count Ancient Greek which learned before English).
 
So the US can do what it wants regardless of any agreements it has in place, if it (alone) feels that it has just cause? So again, might makes right...

Eh? They were attacked surely it is up to them how they respond - why can’t they?
 
Eh? They were attacked surely it is up to them how they respond - why can’t they?
You're asking why the US can't attack a target in a foreign country against the will of that country, when it has already signed up to consulting that country before using its airspace. And then didn't.

And now that country wants them to leave and Trump has said they won't leave unless that host country pays them to leave...

Come on, now.
 
You're asking why the US can't attack a target in a foreign country against the will of that country, when it has already signed up to consulting that country before using its airspace. And then didn't.

And now that country wants them to leave and Trump has said they won't leave unless that host country pays them to leave...

Come on, now.
Abbottabad? Was okay for Obama to do it.
 
Our side? I thought "we" (I'm in the U.K. for the avoidance of doubt) were asking for restraint and for diplomacy to be given a chance? That was the latest news I read, not aware that anything has changed on that front(?).

Not sure what SA refers to?

For sure the U.S. has made mistakes in the M.E. We could go through each and every mistake and analyse them, but we're talking about the U.S. taking out an Iranian General here, I dont see this particular instance as a mistake.
For one we weren't even notified beforehand, another issue of trust and showing us how rewarding that special relationship is. Regarding what Britain is saying....

I think the Americans are trying to make sure this doesn’t escalate in the sense of Iran taking measures which are disproportionate and which may cause, inevitably, this thing to go on and on and get worse. Andrew Murrison - minister for the ME

On the surface, makes sense but America themselves have threatened disproportionate retaliation so surely this messaging should be applied to both sides.

In a brief statement, Johnson said the UK “will not lament” the death of Qasem Soleimani, blaming him for “the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and western personnel

Apologies, I was referring to Saudi Arabia with SA but this quote is poignant. Again nothing wrong with the statement on the surface until you realise the sheer hypocrisy of it. SA have been directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians in Yemem, bombing the likes of homes, hospitals and schools (including a centre for the blind) and what did we do? Sell them weapons (including cluster bombs which have been illegal for years) and provide training. Once too much attention came to this, we decided to slightly scale things back with am embargo and still managed to sell a few illegal items - twice! So why are we still selling weapons and the best of friends with a nation that does the very thing we (correctly) accuse another of?

I am all for restraint but I will eat my proverbial hat if anything we say makes one bit of difference with America considering they have acted unilaterally on so many issues.

It really doesn't need line by line analysis. Invading Iraq was a lie. Staying in Afghanistan is a lie. The goalposts keep moving as to when this ends. It's cost thousands of US/UK military lives and indirectly and directly hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Iraqi/Syrian/Libyan/Afghan lives. And all for what? As I said before, if Solemani's death leads to a better and safer position - good job. You honestly think a Trump administration is going to do a better job than Bush and Obama?
 
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Abbottabad? Was okay for Obama to do it.
I think you misunderstand.

A lot of us are saying that actually, it's not OK for the US to behave like this. Regardless of who is President.

You can't be saying, "It's OK, they've always been like this. It's nothing new" and using that as a justification?
 
It's amazing how a title shows opinion. Of course you could also say...

Donald Trump authorises a precision strike to eliminate the architect of the US embassy attack.
 
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