John Cornyn asks for the US Military to drone strike Tehran

[Beet]

Joe Biden

Jom Biretr

Jomm Bartr

Jommy Cartr

[Dan the Roman]

Remember that none of this would have happened had Trump not canceled the Iran deal for no reason.

Iran was doing this under the deal because Iran saw the deal as a tool of blackmail whereby they could act with impunity knowing European and American officials would be too terrified of losing the deal to respond

I don't know how hard it is to get. The Iranian regime sees the United States as an existential threat to their domestic rule and friendship is worse than hostility. They want to control the degree of hostility but for christ sakes Rouhani wrote a whole book about this where Khamenei gave instructions to do something to blow up talks whenever the United States tried to raise relations other than nuclear such as trade/travel/person to person.

So this whole "Iran can replace Saudi" thing was rejected as an option by Iran's leadership in 2004(Bush offered normalization according to Rouhani) and Iran was backing the Houthis during the deal precisely so they could do this stuff.

Thank God many of those involved are now losing their clearences.

[Birdish]

I'm interrupting that tweet as "Target Tehran aligned proxies". I don't think Cornyn is actively suggesting we bomb Iran proper. 

[Vosem]

https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1751710251055997275

Very happy to see empty-brained Republican Senators justify fairly classic Republican priorities using (apparently made-up) Lenin quotes. Vosem Thought is spreading.

[Person Man]

We can’t rule out a war with Iran but everything else should be done before we go there.

[Agafin]

Biden is already seen as weak. He absolutely has to do something.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Remember that none of this would have happened had Trump not canceled the Iran deal for no reason.

Biden’s efforts to rebuild it were half-hearted at best. This was another instance of Trump establishing a new consensus just by breaking the old one.

[Sir Mohamed]

But I thought Dems are the party of war now and the GOP are doves?

[Horus]

But I thought Dems are the party of war now and the GOP are doves?

Both parties love war. Dems just want to wage it with international coalitions while the GOP will go in all alone. Genuinely anti war figures like Ron Paul and Barbara Lee are sadly still very uncommon.

[Ferguson97]

I am grateful that we have someone with Biden’s calmness and patience in charge instead of a hotheaded neocon.

[OSR stands with Israel]

But I thought Dems are the party of war now and the GOP are doves?

Both parties love war. Dems just want to wage it with international coalitions while the GOP will go in all alone. Genuinely anti war figures like Ron Paul and Barbara Lee are sadly still very uncommon.

I’d say foreign policy is an area where the horseshoe theory is absolutely true and that explanation should be used more than trying to define the right or left as non interventionist.

- The Center Right and Center Left are the most interventionist when it comes to foreign policy

- The Right and the Left are somewhat interventionist but also tend to be the most partisan in this regard. They support their party’s interventionism but oppose the other party’s interventionism

- The Far Right and Far Left are non interventionist and isolationists

[Badger]

President Biden must forge a coalition of the willing amongst regional partners and allies to finally topple the Iranian terror regime.

Did you actually like the Iraqi war??

[Crumpets]

But I thought Dems are the party of war now and the GOP are doves?

Both parties love war. Dems just want to wage it with international coalitions while the GOP will go in all alone. Genuinely anti war figures like Ron Paul and Barbara Lee are sadly still very uncommon.

I’d say foreign policy is an area where the horseshoe theory is absolutely true and that explanation should be used more than trying to define the right or left as non interventionist.

- The Center Right and Center Left are the most interventionist when it comes to foreign policy

- The Right and the Left are somewhat interventionist but also tend to be the most partisan in this regard. They support their party’s interventionism but oppose the other party’s interventionism

- The Far Right and Far Left are non interventionist and isolationists

I mostly agree with this assessment, but I'd add that the far-right and far-left are only really non-interventionist because they are not in power and can afford to criticize the establishment on those grounds. But any time a far-right or far-left regime comes to power, that non-interventionism suddenly seems to go by the wayside for some reason.