One of my 'go tos' for intelligent discussion of things Lutheran is Ad Crucem ( https://www.adcrucem.news/ ). They just posted a longish, but largely good analysis of the events leading up to our current war in Iran. https://www.adcrucem.news/p/what-do-we-really-know-about-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=891735&post_id=191390727&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=yvl8u&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I replied with the comment below. Bottom line is: President Trump in his typical way is doing the right - if ugly - thing and doing a poor job justifying it ... while smashing a vicious enemy to rubble.
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Dear Ad Crucem,
I completely agree with your analysis of the Israeli lobby's info war against all critics - not blindly for the war = antisemitic.
I completely disagree with your analysis that a simple nuclear device has no strategic impact. If smuggled into NY, San Francisco, and LA harbors their detonation would have war winning impact for Iran - that is, regime change in DC. I believe this is a real threat for a host of reasons including: North Korea's shift from plutonium to uranium, the known financial support Iran has provided to North Korea's weapons program, the presence of Iranian nuclear scientists at tests of North Korean nuclear devices, and North Korea's comments last June about providing nukes.
I believe such a scenario is a real and present danger that only annihilation of the theocratic islamist government in Iran will address.
I've included San Francisco in the likely target list because the Chinese would insist (the center AI research in the US) - and it is them, and them alone, who have the deciding vote on the delivery - North Korea is their creature.
President Trump in his typical way is doing the right, if ugly, thing - for the wrong reason, and on a timeline dictated by Bibi and friends. A proper timeline would have had visible identification of Quds and Hizballah cells in the US neutralized first but, what is is better than what could have been.
May God bless our sailors and aircrews and may Iran's Christians have an Easter with celebration.
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