Your President lies to you constantly (and says he'll take stuff), and you despise those who point it out.
It is a bold thing to say while being so intensely full a crap.
This is quite a revealing sentence for you to write, really. It shows that you approach these questions not according to what's true, but what's beneficial to you. What i would "lose" is nothing. Its also totally irrelevant to the truth.
Selective memory.
And I'm sorry that your President has come out with a string of utterly moronic, posturing, often self-contradictory messages about his war aims. But you need to accept that or you'll never advance beyond reflexive tribalism.
You understood my point and then projected. You are deprioritizing truth, which means you have a different motive, hence why I ask. Because I know you're not approaching the question based on truth, I am lead to ask what it is you are prioritizing.
Aaah, so its just another instance of your unwillingness to acknowledge disagreement as anything other than a lie.
I know Iran probably wouldn't do it to avoid even further escalation, but they could just publicly execute the soldier.
The arbitrary execution of Palestinians could also prompt Iran to kill this pilot.
The Golf states need the desalination more than Iran does. The US currently does not have any good escalatory options.
Unless the US doesn't care about other nations...for that matter, unless the leaders of the US don't care about the US.
I already acknowledged that Iran would draw further ire from the US and probably wouldn't do it. Just saying they'd be "justified" in my eyes, considering the US' behaviour.
Given the US's behaviour, in particular killing civilians, as a civilian I don't want my country to support the US on this, for reasons of how justified attacks on my personal safety would be if nothing else.
