Exclusive War with Iran starting this week? (2 Viewers)

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[barfo]

The selective outrage is staggering. Thousands of Iranians — including children — have been killed, tortured, and executed by their own government, yet the same people who march demanding the US cut all aid, impose arms embargoes, and directly intervene to stop what they call a genocide in Gaza were completely silent about Iran / oppose involvment. No demanding the US sanction the regime into the ground. No calling on Washington to arm and actively support Iranian resistance fighters. No pushing for a US-backed no-fly zone to protect protesters being gunned down in the streets. No ICC referrals championed in Congress. These are the exact tools they scream for elsewhere — but when it comes to an actual theocratic regime systematically murdering its own people, suddenly US involvement is off the table. The hypocrisy isn't just glaring — it exposes that this was never about human lives. It's about who's doing the killing.

"by their own government". As opposed to "by your government". There's one difference. Kind of a big difference.

The US already had the Iranian regime sanctioned into the ground, no need for anyone to call for that.
Not sure there were Iranian resistance fighters to arm - protesters are not an army.
How would a no-fly zone help protesters being 'gunned down in the streets'? They weren't being gunned down from airplanes (I assume).

Iran wasn't our ally. We weren't funding Iran, or supplying them weapons. There's no reason to think that we could influence them to act better.
There was some reason to think that maybe we might have some way to influence Israel to do better. People were wrong about that, but it wasn't completely crazy to try.

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