JVL is right (THIS time :)) about the bombing of the U.S. airbase in Qatar being good news. WE know that the Iranians warned the Qatari's, who warned the U.S., and that they picked a base away from populated areas. So, your question of how is this an acceptable payback and saving face from the Iranian perspective is this: this was done f…
JVL is right (THIS time :)) about the bombing of the U.S. airbase in Qatar being good news. WE know that the Iranians warned the Qatari's, who warned the U.S., and that they picked a base away from populated areas. So, your question of how is this an acceptable payback and saving face from the Iranian perspective is this: this was done for the domestic Iranian audience, who does NOT have access to the internet. The Iranian public is being told "We dropped the same number of bombs on a U.S. base as they dropped on us. The base is destroyed. We also hit a U.S. base in Irag." Never mind that the bombs were quite different in type or that they didn't completely destroy the base or that the Iraqis report no knowledge of any bombs being dropped. Iranian public doesn't know that. All they know is that their government stood up and hit us back just as hard as we hit them (or so they think). Let us hope this is the end of U.S. involvement.
JVL is right (THIS time :)) about the bombing of the U.S. airbase in Qatar being good news. WE know that the Iranians warned the Qatari's, who warned the U.S., and that they picked a base away from populated areas. So, your question of how is this an acceptable payback and saving face from the Iranian perspective is this: this was done for the domestic Iranian audience, who does NOT have access to the internet. The Iranian public is being told "We dropped the same number of bombs on a U.S. base as they dropped on us. The base is destroyed. We also hit a U.S. base in Irag." Never mind that the bombs were quite different in type or that they didn't completely destroy the base or that the Iraqis report no knowledge of any bombs being dropped. Iranian public doesn't know that. All they know is that their government stood up and hit us back just as hard as we hit them (or so they think). Let us hope this is the end of U.S. involvement.
Yeah, he ACTUALLY had a good argument there.
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