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  1. 4 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    He's fired if we don't make the Big 12 champ game.

    Will probably get a big bonus/extension if we win the Big 12

    Probably retained even if we lose the champ game, but won't get an extension/bonus

    He better not get an extension until we see what shakes out with the QB question in 2021

  2. 8 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    I know they are saying that the goal isn't regime change, but I think it is. The Iranian government is in no position to start shit with anyone, especially a war they would lose in a matter of minutes.

    So if the Iranian government has their backs against the wall, the logical course of action is to give them something to rally the country around to their side.

    Or things continue to worsen for them, so they decide "fuck it, if the Americans are killing our generals, let's take everybody down".

    If we want to hurt them/push regime change, then continue with the sanctions, and funnel resources into the anti-government protestors in Iran.  Maybe smuggle some of their younger leaders out and put them in front of microphones and cameras.  Maybe run up some towers in Iraq and Afghanistan to beam the internet and various tv and radio transmissions to Iranians along the borders.

  3. Trump was rocking a 42% approval among military folks a few weeks ago, thanks to abandoning the Kurds, among other things.  

    I can't imagine what this will do to that approval.  Probably a few thousand families of the 82nd Airborne troops heading over that won't be big Trump fans in North Carolina, come election time.

  4. 4 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Cool flashback but not really in the spirit of the thread.  I mean you threw up the quintessential 1970s teenage boy room poster pic in there among other things. 

    Myself and the OP are the only ones posting kitchen racks.

  5. 3 hours ago, babysdaddy said:

    Man, I'm a little surprised at the reactions in here.  This guy was a terrible human, had organized and was organizing more killings of Americans, orchestrated all kinds of shit in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, etc, helped organize Iranian proxy terrorist attacks all over the globe, and had just organized this 'spontaneous' attack on the Embassy and 95% of the people in here are pissed off because the assumption is there was no planning, forethought, or concern for repercussions.  Trump is no neocon and he will not send 100k plus troops or whatever we had in Iraq.  Iran overplayed, and has been overplaying, their hand and Soleimani was the head of the military command.  This 3 days of mourning is buying time to figure out a response that will allow them to save face.  While Dotard does not appear to have any strategic plan, the Iranians do.  They will play out all scenarios and come to the same conclusion. They would lose and lose badly and now they know we can and will target leadership.

    It was mostly Saudi hijackers who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11.  A lot of Saudis killed a lot of Americans in Afghanistan, backed by Saudi money.  A lot of Saudis, or their proxies, killed a lot of Americans in Iraq, backed by Saudi money, during the Saudis proxy war with Iran after we invaded in 2003.  A lot of Saudis and Saudi money destabilized Iraq in the course of that proxy war, leading to more American deaths.  The Saudi government had Khashoggi, an American resident, killed and cut up in a Saudi embassy in Turkey.  The various extremist Wahhabist schools in Saudi Arabia export resources (people, money, etc.) around the globe that have attacked American interests, and are still doing it.

    If we are going to start playing around with killing upper management who is helping to organize attacks on American interests, then we need to start talking about the Sunnis as well.

  6. 3 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

    Maybe this was lost in my longcat post, or maybe it's so dumb that nobody bothered to refute me, but I'll say it again because I'm curious as to how others view it.

    Is it fair to call it an "assassination" when the target was a soldier? I realize he wielded a far greater role in strategic decision making than any of our generals are capable of wielding, but I just see it as fundamentally different than killing a purely political official. Yes, there are significantly greater ramifications than the killing of a grunt, but (I think?) that's an entirely separate debate. Maybe I'm just being nitpicky, but calling it an assassination seems inaccurate. To use my prior analogy, wouldn't we expect the Iranian/international response to be significantly worse if we had done the exact same thing to the Iranian President? All indications are that he was less powerful than Soleimani, but it seems to me like that would be a much more clear act of war.

    Am I making any sense? Or do I just sound like a crazy person? Not sure why this point is annoying me so much.

    Imagine if Iran killed one of our generals or perhaps the CIA Director or somebody like Pompeo in Iraq or Afghanistan.  Or even just the top CIA official in Afghanistan.  Straight up killed him, announced it on twitter, bragged about it.  Said he was planning attacks in the region on Iranian interests.

    We wouldn't have three days of mourning while deciding what to do.

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