{"id":15575,"date":"2025-06-22T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=15575"},"modified":"2025-06-22T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:23:07","slug":"didnt-see-that-coming-apparently-neither-did-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/06\/22\/didnt-see-that-coming-apparently-neither-did-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn&#8217;t see that coming, apparently neither did Iran."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump took out Iran&#8217;s uranium refineries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Good! The last people on the planet that should have nuclear weapons, or even nuclear materials is a bunch of 12th century religious zealots.<\/p>\n<p>Since the days of Carter, I\u2019ve suggested that we give Iran nuclear weapons &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pointy end first<\/span>. Then erect a huge monument to stupidity that could be seen from orbit on the foot thick slab of glass that used to be Iran.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at it as a twofer, maybe a threefer. We\u2019d get rid of the crazy mullahs, combat climate change with the dust the blast would kick into the atmosphere, and send a very clear concise message to terrorists that their unending violence would not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>Most people told me my suggestion was extreme. Maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve mellowed over the years, largely due to my other half being such a just and kind person. I\u2019m still in favor of terrorists being shot on sight. I\u2019m not particularly interested in trials or appeals for them.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I have no pity for Gaza. The Palestinians were given the land, allowed to create their own governance, and chose a terrorist organization to be their government. What they\u2019ve done over the years, and in particular on Oct 7 deserves no mercy, no pity, and no survivors.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not hatred that I feel, it\u2019s exhaustion. The entire Middle East has exhausted me.<\/p>\n<p>Send all their \u201cimmigrants\u201d back from Western countries, quarantine the area, then let them murder each other at will. Wait 50 or 100 years then check on them to see if any of them had evolved beyond the 12th century.<\/p>\n<p>This morning Iran is crying to the UN about not being able to make \u201c<em>Mostly Peaceful<\/em>\u201d Nuclear weapons. At the same time they\u2019re still lobbing \u201c<em>Mostly Peaceful<\/em>\u201d ballistic missiles at Israel. I\u2019d laugh if I didn\u2019t know that the UN will of course condemn the US for burying a shit ton of uranium in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I disagree with Israel launching the first missiles at Iran. I think it might not have been that great an idea.<\/p>\n<p>I guess they had their reasons, and I don\u2019t know enough to really assess what the motivation was. In general I\u2019m in favor of destroying Iranian ability to sponsor global terrorist networks, piracy on the high seas, and God knows what other shenanigans they\u2019re behind on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>Iran should be glad people with Western values are choosing tactical targets. I suspect that if someone were motivated, almost every city in Iran could be leveled in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reasonably sure that as long as the oil production sites weren\u2019t significantly damaged, no-one would give a shit. Perhaps it could be sold to the rest of the world as, \u201c<em><strong>For the Greater Good<\/strong><\/em>\u201d. That seems to carry weight with a lot of people these days.<\/p>\n<p>It would do my evil little heart good to see tons of Americans out on the streets shouting \u201cDeath to Iran\u201d or \u201cMurder a Mullah for God\u201d. Burning effigies, Iranian flags, and such.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just sick and tired of being extorted by Iran (how many billions have been given to them to \u201cbuy\u201d peace?) Maybe I\u2019m sick of having to be \u201cNice\u201d. Maybe I\u2019m just tired of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want any American boots on the ground in the Middle East ever again. But I wouldn\u2019t be opposed to making an example of the primary ringleaders of chaos from the air.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad Trump bombed the shit out of their facilities. Now let Israel finish the job.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it, Iran has ordered the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it would mean escalation of hostilities, I\u2019m not opposed to the US Navy hunting down and sinking every Iranian warship. While we\u2019re at it, destroy every single Iranian military aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also for isolating them from the internet, and seizing all their foreign assets, including bank accounts, then returning that money to the American Taxpayer as reparations for PTSD.<\/p>\n<p>If you deny the Mullahs the ability to make war, then you won\u2019t have war.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least I\u2019m not advocating burning their fields and villages then plowing salt into the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump took out Iran&#8217;s uranium refineries.\u00a0 Good! The last people on the planet that should have nuclear weapons, or even nuclear materials is a bunch of 12th century religious zealots. Since the days of Carter, I\u2019ve suggested that we give Iran nuclear weapons &#8211; Pointy end first. Then erect a huge monument to stupidity that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/06\/22\/didnt-see-that-coming-apparently-neither-did-iran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Didn&#8217;t see that coming, apparently neither did Iran.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,114,106,34],"tags":[190,275,184,244],"class_list":["post-15575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-islamofascists","category-jihadists","category-military","tag-assholes","tag-islamofascists","tag-jihadists","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15576,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions\/15576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}