" ... [The UK] should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is.
"Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy. [snip]
"The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable." -- General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, in a March 5 interview on Britain's Sky News. If only we had a few generals like him (though it's hard to say what's being talked about in the halls of the Pentagon these days).
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