So you're just a "regime change" warmonger chickenhawk.

And please tell me how I ever "portray[ed] Iran as the good guys here" because that's a straw man you piled up with your pathetic binary understanding of global affairs.

Hint: there is way more nuance to international relations than "good" and "bad" and you're a fucking idiot to try to reduce it to such triviality.

I never said that Iran didn't have it coming. My problem is that our President violated US law to deliver it.

He couldn't do it the right way and have the Republican Congress give him the proper authority to do what he's doing? Even Shrub was able to get that done for Afghanistan / Iraq with his WMD lies - are you saying that GWB was a better negotiator and legislator than Trump? Because it sounds like that's what you're saying.

So maybe you should talk to them about that, and how that violates their laws.

We're talking about violating our own laws here, and why post-facto justification doesn't cut it.

It's been known by anyone with a pulse that this is exactly the leverage that Iran would use in an existential crisis. To cause an existential crisis and not figure that they would pull that lever is fucking stupid. Do not blame someone for the reaction to the stimulus that you provided - it makes you look like an idiot. Do you blame someone for kicking at you if you hit their patellar tendon with a reflex hammer?

TL;DR: if someone says "do ${ACTION} and I'm going to punch you in the dick" are you surprised if you do ${ACTION} they try to hit you in the dick?

Stop trying to post-facto justify an illegal war, where the "justifications" change every hour. And if we were over there to delivery the Iranian people from repression, why are we now softening our position of "unconditional surrender" to a 15-point plan where they don't even want to say what the 15 points are? Are any of them a regime change that deals with what you're talking about even remotely?

How are we delivering Iranian people from tyranny if it's a guy with the same name and same politics still leading the country?

Why are you trying to justify the absolute nonsense this administration is trying to sell? None of it makes any sense if you put even a second of thought to it. You might try it some time.

So you are conveniently forgetting all the naval and island invasion campaigns such as Midway, Guadalcanal, The Aleutian Islands, New Guinea, Saipan, Iwo Jima, the Phillippines, or Okinawa.

You think that the Japanese are stupid? They already lost everything they had taken, were being strategically carpet bombed every single night, and then had two cities sublimated in seconds. They knew it was done, and acted accordingly. But do not move the goalposts and try to claim the Pacific war was just aerial bombardment because there's tens of thousands of US Marines that are in the ground that would say otherwise.

Not reading anything else because you got that so tragically incorrect.

You know that there are several revisions of the Patriot launchers and rockets, yeah?

It's not the same block-1 design in use today. To think it is, is hilariously ignorant.

There's another angle here.

If one of these things costs $99k, and the missile system that is used to intercept it costs $1M+, there's a big scaling issue to the missile defense.

You can throw 10x of these things downrange for the same cost to intercept a single missile. That's not a good defensive strategy at all.

On the other hand, once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's damn hard to get it back in.

One company in China figured out how to make a cheap hypersonic missile out of commercially available shit.

Others, in different jurisdictions, will figure out how they did it, and replicate it.

China won't get to say shit while they're trying to jam a lot of toothpaste back into a tube.

No, it isn't.

US Constitution, Article 1 Section 8 Clause 16: "Congress governs the militia, while the states retain the authority to appoint officers and train the militia based on congressional regulations."

Seems that "well regulated" is defined as "Congress gets to define the regulation."

Actual verbage:

This is why we have a judicial branch, whose entire existence is to interpret the laws to current circumstances and context.

No, they did not enumerate a list of "arms" that the government shall not infringe upon, because the instant you make an allowlist / denylist, it's stale and incomplete.

Nobody in 1791 could have envisioned portable rocket launchers, 600 rounds-per-minute machine guns, lasers, thermonuclear warheads, etc. Similarly, nobody in 2026 is threatening anyone with a breach-loading musket.

Such a specific enumeration would always be a fool's errand, thus it was written intentionally vague so that judges can "fill in the blanks" with jurisprudence.

That's how US law works.

Then what about this language:

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 16: "Congress governs the militia, while the states retain the authority to appoint officers and train the militia based on congressional regulations."

Are you going to redefine "governs" now too?

Caveat emptor.

If the copyright is about to expire, and you don't think you can get the ROI before it becomes public domain, you are a stupid buyer.

Under Section 238 of the CDA, they are not.

This is not a shocking development at all, since it's also exactly what Google is doing on their own Pixel phones.

So for you, the ends justify the means no matter what the means are?

He has killed thousands of Iranians, cost the global economy trillions of dollars, cost the taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, ruined the US's reputation as a dependable and reliable partner, and effectively made the rule of law meaningless... but the exact same regime that does horrible things to Iranians is still in power so... winning?

Would you apply the same asinine justifications if Biden or Obama would have done the same thing? Starting a war that throws the global economy into reverse while increasing average fuel costs for US citizens by at least 30% and climbing, and you would have been just peachy with it, because of the poor downtrodden Iranians?

Get fucked, you anonymous pathetic hypocrite ball-washing shill.

Tired of all the winning yet?

We were promised that we were going to be crying about how we couldn't take all the winning. I'm just wondering if we're there yet.

Because they have a software ecosystem that is well understood by just about everyone?