SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: How many allegedly elite officials in America will continue to embarrass themselves w statements like these

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How many allegedly elite officials in America will continue to embarrass themselves w statements like these from @SenTedCruz
 which are absent the most elementary of analysis?

When people like Senator Cruz here argue that President Trump should “hold the line“ and enforce established red lines, what does that even mean? And I’m not asking in a general sense, I’m asking for granularity befitting a senior US senator.

Questions like:

How much military force would be required to destroy the Iranian regime and their military? 

Do we have that much military power?

How long would it take to “hold the line” and bring the Iranian government into submission?

How can they be forced to comply with our demands to give up nuclear enrichment, nuclear materials, and release control of the straight? How many bombers would it take, how many aircraft carriers, how many destroyers, how many missiles, and how much time would it take to accomplish that, if it was even possible?

Without a ground force threat, how can bombing alone force a country as big as much of western Europe into submission when that has never worked in the last hundred years?

What would be the objectives, and what military forces would be allocated to accomplish it?

These are answers I would expect of a US senator advocating military action against another country to provide. But we don’t get that anymore. 

All we get are these bumper sticker slogans like “hold the line“ but no concept of how that can be materialized in real life.

Especially in a case like this, where walking away with a deal that Iran can live with is probably the best that we can obtain at this point, at a cost we can afford, to start repairing the damage already done by the foolish decision that Senator Cruz advocated of going to war – without having a bloody idea what would b necessary to accomplish that task, or how much it would cost, or how long it would take, or whether we even had sufficient resources!

No, just plunge our military into an emotionally satisfying attack and hope for the best. 

That’s how empires fall.

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Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

I am deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran “deal,” being pushed by some voices in the administration.

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of his second term. He was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary