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Paul Thoresen's avatar

I always liked it when when the iron sheik would mention Dan Gable. Especially funny since I was born and raised in Iowa 🙂

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Andrei Petrovitch's avatar

Oh, and the Sheik ruled! His Twitter account was the only reason to be on the site. My friends and I still refer to “the real” all the time. RIP, legend.

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PurpleAmerica's avatar

Gotta love "Shiek-y Baby"

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Andrei Petrovitch's avatar

So, no worries about terrorism? No worries about Trump impulsively doing something stupid to make things worse? I wish I had your optimism, heh.

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PurpleAmerica's avatar

No, there's worries. I just don't think that there are any in the immediate future, so long as Israel is still bombing them and the heads of their military and intelligence have been wiped out. It takes time to build that kind of infrastructure up again. Hezbollah and Hamas, the two proxy groups Iran has relied on in the past for that have largely been wiped out.

Long term, yeah, you can expect some consequences. In the next year or two? Probably not.

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Andrei Petrovitch's avatar

But we’re counting ONLY on Hamas and Hezbollah being the only players here. Is there another al Qaeda scheming something? Iran had been counting on some sort of conflict with the us since 1979; I don’t think they’re foolish enough not to have some sort of contingency.

As for, “eh, maybe down the road” - why would Iran wait before enacting another 9/11? If anything, stalling looks weak and almost guarantees the regime topples itself. The people of Iran are gonna demand action yesterday.

Sorry man, but I think we’re getting way too calm about this.

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