If all the Middle Eastern countries who have given Jared money were to demand their money back unless

[jls4561]

daddy-in-law stopped the bombing, could that end this clusterfuck?

[Irish_Dem]

1. They demand their money back and Trump bombs them back to the Stone Age.

[surfered]

2. The Saudis consider Iran a threat, then there's the historical Sunni/Shiite conflict

[GiqueCee]

5. There's that age-old...

... religious justification for ruthless violence. They pay little, if any, attention to the teachings of the Prophet, or Jesus; they just want an excuse to chop somebody up.
The same kind of people infest this country as well. Virtually all the Founding Fathers were quite specific in their denial of any religious basis for the establishment of the United States, but that doesn't deter the rabid fanatics of the Christian Nationalists, or any of the Muslim or Hebrew factions that believe that their religious beliefs justify violence to achieve their ends, no matter how nefarious they may be. But it's always about power, which is just shorthand for total dominion over the lives of others.
They're all exceedingly tiresome.

[UTUSN]

3. The "board of peace" (sic) would get a refund except that by playing they were in on the scam.

[Cheezoholic]

4. They're all for it. They wanted the Iranian regime gone for decades. But THEY should've done it not us!

They've got the firepower. We could've assisted but THEY should've done it. But they didn't for the same reason there will never be a democracy in the region. The monarchies gotta keep their foot on the necks of their people. Democracy, for all of its complications, tends to spread like a virus in a region if it gets established somewhere. There is 0 chance Iran will revert back to the republic it was in the 50's. This is why the countries in the region paid off FatAss too do this for them.

This will end in a mess with a fierce Iranian dicktater that shakes hands with Bone Saw et. al. Iran WAS the democracy in the Middle East that WOULD have spread to the countries surrounding it 70 years ago. WE shut that down and initialized the rise of monarchies (behind a cloak of Islamic Fundamentalism) in the region who took control of the oil and initially kicked foreign countries out.

This region is a cluster of our own making and this failed president and his cronies are re-enforcing it to enrich themselves. We were paid hitman in this pure and simple.

[edhopper]

6. Don't you understand

that they are doing this at the behest of the Saudis?

[GiqueCee]

7. NONE of this would have happened...

... if we – meaning the USA – hadn't agreed to help Britain depose the democratically elected Mossadegh, who refused to let the Brits lay claim to Iran's oil reserves, so they got the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, and his SAVAK, which made our ICE goons look like a bunch of Campfire Girls on a picnic. So Iranians – who are not "Brown People", but Caucasians like us, if ya wanna get technical about it – have very good reasons to distrust us.
But that's the kind of sordid history that Republicans want to erase.

[ms liberty]

8. Why would they do that? We're currently doing their dirty work for them.

It isn't just Netanyahu that wanted regime change in Iran. The Saudis et al just didn't want to do it themselves.