{"id":37613,"date":"2019-06-22T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37613"},"modified":"2019-06-22T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T00:00:22","slug":"wanting-to-believe-potus-on-canceled-strike-but-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37613","title":{"rendered":"Wanting to believe POTUS on canceled strike, but then &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Iranstrike%20%23POTUS%20%23nationalsecurityteam&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/air-drone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37614\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/air-drone-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/air-drone-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/air-drone.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I truly want to believe Donald Trump&#8217;s statement that he called off a strike against Iran because it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;proportionate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I want to believe that he asked about the potential for civilian casualties and then decided the strike was too heavy a punishment against the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had shot down a drone aircraft over international waters. The Iranians allege the craft, which was unarmed, was flying in its territorial air space.<\/p>\n<p>Trump then sought to retaliate for the shooting down of a U.S. military asset. He said our forces were &#8220;cocked and loaded.&#8221; He said he was set to send the craft against the Iranian targets, but then he thought differently about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketr.org\/post\/trump-says-strike-iran-was-cocked-and-loaded-he-called-it\">The brass told him<\/a> there would be civilian casualties, possibly 150 people, Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>So he backed off.<\/p>\n<p>Do I believe him? Do I take him at his word, that he&#8217;s telling us the truth? <em>Hah!<\/em> How is that even possible, given this individual&#8217;s penchant for prevarication?<\/p>\n<p>I am left to presume the president is giving it to us straight, absent any public rebuke from the military brass that took part in developing the response.<\/p>\n<p>I stand <em>at the moment<\/em> highly relieved that the president didn&#8217;t heed the advice from the uber-hawks among his national security team who argued for a military strike that might have produced a seriously dangerous response from a <em>seriously rogue nation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Iranstrike%20%23POTUS%20%23nationalsecurityteam&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I truly want to believe Donald Trump&#8217;s statement that he called off a strike against Iran because it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;proportionate.&#8221; I want to believe that he asked about the potential for civilian casualties and then decided the strike was too heavy a punishment against the Islamic Republic of Iran. 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