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Quote:Did the US lose the Vietnam War? Hopefully, you are aware it did. Why did it lose? It wasn't because there are 58,318 names on the Vietnam War Memorial, but because North Vietnam wouldn't surrender despite millions of deaths. How much did it cost the US to lose? The Vietnam War cost the United States an estimated $1.6 trillion to $1.7 trillion in 2026 prices.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The Pentagon has requested an additional $200 billion in wartime funding from the White House to sustain military operations against Iran. Obviously, Iran did destroy American property.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump then proceeded — so far, at least — to lose the war he started.
By what metric?
I don't recall Iran making a single strike on American soil. I've read that Iran has seen an estimated 3,500 dead compared to 13 Americans. That's nearly 270 times the amount of deaths of Americans. We've destroyed a ton of their infrastructure and war machines. To this day, not a single warship has been sunk by Iran, yet we've sunk dozens of theirs.
Explain yourself.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Obviously? What property are you talking about. Provide legitimate links.
And on the flip-side, you fucking idiots have been telling us that Ukraine has been winning the war for 4 years now and the US alone has pissed away over $200 Billion in US taxpayer dollars on them.
Your double standards for judging everything are just gross.
TDS has completely wrecked your rotted brain.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Ukraine has not lost until it surrenders. What little the US spent there is small compared to $1,500 billion of defense spending in Trump's Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget request. https://www.crfb.org/blogs/defense-funding-put-context
Iran has not lost until it surrenders all its enriched uranium, surrenders control of the Strait, recognizes the right of Israel to exist, and changes its government from an Islamic Republic to a Christian democracy, or something, maybe Trump Jr as the next Shah of Iran.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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[Trump said he already won, so why is he talking about outwaiting Iran?]
Trump says he won't be rushed into a deal with Iran because "I don't care about the midterms"
By Adam Cancryn | May 27, 2026
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/27/world/live-news/iran-war-us-news
President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to strike a favorable deal to end the war with Iran, warning that the regime’s efforts to outlast him won’t work because “I don’t care about the midterms.”
“They thought they were going to outwait me, you know? We’ll outwait him, he’s got the midterms,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting, dismissing concerns about the war’s political toll at home.
“I don’t care about the midterms. Look what happened last night, that was a prelude to the midterms. People understand it,” he said, alluding to his endorsed candidate winning a Texas GOP Senate primary runoff.
The president expressed confidence that the US would soon reach an agreement to end the conflict, though he cautioned that his administration is not yet satisfied with the terms — and is willing to resume fighting if it can’t secure its demands.
“We’re not satisfied with it, but we will be,” Trump said. “Either that, or we’ll have to just finish the job.”
He also touted the resumption of internet access in Iran as a sign the regime’s hardline stance was weakening, arguing that “their whole economic system is broken down.”
“They want to just make a deal,” he said. “I don’t think they have a choice.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Did the US lose the Vietnam War?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The Pentagon has requested an additional $200 billion in wartime funding from the White House to sustain military operations against Iran. Obviously, Iran did destroy American property.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump then proceeded — so far, at least — to lose the war he started.
By what metric?
I don't recall Iran making a single strike on American soil. I've read that Iran has seen an estimated 3,500 dead compared to 13 Americans. That's nearly 270 times the amount of deaths of Americans. We've destroyed a ton of their infrastructure and war machines. To this day, not a single warship has been sunk by Iran, yet we've sunk dozens of theirs.
Explain yourself.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Obviously? What property are you talking about. Provide legitimate links.
And on the flip-side, you fucking idiots have been telling us that Ukraine has been winning the war for 4 years now and the US alone has pissed away over $200 Billion in US taxpayer dollars on them.
Your double standards for judging everything are just gross.
TDS has completely wrecked your rotted brain.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Shut the fuck up, retard.
The only reply I want to see out of your stupid ass is an answer to the question, otherwise you can go right to pretending I don't exist like Ted does.
I don't debate with idiot assholes. You have nothing worth saying.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Quote:6ix, do you remember this?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, retard.
The only reply I want to see out of your stupid ass is an answer to the question, otherwise you can go right to pretending I don't exist like Ted does.
I don't debate with idiot assholes. You have nothing worth saying.
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6ix, you are afraid of me stomping on your face. Your beligerance cannot disguise your terror.
When the war started, President Trump never declared formal war aims, but based on things the administration said, something like this seemed to be in their mind. They wanted a formal termination of the Iranian nuclear program that the United States had badly damaged through air strikes last summer. The Trump administration wanted some kind of termination of the ballistic-missile program.
The president of the United States had promised help is on the way to the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of Iranian people who rose up against their terrorist, repressive, theocratic regime. And you might have thought that some kind of help for the Iranian people would be part of the outcome that the United States sought—and maybe some kind of end to Iran’s practice of being the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, a status it’s held since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, with blood on its hands of people all over the world, including many Americans, from its terrorism and aggression. Some kind of change in the nature of the regime to make it less dangerous to its neighbors and its own people.
None of that happened, or none of that looks to have happened. All that looks to have happened is a reversion to the status quo as it was before the war started. It is a pretty humbling climbdown.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/05/has-trump-corrupted-the-m
ilitary/687329/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Saying ‘we won’ the Iran war is easy. Now’s the hard part.
At one point, President Trump was demanding “unconditional surrender” from Iran. Now, the U.S. is working toward a different set of objectives to try to end the war.
By Ned Temko Columnist
May 27, 2026, 6:35 p.m. ET | London
https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Essays/2026/0527/Saying-we-won-
the-Iran-war-is-easy.-Now-s-the-hard-part
“We’ve got to finish the job, right?” When U.S. President Donald Trump made that remark at a rally in Kentucky back in March, the Iran war had barely begun. And with huge firepower at his command, he exuded confidence that the endgame would be a mere formality. The war, he told the crowd of supporters, had already been “won.”
Yet 2 1/2 months on, Mr. Trump’s definition of “finishing the job” has fundamentally changed.
Despite this week’s familiar dissonance between hints of an imminent peace deal and a resumption of U.S. military strikes in Iran, the focus is no longer on achieving a definitive battlefield victory.
It’s about getting to a political arrangement that the president can sell to his supporters, winding down a war that is broadly unpopular with voters, and – by reopening the Strait of Hormuz – at least beginning to halt soaring oil and gas prices before November’s midterm elections.
The outline of an agreement with Iran, as envisaged by the Trump administration, has started to become clear from mediators involved in the talks.
First, confirmation of the ceasefire announced in early April, not long after the Kentucky rally, and since extended by Mr. Trump well past its original two-week duration.
Then, a monthlong process of reopening of the Strait of Hormuz – with Iran allowing free passage, and the United States ending its counterblockade of Iranian ports.
And alongside this, negotiations on what Mr. Trump has defined as the central aim of going to war in the first place: closing off Iran’s pathway to getting a nuclear weapon.
That could be especially delicate political territory for the president.
Any new Iran deal will inevitably be measured against President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran, which Mr. Trump denounced as “horrible” and pulled the U.S. out of during his first term.
Even before achieving an acceptable resolution on any of these issues, Mr. Trump is being forced to confront a reality about the war that was becoming apparent when he claimed victory in places including Kentucky: its “asymmetric” nature, echoing America’s long involvement in, and ultimate retreat from, Vietnam.
Yes, U.S. and Israeli forces had comprehensively outgunned Iran. They had struck thousands of targets across the country, sunk much of its navy, and killed its senior leaders.
In conventional military terms, Iran was incapable of matching America’s power.
Yet Tehran showed no sign of wanting to sue for peace.
Its regime and its military had survived. It was launching drones and missiles at America’s Gulf Arab allies, and was effectively blocking the strait through which one-fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas supplies usually traveled.
Iran retains that leverage. And, as Mr. Trump now seems to recognize, it’s unlikely to be undone even by a full-scale return to war – something key Arab allies are especially keen to avoid.
This means that the possibility, and eventual shape, of a negotiated agreement depends on Iran’s priorities as well.
Reports on the ongoing talks in recent weeks have suggested the Iranians are open to a ceasefire and a gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Even on some key nuclear issues – to judge by the indirect talks with Iran before Mr. Trump launched the war – there seems to be a prospect of common ground.
Iran’s leadership has long insisted that it does not intend to develop a nuclear weapon. It’s been receptive to diluting its near-weapons-grade stores of uranium, or perhaps moving them to an agreed third country such as Russia.
But in talks this week with representatives in the Gulf state of Qatar, Iran’s ne
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, do you remember this?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, retard.
The only reply I want to see out of your stupid ass is an answer to the question, otherwise you can go right to pretending I don't exist like Ted does.
I don't debate with idiot assholes. You have nothing worth saying.Quote:http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=12442
I'm using a very specialized offshoot of Linux geared for a very specific purpose. Unfortunately, I don't even want to mention what that is here for reasons I'm sure you understand. Knowing that wouldn't automatically allow unfriendlys to find my project, but it is just another bread crumb I'm not going to trail back to me on these forums.
48#1244248
6ix, you are afraid of me stomping on your face. Your beligerance cannot disguise your terror.
You? You little pussy? THAT is what I'm afraid of???
You're a fuckin' goofball dude.
Yeah... we already know you're a fucking creep and a stalker. Nobody would be comfortable knowing that you knew where they lived because they'd have to live the rest of their lives looking out for creepy stalker shadows, because everybody knows that little butt-fucking cowards like you only throw suckerpunches or shoot people in the back of the head like Luigi did.
I have no idea if you're a dying old man or a 22 year old snot-nosed shit living in his momma's basement, but I'll fucking put you into the ground if you come looking for me.
That's a promise.
You fucking creep
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Look out for a older man about 5'10", trim build, deeply incised lines in his face around his mouth, walks with a rolling limp. Likes to wear cowboy hats!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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SIX, Iran has Trump the world by the balls oil lifeline. That's kind of the ultimate leverage.
Only China can moderate Iran.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says
Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’
Julian Borger Senior international correspondent
Wed 27 May 2026 01.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/27/us-israel-w
ar-on-iran-driving-historic-levels-of-global-hunger-un-says
“On the funding side, we had a drop of nearly 40% year on year,” Skau said, adding that it immediately affected staffing levels, particularly in Afghanistan and Yemen, where the Trump administration has cut off all emergency food funding. “We had to let go of 5,000 people. In Afghanistan, it’s meant we went from supporting 10 million to 2 million. It was a huge, huge drop last year.” . . .
“The price of food and energy is so closely correlated that in some places if the price of energy goes up 30%, food inflation almost meets that,” Skau said. “In a least developed country, amongst the most vulnerable, they’re already spending all their money on food, and so that means they eat 30% or 40% less.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Awwww....
Too bad you don't have hundreds of Billions in NGOs and USAid that you can pocket and pretend you're feeding people with.
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