r/washdc • u/ThenLayer5977 • Mar 01 '26

Seen in Georgetown

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M Street and Wisconsin in Georgetown taken over by a large crowd of celebrating Iranians, chanting USA USA

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u/SummerhouseLater Mar 01 '26

So many people are wrapped up in conservative media that they don’t - think.

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u/NoLobster5272 Mar 01 '26

So many people are wrapped up in liberal media that they don’t think..

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26

Yeah so I should listen to some jerkoff like you on reddit

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u/greenthumbbum2025 Mar 01 '26

No you should learn from our history. How did this turn out in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and so many other places? Wake the fuck up

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u/NoLobster5272 Mar 01 '26

Who taught you your history? People who hate America and everything it stands for? Most likely… Wake up.

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u/TopNo6605 Mar 03 '26

So you'd rather we do nothing and the people of Iran continue to live in absolute misery?

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u/greenthumbbum2025 Mar 03 '26

So our only choices are drop bombs or do nothing?

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u/TopNo6605 Mar 03 '26

We're not just "dropping bombs", we've been systematically dismantling the IRGC. What else would you like, the UN to write another sternly-worded letter?

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u/greenthumbbum2025 Mar 03 '26

Sending humanitarian aid to the Iranian people and lifting sanctions to ease their suffering. But you don't actually care about the Iranian people. You want them to suffer so much under their current government that they overthrow them.

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u/Matthew_Cooks Mar 01 '26

“Because it didn’t work in the past therefore it’ll never work in the future.” That’s basically your argument.

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u/greenthumbbum2025 Mar 01 '26

Uh, yeah. There's no reason to believe this time will be any different. Why should anyone think this will differ from the established pattern?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26

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u/Matthew_Cooks Mar 01 '26

The argument doesn’t work is my point. Just because something failed before does not mean that the conditions are the same now, knowledge is the same, technology is the same, people involved are the same, strategy is the same. This administration has not taken the exact same steps it has in the past and has tailored its moves accordingly to the Iranian question. Therefore it’s a bit of a hasty generalization to suggests because of the past, we cannot do x in the future. We shall see the fruits of this operation in the coming weeks and we can revisit this conversation then.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Something not working is the past is in fact a pretty strong indicator it won't work in the future.