Flight 752 -- the cost not paid by America

Stanyon · Jan 13, 2020

Salvador said:
I suppose Iran might claim she lacks $177 million to pay one million dollars to the rightful heirs.

They would probably just take it out of all those millions of dollars the U.S. gives them in aid every year.

Salvador · Jan 13, 2020

sooda said:
Wow.. How hateful.

Agreed. I'm hateful of such a terrorist sponsoring nation; I'm hateful to where I'd not spend any money there that'd end up helping support the Iranian militant Quds force designated by Canada as being terrorists.

Salvador · Jan 13, 2020

Stanyon said:
They would probably just take it out of all those millions of dollars the U.S. gives them in aid every year.

I was just wondering about that, if Iran had already spent all that Obama granted money on their terrorist Quds force militant activities.

sooda · Jan 13, 2020

Stanyon said:
They would probably just take it out of all those millions of dollars the U.S. gives them in aid every year.

How much foreign aid does the US pay Iran?

Salvador · Jan 13, 2020

sooda said:
How much foreign aid does the US pay Iran?

The U.S. had kept some money ( c.a. $1.3 billion worth ) away from Iran in order to cripple Iran's funding of its terrorist Quds force Islamic militant activities, then Obama came along and allowed Iran to get this money.

U.S. paid $1.3 billion to Iran two days after cash delivery

sooda · Jan 13, 2020

Salvador said:
The U.S. had kept some money ( c.a. $1.7 billion worth ) away from Iran in order to cripple Iran's funding of its terrorist Quds force Islamic militant activities, then Obama came along and allowed Iran to get this money.

You aren't very well informed..

Salvador · Jan 13, 2020

sooda said:
You aren't very well informed..

Sorry about the typo, I corrected the amount from 1.7 to 1.3, and I added CBS News reference citation.

Stanyon · Jan 13, 2020

Salvador said:
Sorry about the typo, I corrected the amount from 1.7 to 1.3, and I added CBS News reference citation.

Wonder how many people in the U.S. that money could have helped?

stvdv · Jan 13, 2020

Evangelicalhumanist said:
Can't help but notice how little coverage the shooting down of Ukraine Flight 752 is getting in the U.S. But then, of course, no American's died, so what's the big deal, eh?

Not something to be proud of and blast into the world as "You all see what I did?", unless your name is D.Trump of course.

stvdv · Jan 13, 2020

Evangelicalhumanist said:
But here's the thing: The Trump administration undertook the assassination of Iranian General Suleiman, and Iran's (bloodless) retaliation, Iran was on very high alert, and that is the proximate cause of the shooting down of a plane that cost 57 Canadian lives, along with a lot of Ukrainians (also heading to Canada at the same time). And Canada and Ukraine aren't even playing!

To me it's more than obvious that D.Trump created this karma and all that might follow. You can't just drone-out generals in other countries. Period...!!!

BSM1 · Jan 13, 2020

Evangelicalhumanist said:
And did you express regret for all of those lost lives? Or is that not something that figures in your political considerations?

I'm just an atheist, so I have difficulty understanding why I think every life is important, and every unnecessary death should be killing. I haven't the religious training that allows me to ignore that while patting my country on the back.

Except for Trump's life?

Landon Caeli said:
Talking to you is sort of like talking to a wall.

And that's truly being optimistic...

Stanyon · Jan 13, 2020

stvdv said:
Not something to be proud of and blast into the world

It was all over the news

BSM1 · Jan 13, 2020

stvdv said:
To me it's more than obvious that D.Trump created this karma and all that might follow. You can't just drone-out generals in other countries. Period...!!!

Uhhh...yeah, evidently, you can. That's what Soleimani was famous for.

Stanyon · Jan 13, 2020

I love the smell of sanctimonious lies in the morning

Revoltingest · Jan 13, 2020

Stanyon said:
Wonder how many people in the U.S. that money could have helped?

As I recall, it was Iran's money.
It's right for us to return what isn't ours.

stvdv · Jan 13, 2020

Stanyon said:
It was all over the news

Yes, as it should. And I do hope people learned the lesson here to think first before meddling (killing) in other countries.

It's not Wild West story anymore where 1 person shoots 1 person. It's more like 1 person nukes 1 country. Karma blows up in your face before you even realize it.
(Geert Wilders wants another Mo drawing contest. Not even killing someone, but 2 years ago Pakistani Muslims threatened to nuke Netherlands over it).

BSM1 · Jan 13, 2020

stvdv said:
Yes, as it should. And I do hope people learned the lesson here to think first before meddling (killing) in other countries.

It's not Wild West story anymore where 1 person shoots 1 person. It's more like 1 person nukes 1 country. Karma blows up in your face before you even realize it.
(Geert Wilders wants another Mo drawing contest. Not even killing someone, but 2 years ago Pakistani Muslims threatened to nuke Netherlands over it).

So this not the fault of the Iranians?

Stanyon · Jan 13, 2020

stvdv said:
You can't just drone-out generals in other countries. Period...!!!

But we did

Reminds me the other day I forgot my coffee cup at home so I used an empty water bottle for a quick cup because it was what I had. I was told by a younger employee "you can't put coffee in a plastic water bottle!" I held it up, pointed at it and tried to look confused.

stvdv · Jan 13, 2020

stvdv said:
You can't just drone-out generals in other countries. Period...!!!

Stanyon said:
But we did

Reminds me the other day I forgot my coffee cup at home so I used an empty water bottle for a quick cup because it was what I had. I was told by a younger employee "you can't put coffee in a plastic water bottle!" I held it up, pointed at it and tried to look confused.

You can't just

stvdv · Jan 13, 2020

stvdv said:
To me it's more than obvious that D.Trump created this karma and all that might follow. You can't just drone-out generals in other countries. Period...!!!

BSM1 said:
Uhhh...yeah, evidently, you can. That's what Soleimani was famous for.

When I started with Buddhism, I loved the Karma concepts. Justice will prevail (one day). So obviously Soleimani had it coming. He just met Karma

stvdv said:
Yes, as it should. And I do hope people learned the lesson here to think first before meddling (killing) in other countries.

It's not Wild West story anymore where 1 person shoots 1 person. It's more like 1 person nukes 1 country. Karma blows up in your face before you even realize it.
(Geert Wilders wants another Mo drawing contest. Not even killing someone, but 2 years ago Pakistani Muslims threatened to nuke Netherlands over it).

BSM1 said:
So this not the fault of the Iranians?

Probably not the fault of the Iranians (all of them).
Mostly it's what the rich people ruling the world decide
I believe that in every country there are violent people who mess up Peace in the World, just for money or power

I just hope one day this craziness will end.

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