Iran War Watch

[QP!]

Trump just gave a long, rambling presser where he told Iran what and when. He said he was going to bomb them back to the Stone Age if they do not take a knee before 8 tomorrow. He informed us that the pilot we saved has never been done before. We have been saving pilots since WW2.

It would take time to count all the 'ultimatums' Trump has given and then not acted on.

And when it comes to war nothing is more devastating than being exposed as making empty threats you won't stand behind.

 

[QP!]

In WW 2 we, well, nobody, tried to rescue pilots and aircrew shot down in enemy territory on any sort of regular basis. Sure, we and virtually every other nation did try and rescue pilots and aircrew lost in neutral or friendly territory. In fact, the Germans went so far as to put these out in the English Channel and N. Sea for their air crew and both sides used them.

In Korea and Vietnam, we KNEW that the other side wasn't going to treat our air crew properly as POW's so we started making some attempt to rescue them from behind enemy lines.

The one notable rescue was done in Yugoslavia were over 100 US aircrew were with friendly partisan groups. The rescue involved building a temporary airfield and planes flown in to take all of them out of the country in one go.

Not just "attempts". Successful recoveries thus Trump was lying again