Are you kidding me Hippie, other countries fly drones to monitor US, they send spies, when has the USA ever "started" anything? We have however bombed and shot up several places only after "they" started it. Name ALL the poking you speak of, please.

This happens all the time, all over the world. We and others intercept them, not shoot them down.

In Iran, specifically, 1953. Look at the US involvement in the overthrowing of Mosaddegh.

Hippie... not sure if you know this or not but Iran kind of hates America. They would love nothing more than to bomb every inch of this soil. Did you miss the videos of them chanting death to America?
I don’t think it’s poking and poking but more like keeping our eyes on our enemy.

Some things may seem unnecessary to you but a lot of what’s done is very needed.

you mean they might say something like we should bomb the shucks out of them and turn them into a glowing parking lot?

We know they don't like us, but the "why" is equally (if not more) important. If there is a reason (which I believe there has been since '53), perhaps we can move forward in a manner that reduces the hate that currently exists.

2 old adages come to mind:
- Good fences make good neighbors (recognizing the "fence" is simply the means by keeping your nose in your own business)
- Do unto others as you would have them do to unto you.


**I'll graciously bow out of this thread now.**

With the Russians we monitor them for signals intel and escort their bits back away from our airspace. Nothing new with foreign hostile powers parking nuke subs off our coast and listening to our decadent rock and roll music while running launch drills.

That's what we said. Regardless it was a 100 million dollar machine. That is half of the GDP of our state in 2018.

The Jews did it

Wars make a lot of big businesses a LOT of money.

Yes, we purposefully flew our drone right over their waters and almost right over their land in order to (a) test their capabilities and (b) to provoke
a response.

It is fair game for them to shoot down our drone under those circumstances, just as it would be fair game to shoot down their
drone if they did the same thing to us.

The Persian Gulf isn't our problem and the oil rich countries of the Gulf who ship oil out of there along with the countries who
are buying it should be paying to keep the Gulf open, not the U.S.

But why do that when you have the biggest sucker of them all with the most money and biggest military to do your work for you for free?

Hippie it goes back to Muslims hate Chtristians. It's in their Koran to kill al infidels. They meddle , we meddle. They might not be so groggy if the O hadn't sent them so much cash and where did all that money come from?

You actually believe that????????????????????????????????????????????????

and you actually believe a bunch of muslim child molesters?????

Big ears or hitlery would have already sent them another plane full of $$$$$$$$$$

Didn't know the thread was about child molesters.
That was an incredibly dumb thing to say.
My anti-Islam credentials are impeccable.

And under the circumstances of what has been reported and not reported so far - I would tend to believe that our drone
was flying over their waters and practically over their land as a test of their capabilities. That is a common military tactic - to probe, poke and test.

>>>>>>and to create an EXCUSE to start a war>>>>>>>>that is what Bolton and the Globalist Neocons want.
And what Saudi Arabia wants. And Israel too.

Exactly

Exactly. We been getn played for years

Exactly

Dude you are fing clueless on what happens on when it pertains to the military both red and blue. We don't start Jack shucks. If anything we protect the lives of the chicken shits in the other countries that won't do anything. Fact check...Iran has flown drones all over Afghanistan to monitor us. Russia flies collection manned platforms all around Alaska. They have also been in Syria for two reasons: practice using their new crap and collect on us. China flys collection aircraft all around Guam. This isn't even taking into account the many many boats as well. All of our adversary countries have drones. You don't hear about us shooting them down.

Also the UAV they shot down is the size of a 737 when it pertains to radio cross section. So why the f would they shoot at something that looked like a potential airliner? Now i am certain they knew what they were shooting at because if it was manned there wouldn't be all this on TV about what our next move would be. It would already be in motion.

Saying we poke and prod is utter bs. That's exactly what Iran has been doing to us. Seeing how far they could push until we react. I can promise you they will not like the response. They will have a lot more to worry about than sanctions.

Last but not least....do us all a favor...change your name from hippiekiller to hippielover!!! Your probably an ex Obama supporter and love Bernie Sanders.