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Originally Posted by dculkin
 I'm no military expert, but I doubt that it is as simple as that.
What do you propose, heavy bombardment? Followed by what?
I can't believe we are having this conversation. Are people in this country really serious about starting a war with Iran? I don't mean to be disrespectful, but that seems completely insane to me.
aklim and hatterasguy are talking about nuclear war in the Middle East as if that might be a pretty cool thing, just to see what happens over there. Are you guys serious about that? |
I never said we should go to war with Iran, the ability to and actualy doing it are two different things. However the ability to, makes the threat real and is very usefull, in this case more usefull than actualy using it.
I have for quite a few years now viewed Iran as a problem that will eventualy solve itself. As Bot said the people are pretty liberal and forward thinking, and not big fans of the currant government. All this smoke from the currant guys in power is a bid to unit the people to deflect crap from them. If we do something dumb like drop bombs they win, if we do what Obama wants and start talking to the currant nut jobs we piss the people of Iran off. We have the luxury of time on our side, they don't, as the older generation dies off the call for change is going to get louder.
Iran is a problem best solved with political and maybe some economic pressure, and possible in the future some CIA and $$$ aid to the right group. IMHO the worst thing we can do other than drop bombs on them is try to be friendly with the currant nut jobs in power. That would really piss the people off, as we have seen and done before in this area of the world. No we need to keep pissing them off and letting them go down this path. They have no intention of actualy shooting anything.
IMHO all we need to do with Iran is sit back and poke at the currant government for the next 20 years until it falls apart. Than get friendly with the more moderate government that replaces them.