re: #228 BishopX

Yup, the gulf won’t be happy about this. On the other hand, while we call Iran the Middle East, they don’t think of themselves as middle eastern. They think of themselves as Persians, and the Arabs can go pound sand. And in the context of a military conflict between the US and Iran the gulf states militaries don’t amount to all that much.

Well, dismantling the Iraqi military left Iran as the big bully on that particular block. Which was one reason we were so palsy-walsy with Saddam for all those years leading up to his opting to invade Kuwait.

Not to mention the previous missile and anti-tanker stuff in the Gulf back in the late 80s. You’d figure that the Iranians learned some lessons there in case there was going to be another round of that since it is essentially their backyard so to speak.