re: #36 jvic

I have never understood why we invaded a secular Arab state while leaving an Islamist dictatorship untouched next door (not to mention another across the Gulf). What was the grand strategery?

Maybe the plan was that Iran would be shocked and awed into capitulation while we were being strewn with roses and greeted as liberators in Iraq.

Has to do with treaty violations, every single day for 12 years, that made the US and UK look like paper tigers.