re: #744 marjoriemoon

I think we DID know how effective out tactics were. Very much so! There were other reasons for going into Iraq that wouldn’t have been so easily justified. Mainly to set ourselves down plop in the middle of the Arab world. I’m not totally against that, actually, but it’s not a legitimate reason to go to war. There had to be a threat, so we made one :(

If we could interrupt, as you say, the Iranian program, set it back maybe 10 years or more, maybe the Iranian people would have time to rise up and throw out their government. It’s a big dream, but it would be ideal.

Yes, I agree the Iraq situation is different from Iran and Saddam was a significant evil in and of himself. In Iran’s case there is no need for a significant invasion. Let them carry on with their own affairs, we just insist they stop building nuclear and missile stuff, and wreck what they have now.

This could be done with minimal casualties. All with ultimatums and warnings like the Israelis do. We don’t have to punish them by destroying their refinery or embargoing petrol unless they refuse to cooperate, and even in that case, it is only necessary to damage the electricity plant used by the actual facility, not the whole country.

Followed by a decade of air oversight and the Iranians can sort out their own politics.

This one should be defused before it gets out of hand.