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Originally Posted by Dead Eye
We got our asses handed to us in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let's start shit with a much more powerful nation with nukes now. Saudi Arabia has our back... as witnessed on 9-11-01.
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You couldn't be further from the truth.
In both cases the civilian governments was quickly removed from power and their military forces destroyed.
In Afghanistan a small amount of troops quickly overpowered the Taliban. It wasn't much of a fight.
In the case of Iraq the battle was over with the first strike. It's amazing really. The first strike against Iraq took out their communications hub. The government could't talk to the military and the military couldn't talk to individuals units. The Iraqi military fell apart so quickly that we had to stop to let supplies catch up for the fighting forces.
In both cases military objectives were quickly reached, governments were removed, and military forces were unable to fight. However, what we have now is not a war, it's small groups of fighting forces who refuse to give up and staging a small scale guerrilla war. It's hardly effective; The amount of casualties they are inflicting are very small.
Now back to Iran.... Do the math. Iraq and Iran were in a war for over a decade where no one won. The United States destroyed Iraq in a matter of weeks. The Iranian military would be quickly destroyed. With that said, take a look at a map... Iran is right smack in-between Iraq and Afghanistan. We already have bases and military forces there.
We would destroy Iran from the air before they know what hit them.