Well, I'll Be Damned. Mobius, Fire Away. We Have It Coming.

[Darius871]

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Darius871


My god, another Arab country and Iran too?

Yeah... ummm... Syria! You know... (Yes, I really should double-check my posts, I meant Muslim not Arab ) Remember back when the warmongers suggested we invade Syria too?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
Yeah... ummm... Syria! You know... (Yes, I really should double-check my posts, I meant Muslim not Arab ) Remember back when the warmongers suggested we invade Syria too?

[SlowwHand]

Syria, taking care of her Iraq, Iran, etc.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


I thought the Nediverse was delusional...

You might want to read up on your hsitory, son.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
You mean the "government" which came into being in a Soviet sponsored coup, and then "asked" the Soviet army to come in before there was even an insurgency of any kind?

Same group, different leader, as had been in power since 1974. The coup was against a leader, not ousting a whole party.

And you remember Brzezinski (or however the **** his name is spelled) taking credit for setting a Soviet trap, funding a minor reactionary uprising against laws freeing women. Yeah, that was a stellar moment on our part, helping bastards re-enslave women.

But hey, thanks for the drugs.

[Deity Dude]

Kuciwalker:

You forgot to show the American arrows coming in from the East from the American bases in Afghanistan, the Southwest from American bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia or the south from American naval assests patrolling the Persian Gulf.

It seems to me that all it would take is a shift in American priorities and an attack on Iran could be done swiftly without much of a buildup. I am not saying this is the correct move. I'm just pointing out that most of the US forces in the world are surrounding Iran right now. And to use a civ IV analogy they all have alot of experience points.

[Ninot]

Yeah, that terrain is just begging to be invaded!

[Deity Dude]

Originally posted by Ninot
Yeah, that terrain is just begging to be invaded!

Far easier than Afghanastan. Besides who said anything about a full-scale invasion.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Deity Dude


Far easier than Afghanastan. Besides who said anything about a full-scale invasion.

Iran has a proper military, with technology from the Russians and a large standing army with favourable terrain and a relatively united population. Yeah, a walk in the park buddy

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Deity Dude


Far easier than Afghanastan. Besides who said anything about a full-scale invasion.

Maybe you should finish in Afghanistan before looking for something "easier"

[Deity Dude]

I never said it would be a walk in the park. I never said an Iranian operation would be easier than Afghanistan, I said the terrain was easier.

All I said was that if the US shifted its priorities from killing leftover Taliban and policing Iraq, to the destruction of Iranian nuclear sites that the US is currently uniquely positioned to do so. It isn't often that just about every frigging active troop is in a country neighboring Iran or being trained to go there. Plus we have been fighting in the region for almost 5 years.

Remember, Iraq was supposedly the #5 military in the world when we fought them. Afganistan had a terrain that every foriegn invader had found impossible. Yet, the actual "wars/overthrow of the regimes" in these countries was really pretty simple. And those 2 operations were done with inexperienced troops that had to be shipped half way around the world to get their. It's been the "policing/nation building" phase that has been painful.

If the US set as its objective the eradication of Iran's nuclear capability and even a round up or forced exile of the general government and did not try to occupy or police the country afterwards, I think this could be accomplished and relatively quickly.

I realize that this would leave a vacuum in Iran and probably piss off alot of other nations. I'm just saying that if the US comes to the conclusion that a Nuclear Iran is such a security threat that it needs to be dealt with, the US could deal with it.

[Provost Harrison]

And you plan to just leave an Iran in tatters?

[Deity Dude]

I personally would prefer an Iran in tatters than one pointing nuclear weapons at Israel and eventually Europe and the US.

[Provost Harrison]

That's nice, destroy a country for a theoretical threat...and do tell, why would they act in such a suicidal manner? They know the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons on another nuclear power - annihilation.