War with Iran alone would have made the whole presidency a nightmare. McCain's stimulus would have been a tax cut for the rich. Worked real well before.
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War with Iran alone would have made the whole presidency a nightmare. McCain's stimulus would have been a tax cut for the rich. Worked real well before.
People refer to "war with Iran" which isn't quite how I see it.
War is waged between countries that are somewhat evenly matched. Our scenario with Iran would be more accurately characterized as us attacking them and then coping with whatever small responses they might be capable of, attacks on Gulf shipping, maybe lobbing a few missiles at Israel etc. It wouldn't be a war because it would be over quickly. I think the theocracy in Iran is ripe for being overthrown with a little help.
We can thank heavens somebody like you is not Commander-in-Chief.
The reason even Bush administration never touched Iran is because it is a tougher nut to crack than Iraq was (or Libya for that matter). Better air defense systems, more missilies, bigger army, etc. It is not that US can't defeat Iran it is at what cost and what level of panic would it cause for financial markets. Iranians are not simple people. They are willing to die in large numbers. "Blood fountains" and large numbers of people charging machine gun emplacements during Iran-Iraq war should tell you that.
US is not in a position to launch a serious war at the moment, and realistically, not going to be any time soon(and everybody knows it).
That is simply factually inaccurate.
The russians withheld sale of advanced integrated defense systems to Tehran in exchange for our withdrawing our proposed missile defense from Poland and Czechoslovakia. You don't think we didn't get something for cancelling that program did you?
If the Iranians want to charge Abrams and Bradleys in little white pickup trucks that is fine, we already have lots of practice shooting little white pickup trucks.
Iran won't be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, even Obama isn't so stupid as to allow that to happen. Might as well overturn the theocracy while we're there. A democratic Iran alongside a democratic Iraq would be a good thing for the whole region.
You are hopeless that is all.
Stalin inherited USSR which was devstated by a Civil War and consequences of LOSING WWI and a poor agrarian nation, he left it a superpower, victor in WWII, with thermonuclear weapons to boot. Regardless of what you may think about it, Stalin propelled USSR to heights it never seen before. Russia to this day enjoys things that were won under Stalin.
Luke eventually calls most of us a racist.