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Poking the bear won't turn out well for Iran.
Ask Saddam Hussein.
Ask Muammar Gaddafi.
Because those wars went so well. Iran has a population of almost 90 million compared to Iraq’s 2003 population of 27 million or so and Libya’s was like 6 million before that war. And those only created more instability. There’s not usually a winner in a war in the modern era.
I’m an American and, emotionally, I obviously get the desire to retaliate for the attacks but a real war with Iran would be catastrophic. It would probably weaken America in the long run. As bad as these tit-for-tat strikes are, we’re better off supporting Iranian protesters than taking aggressive military action.
The Saudi and UAE oil fields would be set alight overnight.
People don't seem to realise that the various Iran supported militias throughout the Middle East have been holding back.
It has been low level skirmishes on the Lebanon border with Israel, the Houthi blockade of Israeli shipping and drone attacks throughout the middle east with US retaliation strikes.
This would escalate very quickly and the damage to the world economy, America and its allies would be immense.
Not saying Iran and their allies wouldn't feel any pain but it's a lose / lose for everyone.
Yep between the mountainous terrain and Iran's advanced missile program it'd be a disaster. If a president got involved in a war like that, the opposition party might end up with 70 senate seats instead of the 60 the dems got after the Iraq war fell apart.
ETA: the other problem is that Iran has a much, much stronger central government than Iraq or Libya did in terms of control over the population.
It was only a few months ago that that population was risking their lives in the streets to protest the ruling regime.
Could do a few strikes on the leadership and leave the rest in the hands of the people.
Problem with this is external threats can solidify the regime’s hold.