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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 05/30/2008 : 12:09:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
| "If the US can only difficultly handle Iraq now, it seems pretty certain that an invasion of Iran would be catastrophic".....and....."Well, the invasion probably wouldn't be catastrophic at all. But the subsequent occupation would be truely horrible." |
The very idea of an occupation of Iran is the most preposterous concept that has appeared here this year. To successfully occupy and control Iran would take vastly more troops than the United States could muster with a full scale draft of all males and females 16 to 60. Fucking North Korea doesn't have enough boots on the ground to occupy Iran! |
I don't think any of us were actually suggesting that the US should try to occupy Iran. But I think we are all in agreement that were the country to attempt to, it would be a really horrible failure. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 05/30/2008 : 14:21:45 [Permalink]
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A horrible failure not only on the ground in Iran, but in relations with the World Community.
And Al-Quaida International(tm) will really see an increase in volunteers...
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2008 : 15:33:28 [Permalink]
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Not to mention; it would contribute to the unification of Sunnite and Shiite against a common enemy.
And; I suspect that, even in the abscence of an actual occupation, the war itself would be more costly than one might hope.
Iran has money and allies; they could put-up a fight, even from a conventional military point of view.
Sure they would quickly be defeated but, it would probably require more time and human life than the public opinion is used to nowadays. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Subject: MILITARY DEATHS FOR TWENTY SIX YEARS
