Olorin0222
Maia
Red Stranger said:Iran is different from Iraq in that the elect that crazy guy. While I feel sympathy for the Iraqis who suffer in the hands of Saddam, I don't feel the same for people who elect an idiot.Phlegmak said:Dude, it's like you don't even read your own posts. Your last sentence is perfectly applicable to yourself.
Maybe Red Stranger, like me, does not feel America elected an idiot leader.
In response to an earlier post on how air strikes do not work: In the past, their have been instances of air strikes being succesful. Reagan's bombing of Qadafi's palace in Libya turned Qadafi into a reformed citizen on the world stage. More recently, the bombing in Kosovo led to a political revitalization as the youth threw out the old dictatorship of Milosevic.
I do not believe this current President would ever launch a first strike with nuclear weapons. I also believe that the deployment of land forces, except as peacekeepers in a post-Ayatollah Iran, is out of the question. Another exception could be the use of Delta Force/SAS style elite trrops to apprehend mullahs and such from mosques. I could easily see precision strikes against the leadership of Iran. The U.S. would at least try to keep the population neutral by not bombing mosques and other public places.