Ten years ago we attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and subsequent years bogged down in counter insurgency and nation building. After Americans are wary of the casualties and costs, not in a mood to attack Iran. It may have been cheap, but US public support was spent five years ago. Add the financial meltdown of 2008, chances for American support for another overseas adventure is nil. The only Americans freaking out are the Jews because their homeland is ground zero for Iranian madness. Rest of America wants our forces home. NOTE: This is not a Ron Paul rant against Jews, but my 2 cents of what I see. Welcome any other opinions.
I never thought that invading Iran was a viable option. Instead, we should have just taken out key infrastructure, including bases and nuclear facilities. That would have beeen relatively cheap and would have sent a strong message that we wouldn’t tolerate them going nuclear—or messing with us in any way.
We could still do some of these things today, but it would be much harder. I’m sure much of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is covert and underground. No doubt we know about most of it, but perhaps not enough.
Iran has been a thorn in our side and their declarations about the destruction of a key ally (Israel) is unacceptable. They need to get spanked—hard. We could set them back decades without one soldier stepping foot on Iranian soil.