[dp0622]

Yeah what’s more plausible?

That Iran wants a war with THE UNITED STATES?

Or we are being sucked into another war to fight for the Sauds.

Hell we’ve been their bitch forever, even let their role in 9/11, which killed 3000 and a few friends, slide.

Destroy them from the air and don’t put ONE BOY on that sand!

[proust]

Rockets in the middle east? I'm shocked, shocked! Babies thrown out incubators was a better Neocon tale.

[grey_whiskers]

Destroy them from the air and don’t put ONE BOY on that sand!

BUFFs (B-52s) had standoff capability in the 1980s, if Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising is to be trusted.

[Zhang Fei]

[Yeah what’s more plausible?
That Iran wants a war with THE UNITED STATES?
Or we are being sucked into another war to fight for the Sauds.]

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Nobody wants war. What people want is the fruits of victory. If the Iranians can expel Uncle Sam from the region, take over the Arabian peninsula, including the oilfields where 40% of the world’s oil is produced and add 50m to the ranks of military age men for future operations, with just a few commando raids, it’s worth the gamble. This is especially the case, since the oil blockade, coupled with decades of deprivation means the mullahs may be on the verge of being overthrown and slaughtered. Besides, it’s not clear that Trump would ever invade Iran. Does someone inclined to remove the few thousand troops in-country in Afghanistan and Iraq seem like he has any stomach for an invasion of Iran, given that such an operation would involve hundreds of thousands of troops, just before a hotly contested election?

[Zathras]

The Left wants us to be sucked into another war.
It is the last weapon they have to bring down Trump.

[Paul R.]

What Iran wants is nukes. Why? Because they want to dominate Islam politically and religiously. They (the mullahs) are the true way. (/s)

Everything else flows from that desire for domination.

They calculate that the West will tire, and they have no problem working on it for ANOTHER 1000 years if necessary, taking heavy losses along the way. Martyrs, you know.

As for the Saudis, they have their nuts, just as we do. Is AOC “America”, in the bigger picture? James Comey? (We better hope not!)

Realistically though, it’s global need for Saudi (etc.) oil, more than the Saudis themselves, that drives that side of the equation.

OTOH, I rather doubt ground action by US forces is needed, unless there are facilities just too deep & well protected for even our best bunker-busters.

[Socon-Econ]

Why are we inching toward a war with Iran while we are fleeing from confronting a communist dictator of Venezuela who operates closer to our own backyard?

[TarasBulbous]

This. The American People don’t want any more of this BS.