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Not sure if you people have already discussed this, but last week there was a bit of a stir over this article in the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/war-with-iran-is-probably-our-best-option/2015/03/13/fb112eb0-c725-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html

Where a neo-con writer insists that invading Iran is a far better idea than sanctions and diplomacy. Said writer insists it wouldn't even be that hard. Just a little aerial campaign to bomb their reactors and associated infrastructure. A cakewalk if you will...

What do you people think? Good idea or not? Should I start training for the draft?

No. There easy answer

not at all, that will escalate into a full scale nuclear war

Land and Freedom wrote:Not sure if you people have already discussed this, but last week there was a bit of a stir over this article in the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/war-with-iran-is-probably-our-best-option/2015/03/13/fb112eb0-c725-11e4-a199-6cb5e63819d2_story.html

Where a neo-con writer insists that invading Iran is a far better idea than sanctions and diplomacy. Said writer insists it wouldn't even be that hard. Just a little aerial campaign to bomb their reactors and associated infrastructure. A cakewalk if you will...

What do you people think? Good idea or not? Should I start training for the draft?

And then Iran retaliates, and America's diplomatic credibility gets even more fucked than it already is. Fuck that.

No with a capital NO

No, I don't think going to war with Iran is a good option..

It's probably our worst option, actually.

Fuck yeah! Vietnam 2.0 3.0!

Kelinfort wrote:Fuck yeah! Vietnam 2.0 3.0!

Nah, I prefer that the folks in DC let the military do its job and not strangle them with ROE.

A war with Iran will not only be very costly, but also disastrous. When fighting a war against a country like the US, Iran will need a lot of weapons and Russia and China are there to supply the need. Also, this will give legitimacy to Iran's calls for the destruction of America and might force Iran to have a temporary alliance with ISIS to fight the United States before they go back to killing each other.

The 502nd SS wrote:

Kelinfort wrote:Fuck yeah! Vietnam 2.0 3.0!

Nah, I prefer that the folks in DC let the military do its job and not strangle them with ROE.

"And I say, Vietnam now, Vietnam tomorrow, Vietnam forever!"

-President George Wallace.

The US might've actually managed to get away with invading Iran if the Iraq war didn't happen. But it is too late now. Iran has been strengthened from Saddam being removed from power and Iraq is now in Iran's sphere of influence. Russia or China wouldn't be likely to ignore a third major US invasion of another nation, I can see either or both sending arms to Iran by proxy.

If I had it my way, George W. Bush would've invaded Iran instead. Saddam could've been kept contained in exchange for taking out his regional rival.

Neues Nationalsozialistiches Reich wrote:A war with Iran will not only be very costly, but also disastrous. When fighting a war against a country like the US, Iran will need a lot of weapons and Russia and China are there to supply the need. Also, this will give legitimacy to Iran's calls for the destruction of America and might force Iran to have a temporary alliance with ISIS to fight the United States before they go back to killing each other.

I can't see Iran and ISIS forming any sort of accord at all to be honest.

Saiwania wrote:The US might've actually managed to get away with invading Iran if the Iraq war didn't happen. But it is too late now. Iran has been strengthened from Saddam being removed from power and Iraq is now in Iran's sphere of influence. Russia or China wouldn't be likely to ignore a third major US invasion of another nation, I can see either or both sending arms to Iran by proxy.

If I had it my way, George W. Bush would've invaded Iran instead. Saddam could've been kept contained in exchange for taking out his regional rival.

You're probably right. The CIA was supporting Saddam's Iraq ever since the Islamic Revolution IIRC. The military industrial complex should stop switching horses.

When you wear the White Hat, you have to let the other guy throw the first punch.

Who do you want to be America?

their is no justification for invading iran in the first place. america is the aggressor.

Sure it would be simple to just bomb the nuclear reactors, that is if Iranian's air defense isn't beefed up by Russia covertly.

But bombing nuclear reactors is just a recipe for a nuclear incident which could contaminate parts of Iran and possibly other nations depending on the winds.

Hell no.

We should not cause multiple possibly Chernobyl type disasters simply because of the deluded idiotic ravings of the current Israeli Administration who's own intelligence department disagrees with.

War should not be an option. America first!

No, it's the worst option. Really better hope that Hillary wins next year, because Republicans in their blind obsession with attacking Obama and making Israel a partisan issue have pretty much guaranteed it will be our only option if they get into power and screw up everything Russia, China and our European allies have been trying to do.

Wouldn’t an attack cause ordinary Iranians to rally behind the regime? Perhaps, but military losses have also served to undermine regimes, including the Greek and Argentine juntas, the Russian czar and the Russian communists.

Biggest red flag right there
Fav brecher quote

Here’s a little tip for you future cannon fodder: if your commander’s plan ever includes the line, “…and then the people will rise up and join us,” you get out of there any way you can, because you’re going to be slaughtered.

He layed out the case pretty good. I agree with him, if war is the only option to stop the Iranian nuclear program, which seems to be the case, we shouldn't hesitate.

No don't go to war with Iran HAMAS needs them.

These neocons need to learn that Iran =/= Iraq by a LONG shot. Iraq was mostly flat terrain, bordering three of our allies with numerous areas for re-supply, located close enough to the Persian Gulf to allow missile and airstrikes on a regular basis. Iran is a whole other world compared to that. It has mountains and plateaus popping up instantly from the Persian Gulf, Tehran itself is nestled in a mountain range far away from any area where the US and her allies could stage an invasion, and has a varied terrain of desert, forests, scrub land, and the like.

Drumming up support for a war that'll finally break the US, how delightful.

We need to LEAVE the middle-east entirely. That is our best option.

Vilatania wrote:We need to LEAVE the middle-east entirely. That is our best option.

That's the genocide option,