sycasey said:Big C said:
oski003, let's cut to the chase: Are you generally in favor of what President Trump has done in Iran this year? And what should we do now, going forward?
I believe I've made my position clear: I'm not really against seeing their military capabilities degraded, but everything about what we've done there has been one blunder after another.
I return to my Iraq comparison: yes, the world was probably better off without Saddam Hussein, but no, taking him out was not worth the cost.
Iran right now is a very similar situation.
Compare it to Iraq, to Vietnam, to whatever. It's the same old story. We attack another country without sufficient cause, then we get caught in a quagmire there because we don't want to leave with our tails between our legs.
We inflict significant damage to the other country, but they're still more motivated to hang in there because it's happening in their own country and people there, who might not have hated us before, hate us now because we're attacking them.
There were a few decades when it seemed we had learned our lesson from Vietnam, but we apparently have a short memory.
