Our country has never seemed to learn the lesson. We can bomb a country into the stone age, but we can't win a war, or even force submission that way.
Air superiority, no matter how impressive, can't achieve anything more than big fireworks displays on its own. There aren't enough rockets and missiles and bombs in our entire arsenal to wipe out every Iranian installation, institution, and beligerant.
And the cost is ruinous to our empire. Billion dollar vessels launching hundreds of million dollars planes firing millions of dollars armaments, with all the billions in logistical spending it takes to keep them there, for what?
To knock down a 20k concrete bunker and some inbred third world zealots? We will run out of missles before they run out of bunkers and zealots.
This is not how you prosecute a war. You can debate whether or not we SHOULD be at war with Iran, but we either needed to do it properly, with committed ground forces, or never have gotten involved in the first place.
There is no lesson-learning going on here. It is optics before the world: no one but Trump could have given Iran the most generous opportunity for a negotiated peace. Now, Trump has a free hand. This has utterly de-legitimized the Iranian regime and justifies whatever happens next.
This is called giving your opponent enough rope to hang himself. You just have to be patient while he figures out how to tie the knot.
I agree 100%, this should end quickly. The cost is very high and mounting rapidly. Either get in fully and get out or dont go at all. All this dinking around about talks and ceasefire is costing a whole lot of benjis
On what scale is the "cost very high"? These are forces that would be paid salaries and maintenance if they were doing nothing. The few that have been lost as part of the operation pale beside the hundreds lost in big city murderous weekends, over which no one spares any concern.
Meanwhile, consider the "cost" of a nuke hitting a city. Cost was always the fake objection against strategic defense. No one was pricing out the cost of millions dead and the reconstruction of an attacked city. This used to be my working business, and I am rather happy that Iran has no present or impending capability to attack anyone with a nuclear weapon. I think that has already been well worth the investment and risk.
Maybe pull out completely and then go in terminate all scum one by one with drones. Isn't that what Ukraine is claiming to use to apparently gain the upper hand with Russia.
Our country has never seemed to learn the lesson. We can bomb a country into the stone age, but we can't win a war, or even force submission that way.
Air superiority, no matter how impressive, can't achieve anything more than big fireworks displays on its own. There aren't enough rockets and missiles and bombs in our entire arsenal to wipe out every Iranian installation, institution, and beligerant.
And the cost is ruinous to our empire. Billion dollar vessels launching hundreds of million dollars planes firing millions of dollars armaments, with all the billions in logistical spending it takes to keep them there, for what?
To knock down a 20k concrete bunker and some inbred third world zealots? We will run out of missles before they run out of bunkers and zealots.
This is not how you prosecute a war. You can debate whether or not we SHOULD be at war with Iran, but we either needed to do it properly, with committed ground forces, or never have gotten involved in the first place.
There is no lesson-learning going on here. It is optics before the world: no one but Trump could have given Iran the most generous opportunity for a negotiated peace. Now, Trump has a free hand. This has utterly de-legitimized the Iranian regime and justifies whatever happens next.
This is called giving your opponent enough rope to hang himself. You just have to be patient while he figures out how to tie the knot.
I agree 100%, this should end quickly. The cost is very high and mounting rapidly. Either get in fully and get out or dont go at all. All this dinking around about talks and ceasefire is costing a whole lot of benjis
On what scale is the "cost very high"? These are forces that would be paid salaries and maintenance if they were doing nothing. The few that have been lost as part of the operation pale beside the hundreds lost in big city murderous weekends, over which no one spares any concern.
Meanwhile, consider the "cost" of a nuke hitting a city. Cost was always the fake objection against strategic defense. No one was pricing out the cost of millions dead and the reconstruction of an attacked city. This used to be my working business, and I am rather happy that Iran has no present or impending capability to attack anyone with a nuclear weapon. I think that has already been well worth the investment and risk.
Maybe pull out completely and then go in terminate all scum one by one with drones. Isn't that what Ukraine is claiming to use to apparently gain the upper hand with Russia.