Let's Not Go to War with Iran
Iraq/Iran ... this time will be totally different!
I haven’t been paying much attention to all the fighting in the Middle East, but Trump’s latest hints about America suddenly going to war on Israel’s side against Iran are alarming.
Hopefully, he’s just playing 2-d chess. But still …
We went to war against Iraq in 2003. How’d that work out for us? Not so hot, right?
Iran has twice the population of Iraq (90 million to 45 million).
And it’s not at all like Israel desperately needs our help at the moment.
Lately, Israel has been kicking around most of Iran’s allies in the region, brutally flattening Hama’s Gaza Strip in retribution for the October 7, 2023 atrocities, decapitating Hezbollah in vengeance for 2006 (which was much more of a fair fight on the part of Hezbollah than Hamas’s massacre raid of 2023). The Assad family is gone from next door Syria. Only the Houthis of distant Yemen have resisted well due to the apparent mineshaft gap.
So, Israel started the current war with Iran because it held the upper hand. It has since been taking some lumps in return, so its fans are getting worked up and demanding U.S. intervene on Israel’s side
They hold out the carrot that Israel and America could together overthrow the Iran regime, giving American vengeance for 1979.
And then everybody in the Middle East would live happily ever after. Or something.
C’mon …
What's that colloquial definition of Insanity again?
I don't think the USA should go to war for Iran. But once there is already a war, more like an asswhipping, and the one thing that the USA policy goals requires (no Iran nukes) is easily in our grasp and not in Israel's hands due to lack of those bombers, I think it's insane to not take the easy win of bombing the nuclear facilities and then let Israel finish the job.
Yes I am Jewish. Feel free to attack the messenger instead of the message. But isolationism shouldn't mean not taking easy wins with no obvious downside.