While there are a lot of war hawks in the GOP that wanted a war with Iran for Christmas, I’d hope that the sponsors of AIPAC came from a brighter sort, or at least were advised by think tanks enough to know how bad an idea war with Iran is.
The GOP hawks want a full-on invasion and regime change (more puppet-dictator than democracy, still, but certainly not the Islamic republic that is in place right now.) But that would involve a level of commitment akin to the what we saw with the Vietnam war, including conscription (id est the Draft), and that would be super unpopular in the states and would poison the US armed forces from within.
Prior presidents, including Republican ones didn’t push into Iran because all down the line our intelligence sector has been iterating how really-really bad an idea it is.
So when Trump did it, we quickly learned it was a bad idea. Who knew!? ( Narrator: Everybody. Everybody knew.)
But since Trump is in office, our government is currently immune to the advice of its intelligence officers. We may invade Iran with full boots on the ground, and we may invade Cuba. We may do both together and then watch in horror as China invades Taiwan, and the US is too overextended to do a thing.
As per the George W. Bush years, anything can happen.
Long since passed, but that would require congress to actually do something (impossible).
You’re not gonna get much when you ask literal traitors to protect their nation.
Half of Congress is bought off by AIPAC who wants this war. If Trump were getting his ass handed to him this badly in Somalia, we’d be out by now.
While there are a lot of war hawks in the GOP that wanted a war with Iran for Christmas, I’d hope that the sponsors of AIPAC came from a brighter sort, or at least were advised by think tanks enough to know how bad an idea war with Iran is.
The GOP hawks want a full-on invasion and regime change (more puppet-dictator than democracy, still, but certainly not the Islamic republic that is in place right now.) But that would involve a level of commitment akin to the what we saw with the Vietnam war, including conscription (id est the Draft), and that would be super unpopular in the states and would poison the US armed forces from within.
Prior presidents, including Republican ones didn’t push into Iran because all down the line our intelligence sector has been iterating how really-really bad an idea it is.
So when Trump did it, we quickly learned it was a bad idea. Who knew!? ( Narrator: Everybody. Everybody knew.)
But since Trump is in office, our government is currently immune to the advice of its intelligence officers. We may invade Iran with full boots on the ground, and we may invade Cuba. We may do both together and then watch in horror as China invades Taiwan, and the US is too overextended to do a thing.
As per the George W. Bush years, anything can happen.