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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy";p="
Just because you think that Iran is not allowed to have any national interests is not going to make it so.
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Do you have any idea what you're talking about, or are you just spewing up random comments in order to appear intelligent? I stated what Iran's interests were (they are the same basic interests as every other nation on Earth) and in response you say that I think Iran has no interests?
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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy";p="
Attacking an enemy in any way possible especially with well tried successful tactics??
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So, what you're saying is that if Iran employs guerrilla tactics against an American aerial campaign, they will be successful? Do you even realise how absurd that is? What are they going to do: hide half a million soldiers with AK-47s among civilians and try shoot down an F-22 Raptor?
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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy";p="
I also noticed that the US are not winning, even with an enormous naval deployment in the Persian gulf, in Iraq just losing slowly. And I noticed Turkey getting sucked in to the Kurdish region.
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Did you also notice that has no relevance at all to the topic we're discussing, or did that escape you?
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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy";p="
Yep Iran has got the retaliatory stikes by surrogate hezbollah.
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Hezbollah is a bug. Israel employed around 5% of its military and airforce in the previous war. If it comes down to a Mid-East war, you can rest assured Hezbollah will be devastated by the end of it.
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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy";p="
Well I'm looking out for my interests.
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That's nice, but again, not relevant in a political discussion in which we must consider the interests of the nations involved. I don't see what bearing your interests have on the decisions made by the United States or Iran.
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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy";p="
So first you need a Democratic Iran before bombing it.
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Originally Posted by MenB";p="
Is that what I said? Nope.
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Did I say you said that; no.
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Originally Posted by MenB";p="
The Iranian government WOULD NOT BE TOPPLED BY AN AMERICAN BOMBING CAMPAIGN, BECAUSE AMERICA HAS NO INTEREST IN TOPPLING THE IRANIAN REGIME (I bolded that to make sure you don't miss it this time). What I said was that the campaign needs to be relatively quick so as to cause minimal civilian casualties among Iranians.
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Originally Posted by ashleykennedy";p="
You might want a quick war but Iran may have other plans.
Someone who doesn't take the plans and abilities of their enemy into account is call "the loser".
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The war can be as long as it wants (I'm assuming you're referring to a greater Mid-East war), but as long as the American operation itself is short it will have the support of the pro-Western youth.