“Iran is 5 times bigger. And we lost 57,000 lives in Vietnam.
Can we afford to lose 250,000 to 300,000 lives in Iran?”
There is no Ho Chi Minh trail for Iran.
“There is no Ho Chi Minh trail for Iran.”
And we’ve learned our lesson about nation building, making the hypothetical irrelevant.
It’s a fool’s errand to try to occupy the whole country and prop up a chosen government.
But that’s what everyone uses to scare away reasoned regime change....er...regime destruction.
Iran doesn’t need a “Ho Chi Minh trail” because there is abundant adjacent friendly territory for support and replenishment.