the Iranians and others will recognize Pres Trump’s hatred of actual war.
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I’m not really worried about that because few others have the means to wage actual war, and everyone knows that the USA has lots of means to take out a leader or a country that do not involve a shooting war.
Asymmetric gorilla warfare is the bugaboo. The US has been baited into a couple of those wars since WWII. They all end badly. Trump knows this. He knows it’s a win for the mullahs if the USA puts boots on the ground there, and the mullahs get to have their own gorilla war with the USA.
That’s the war the USA needs to avoid.
Its ‘guerilla’
There’s not a lot we can do to Iran besides aerial attack. Tehran is what 700 km from the the Gulf or Arabian Sea. We’re not doing a Maduro replay. There’s also a considerable mountain chain between the sea and Tehran.
So do we throw a few more Bunker Busters or just sign on to a slightly better deal than Barky got. Either way the President still has to sleep at night knowing the 1,000s who were killed as he said “ help is coming!” I’m guessing he will sleep just fine.