[chilepepper]

my point is that the insurgents will feel obliged to hit them, much to their chagrin...

[StAnDeliver]

"the flow of weapons from iran will start to dry up because iran will need them in iran as their armies are getting vaporized...my point is that the insurgents will feel obliged to hit them, much to their chagrin..."

A truly salient point -- any return to conventional war overwhelmingly tilts in the US favor; and, as you describe, it's a two-for-one deal -- whatever weakens Iran cripples the insurgents/terrorists in Iraq.