[LibLieSlayer]

General McInerny will be releasing an op ed tomorrow (I believe) that will lay out how easily we can take iran out of the equation.

People I know that KNOW say we are not as thin as our enemies like to believe. People forget that this Military was developed to fight a large scale two front war. Iraq and Afghanistan combined do not drain near as much as one large scale warfront, "cold war style". We have plenty of punch to get any job done.

LLS

[sit-rep]

I sure hope you're correct...

[familyop]

"People I know that KNOW say we are not as thin as our enemies like to believe."

Yes. We avoid publicizing any numbers near our real strength these days, but a very small part of our forces are in Iraq and Afghanistan--far less than 1/10th.

I'll put it this way. About three of our carrier groups could secure China, naval-wise, and we have about a dozen, IIRC.

[Old_Mil]

People I know that KNOW say we are not as thin as our enemies like to believe.

I'm not saying that we're thin militarily, or that we won't be able to take out the Iranian military in short order. That's a given. However, what preparations that Iran has made for a counterstrike could be problematic.

Since 9-11 we have allowed 500,000 new Muslims to emigrate legally to the United States, this is in addition to the thousands that have crossed the southern border illegally and have gone underground.

It is entirely possible that the reason Iran's president is being so bold in his proclamations is that they already have a sizeable strike force within our borders with orders to strike out at our civilian populace through conventional or nuclear means should we strike Iran.