What the U.S. has done in the Middle East in the previous 25 years would have been akin to America, in the 1940s, warring against the Axis powers and their allies piecemeal - i.e., first engaging in a long and costly war against the Rumanians, and then against the Italians, and then against Japanese, etc.
Maybe what was needed was to address the issue head-on, and re-order the entire region in one fell swoop.
Regards,
Surely we have capability to covertly exact retribution for this attack on our assets?
Perhaps a team of SEALs tasked to sink a couple of Iranian ships. Iran wants a conflict to regain support it has lost from its own citizens. The sanctions are biting them pretty hard and they can’t any longer use their oil wsca weapon.
Like cornered rats they are lashing out. We must extract pmt for the destruction of the drone but it must be done quietly.
Conflict with Iran would not result in a ‘quagmire’.
There would be no shooting war on the ground; nor adequate time for shock and awe.
Don’t worry about it.
You are right on this one. Let the french fight for their own gas pipelines in iran.
I do think 10 thousand illegals entering every month is more unpopular than a war. 10k free bus and plane tickets. 10 thousand taxpayer paid vacations and health care. Not you or your kids... non citizens.
Nothing?
Not even an Iranian nuke sitting in a nice Bertram yacht tied up at the Capital Yacht Club in DC? Or a similar marina in NYC?
Dems would try to use it as propaganda against pres. Trump, but I think most people would understand that Iran is the aggressor and we just couldn’t let them get away with it, because then they do worse things, potentially even nuke us, the USA.
John Kerry pulled the trigger himself.