Iran is completely different than Syria. Syria was heading to hit Israel. Israel had to get permission to hit Syria from us. It took months to finally get the permission. It took commandos entering Syrian territory and bringing back radioactive proof before we’d give ‘em permission. Now...what can Israel do to convince us to let them hit Iran? Nothing...If we weren’t in Iraq or the ME...that’d be a different situation. It’d be hard to put up US aircraft and block Israeli aircraft...if we weren’t there. We’ll not be out of Iraq for years. If we hit Iran since it’d be most likely a night attack...then Israel could look like us and be part of those attacks. No one would ever know as in Syria who really hit ‘em.
Right you are. The IDF is more acrobatic/proficient in the area than we are, since they live and thus drill there.