7/23/18

SecDef and Military Industrial Complex Face MOAB with Iran

In the lead up to the Iraq war President Saddam Hussein threatened the Mother of All Battles would follow U.S. military regime change intervention in his nation. History shows that the battle was something of a dud and it was the victory that was costly with nearly a decade of lavish no-bid military contracts by the Bush administration and some thousands of casualties to garrison the nation during a civil war. Iranian President Rouhani also threatened a MOAB if the U.S. gets geographical too close,  needlessly for there really isn't or wasn't an intention or build up to war on Iran.


The United States may have a certain built up inventory of arms that some military-industrial people might like to spend so they can sell or buy as the case may be, newer and costlier stuff. Iran's President should not incite or feed the beast of war with threats that basically are empty-in case he doesn't really know. The technical capacity of the military sector of the United States is quite a bit better than Iran's in quantity and quality. It's air defenses would last a couple of day, and its forces would be minimized in a few days from a variety of technical avenues. 

Personally I would like Iranian-American relations to go back to the pre-Shah basis of reasonable amicability or at least non-belligerancy, yet the U.S.A. hasn't had well balanced leaders since the Reagan administration although President Trump is trying. President Rouhani could actually serve a useful measure for progress if he could keep in mind the difficulty any administration has in presenting a broad-spectrum fairness with the traditional constellation of enemies or semi-enemies these days. SecDef Blumpayo shouldn't go out of his way to antagonize people even if he is well-connected.


While President Obama gave Iran quite a lot he blasted the heck out of other U.S. foreign relations problematic nations fairly aggressively-as in Libya and Syria causing great loss of life and political instability. It is good to have zero mass war and civilian casualties rather than protracted budget sapping conflicts. The U.S. Government doesn't seem to care so much about spending a half trillion or so on a war; the Iraq war in the log run cost about 3 trillion dollars.

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