Comments on: Why Europe will never let Iran get bombed… https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=9780 The Blog of BartCop.com Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: RS Janes https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=9780&cpage=1#comment-46776 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:55:01 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/2010/07/15/why-europe-will-never-let-iran-get-bombed/#comment-46776 There’s another thing Iran has that our previous ‘victims for liberty’ in the Middle East didn’t — a functioning and technologically sophisticated army, navy and air force. With a population of just over 74 million, with most Iranians under 40, and an ability to call up 70 percent for service of about 32 million males in a crisis (women would not serve under Sharia law), our forces, just over 2 million worldwide, would be fighting tens of millions of very pissed-off Iranians armed with Exocet and other deadly missiles; F-16s and French Mirage jets; advanced tanks and anti-aircraft equipment; submarines, and a small but lethal surface navy. In a military exercise a decade ago, US forces were pitted in mock combat against Americans pretending to be Iranian forces. Iran won, after sinking one of our carrier battle groups and severely damaging another, as well as inflicting massive losses on our ground troops.

Not only that, but we are still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and insurgents there are sure to take advantage of any distraction in Iran to attack us from the rear in a pincer move on both the eastern and western fronts — we’d have the Iranians in front of us and Iraqis or Afghanis disrupting our lines in the rear. This is the classic war college recipe for unmitigated military disaster, not that that will stop our general staff who seem to have abandoned all reason in pursuit of — what? — unwinnable, demoralizing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Sheer stupidity.

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