To be fair to Trump, he hasn’t invaded Iran, like Dubya and Papa Bush invaded Iraq: he more like Clinton in that he lobs some missiles to get people minds off of how he’s fouling things up otherwise in the US and world.
IIUC, Iran would be harder to invade and occupy than Iraq: it’s over 2x the size, has about 2x the population, it’s more mountainous, and the regime now might be twice the age, and presumably twice as entrenched, than Saddam’s was in 1991.
Granted, it’s GDP is lower than Iraq’s (now and perhaps before 1991) and IIUC, its arguably more heterogeneous, and Saddam before June 1990 was less antagonistic to the US than Khomeini or Khamenei, so maybe you have a point.
This. Claiming Iran has or has worked on WMD is the same fake casus belli as was given with Iraq.
To be fair to Trump, he hasn’t invaded Iran, like Dubya and Papa Bush invaded Iraq: he more like Clinton in that he lobs some missiles to get people minds off of how he’s fouling things up otherwise in the US and world.
Not yet.
and I doubt it will happen.
IIUC, Iran would be harder to invade and occupy than Iraq: it’s over 2x the size, has about 2x the population, it’s more mountainous, and the regime now might be twice the age, and presumably twice as entrenched, than Saddam’s was in 1991.
Granted, it’s GDP is lower than Iraq’s (now and perhaps before 1991) and IIUC, its arguably more heterogeneous, and Saddam before June 1990 was less antagonistic to the US than Khomeini or Khamenei, so maybe you have a point.
I get what you’re saying but there would have been so many better ways to start that sentence…