(10 hours ago)gortex Wrote: The excuse is same as the Iraq war , WMDs , it's hard to see how the result won't be the same.
I agree. It IS difficult to see, isn't it? Some times, one has to really dig through the rubble to find the nuggets.
One difference I can find is that there has been - so far anyways - no ground invasion. That was Bush's second mistake in the Iraq War, with his first being to unnecessarily attack in the first place when he should have been concentrating on AQ in Afghanistan instead..
Another difference I can find is that we did not have Iran buttoned up and locked down with "no fly zones" in the entire north and south of their own country for a whole decade before the strikes commenced, whereas in Iraq that actually WAS the case.
So, if I can find those two differences fairly quickly, it's possible that there may be yet others underneath the rubble.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake