Realitybites said:Johnny Bear said:Realitybites said:J.R. said:
Ok, let's cut through all the Trumpy Admin's lies and BS relative to his war of choice and see where we are:
1) No Nuclear Weapons. They are already back enriching- Strike 1
2) Regime Change-Strike 2
3) Wipe out Ballistic Capabilities. They still have half of their missiles and a chit ton of drones. Strike 3
That would be 0-3 for yall scoring at home. What a disaster.
oh, and the worse swing and a miss. Straight of Hourmuz shut down again. Viva la Donnie!
Face it. Sure Piggy destroyed some stuff, but make NO mistake we a losing by every metric. Sad but true.
This is a war we cannot win. Which is why every previous president did not go racing into it.
Even with ground forces, we cannot effect regime change in a civilizational state 6x as large as Iraq with 4x the population with an army 1/2 the size of the one we had during the Iraq war.
What a defeatist attitude. Sad. Glad that unlike '21 though '24 we have bold and smart leaders that don't agree.
Defeatist attitude?
No. An attitude born of wearing the ACUs of that Army that was 2x as large as this one for 8 years.
First of all, thank you for your service.
And I respect your informed opinion, but it kind of reminds me of the "mutually assured destruction" attitude during the Cold War that held that it is impossible for the USA and the West in general to ever bring down the Soviet Union and our only option is to insure the Soviets believe that any attempt to destroy us - even if successful - will at best also result in their destruction as well. And multiple US POTUS's adhered to this belief which among other things insured a never ending arms race with the constant possibility that one side or the other could make a lethal mistake and trigger that "mutual destruction". Then we got a really different POTUS named Ronald Reagan, who rejected that premise and believed that yes, the Soviet Union can be brought down. And the rest is history.
Today, we have another different kind of POTUS named Donald Trump that believes the enormous threat of a nuclear Iran can actually be eliminated. Yes, things still have to play out with respect to this military action designed to do so, but at a minimum things are at least on schedule less than a month and a half in.
