Theodore's World

If Iraq wasn't keeping so many troops busy, Iran would be invaded by now. It may come to a few precision strikes, but a war with Iran would really be awkward. Winnable, easily, but not without making Iraq even worse.

If the rest of the world was interested in stopping Iran and North Korea's nuclear threat to the world then troop strength in Iraq or anywhere else for that matter wouldn't be an issue. With only one reliable ally aiding us to fend them off, the rest of the world's nations either appease them directly or indirectly through the auspices of the United Nations, with one exception, Israel, which has it's hands full trying to survive. We can verbally keep Iran at bay with GWB at the helm but with that Sarcophilus Pelosi howling at the moon Iran knows that the party of Pelosi and Clinton will do as much as the UN will to halt the threat of direct nuclear attack on Israel, the United States and Britain. An attack by Islam on New York hasn't awakened the sleeping giant maybe a second attack will take out the UN headquarters there and mildly arouse the UN defenders.

Suricou Raven, nah, Iran would not be fought on the ground, no need to. It's a bird - it's a plane it the USA coming in for the kill is what probably would happen with Iran. At least as far as I think they would do it anyway.

Jack, good point.

Yes Jack, we are basically alone. Only Australia, Israel, and a few other countries are battling the islamic terror. Britain probably won't be in it much longer. The moslems may win almost by default, and immigration.

The moslems may have figured out the worse thing they can do for their cause is strike us again. Another attack on America would put the democrats in a bind. The democrats would have to support a war they don't want to win, and the average American would be in favor of really kicking moslem butt again. Ahmadinejad is goofy enough to support a terrorist strike on us, and a lot of Iranians probably fear that our retaliation would be directed at them.

You are all correct here, the UN needs to wake up and disband already. There is no point to having it anymore, not after it showed the world that it lacks complete teeth dimplomatically and forcefully speaking. Worse comes to worse, I would agree with Raven, in that a war in Iran would be winnable, however, it really doesn't have to come to that, all it would have to come to would be a few precision strikes in the right places *cough* nuclear research facilities *cough* and that's the end of that, I mean its Iran, can they really have that many scientists that they could easily put the program back together if it was dismantled with extreme prejudice?