The Iran Attack

Opinions? Is Israel / US right to proceed with this? The spike in oil prices seems to indicate that many worry it will happen, and there is a lot of talk.

The US doesn't have much it can do if Iran retaliates by hitting the troops over in Iraq. Possibly a small limited nuclear response would be all they could do.That might open up a brave new world.

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Supposing Iran really were that idiotic, their entire civilization would be incinerated in a flash retribution via intercontinental ballistic missiles. Since their entire military is centrally located, it would be to their folly to ever try something like that.

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Remember what the US did to Japan for Pearl Harbor? It would be infinitely worse for Iran.

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That is all well and good, in theory. In reality, some people may not take kindly to the US nuking on a big scale. Nothing would unite the rest of the world seriously against the US faster than that. The contaminations and fallout would affect more than Iran. You kidding??Edited by starman, : No reason given.Edited by starman, : No reason given.

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Nothing short of an actual Iranian nuclear attack on US soil would ever result in the kind of outcome you describe and they are nowhere near having that capability.

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Is not the bases, and etc over Babylon way considered that? How about the soldiers? I hope that sort of thing never happens, of course. Maybe I read too much news.

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If whoever is in office would be stupid enough to call for such a thing the backlash against the US would be massive and not just from the Moslem world. Our economy would be in shambles after that due to a catastrophic energy crisis. Our own citizenry would be rioting both for the action itself and the subsequent decline of our social system.

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Sounds frightful. But it is hard to really guess how it would turn out. I suspect that both the EU, and the UN would be strengthened.

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Your improbable scenario is would you would do if you want the children of previously middle income parents to literally starve on the streets of our suburbs.

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Well, no, I simply look at the threats from Israel, to Iran, and the likely weapons that will be used for the job. The repercussions seem likely. Not my idea. I think I remember a US veiled warning to Iran, from last time things looked like a possible attack there. Something like, 'You touch our boys, or bases over there, we do the wild thing on ya'

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Luckily like you said, that would never happen. Iran will never invade Iraq because as buddy buddy as they are now with Sadr he would turn on them almost instantly. Iraq is actually much more nationalistic then people give them credit for and there still are very deep wounds from the previous war.

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I never said that. My concerns were that they would attack it, I meant by missiles, maybe chemicals, etc, or whatever they had. I guess the term is surgical strike. In this case, it might be with a blunt scalpel.Then there is the matter of Iran's friends, and quiet handshakes. I notice some concerns with Syria as well, maybe they would both get a little hot under the collar, if Israel stirred it up?

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But the world would be approving of Iran nuking Iraq, thus taking out two of its enemies -- Iraqis and American soldiers?

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I would think most of it would not. But how much? If limited nuclear war was waged on Iran, and or Syria, any pity from a dastardly revenge act might be washed away as insignificant.The brunt of a revenge attack by Iran, in Iraq territory, one assumes, would be directed at the US forces, and interests, no? Not at Iraqis.The world would be horrified, but, really, if it was a reaction to a nuclear tipped bunker buster assault by Israel, most would simply shake their heads, and feel that they almost had it coming?Seems to me that the best way to defend against that sort of thing is to address the nukes in Israel, that might be used. Oh, wasn't Kennedy about to do that? Hmm, maybe it is easier said than done. If that is the case, I guess, their bed is made, and they will need to lie down in it.I will have no sympathy for anyone using nukes. Period. None, only contempt.Edited by starman, : No reason given.