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Originally Posted by Azure
Thats funny Claeren, in Vietnam, US Navy SEALs had a kill ratio of 200:1.
Not good enough to win a guerilla war?
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Ah... apparently not. Unless i missed something about them retreating with their tails between their legs?
I realize America is better at killing massive amounts of people, innocent and not - directly and indirectly, then any other nation currently on earth but that doesn't mean they can take the actual strategically needed step of subdueing a given group of people. Most people opposed to America hate them SO much they would rather strap explosives to themselves and die than stay under America-led occupied rule.
The real point though was that Iran is a much harder foe then Vietnam or Iraq (for example) so 'victory' is hardly assured.
And 200/1 from their best fighters? Do you really think that Americans will allow 10's and then 100's of thousands of Americans to die in Iran? Because when you do the math that is what you are looking at! And what about the hundreds of thousands of young DRAFTED American college kids being shipped off to fight this war? Their upper-middle class parents are going to tolarate that for how long? 80,000,000 people in Iran, less then 30,000,000 in Iraq. 85,000,000 in Vietnam, 47,000,000 in Korea, and only 3,000,000 in Panama.
3,000 dead Americans and counting in Iraq and that is in a country a fraction of the size, with a fraction of the wealth, that was under sanctions for 10 years and that had already been devestated before that that they have no chance of defeating.
Unless the goal is to simply destablilize Iran America has little chance of winning a war there.
And how would America pay for the war in Iran? Oil would skyrocket, the debt would ballon even more and interest rates in turn would spike, and you would be dealing with a VERY ****ed off China that has lost an important pillar of it energy ally, that has close to 1 TRILLION in foreign USD reserves.
Claeren.