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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
Like most wars, we won’t fully know if it is a success or not until years down the road. Who steps up to take over in Iran will certainly give us a clearer picture of the short term.
My biggest fear is that there is a leader that takes over in Iran that the citizens there don’t want. I don’t see how you could view this as a fully successful mission if that happens.
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Even in the unlikely scenario that Iranians eventually get a government they want, it still doesn't mean the US decision to go to war was a wise one. The track record of these types of interventions in the Middle East isn't a good one, and the results always seem to be decades of instability and carnage.
Then you add on top of that the amount of civilian lives lost in the fighting, the soldiers killed in combat, the destruction of infrastructure, the immense cost to US taxpayers... not to mention the destabilization of the Middle East as a whole, and other risks such as the rise of terror groups like ISIS...
No, there really is no honest way you can justify this war, IMO.