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Originally Posted by thenry
Just get on with it America. The drama in all this must be deafening to the citizens caught up in it all, those wanting change that is. My own mind has spun more than once today  |
Get on with what exactly?
In general when starting military action, it is good to have a proper objective, actual realistic aims, a means to achieve these and a clear idea of what constitutes ‘victory’ and how to get it.
This current fiasco had none of those things, the aims changed hour by hour, regime change (how, and who takes over), removing Iran’s missile arsenal, preventing them from acquiring nuclear weapons (which was always dubious, yes enriching Uranium to past that required for energy generation does look a bit suspicious but not proper evidence), helping the Iranian people to overthrow the Theocracy, prevent Iran from sponsoring and equipping terrorist organisations?
Have any of these things actually happened?
Pick any one of these and how do you achieve it? Certainly not just from the air, a full-blown ground invasion is required and US administrations are terrified of this because of the news reports of all the full body bags coming back!
I strongly suspect that all the yes-men and women that Trump has surrounded himself with, told him exactly what he wanted to hear - this would be a quick victory, the overwhelming US air power will have Iran begging for a deal within a few days with zero US casualties.
Unfortunately that has now run headlong into reality; no quick successes so Trump has now gotten bored of the whole thing and just wants out. Although I have no doubt that he will claim it as a huge WIN for the US and especially for him! Oil prices will remain high for the foreseeable, this on-off ceasefire just leads to uncertainty - and markets don’t like that.
All of this should have been planned for and anticipated from the off - but it wasn’t. That deranged and foul-mouthed statement the other day is just a sign of utter desperation for some kind of off-ramp.
The only one who has gained anything from this is Netanyahu, who, the second he leaves office is looking at corruption charges, so desperately needs to maintain a degree of danger to keep him in power.