The Fine Art of Withdrawal, by William S. Lind: “As the worst case, we should envision what might happen if Israel or the U.S. or both attack Iran. Israel has recently indicated that unless international efforts to secure Iran’s nuclear program succeed, an Israeli military action is likely sometime next year. Iran has said publicly that it will regard an Israeli attack as an attack by America also. If Iran’s influence in Shiite southern Iraq is as great as reports suggest it is, the obvious Iranian response would be to blow up the magazine by attacking the American lines of supply – and withdrawal – that come up from Kuwait. Add a Shiite insurgency to that of the Sunnis, and an American withdrawal could start to look like Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, with sand substituting for snow.”
Wow, another hysterical post on the Israel-Iran war that hasn’t happened yet.
The best thing that could happen for the U.S. in the Middle East would be for Iran to attack us in Iraq. That would give us an excuse to take out their entire military infrastructure with JDAMs launched from B-1s.
You’ve got to remember that “one of these things isn’t like the others.” Iran is a well-equipped regional power. The U.S. has huge reserve arsenals of strategic weapons with global reach.
