Posted by Sigismund on March 14, 2009, at 17:45:03
In reply to Re: War on two fronts, posted by Neal on March 14, 2009, at 1:04:49
I know so little about Iran. It is always said that invasion of Iran would be an entirely different matter to invasion of Iraq. It is also said that Iran is a nation of poets, which kinda surprised me. Thankfully no provocations involving US ships disguised as Iranian ones occurred. Presumably their nuclear arrangements, whatever their stage of development, are dispersed. In geoplolitical terms an attack by Israel on Iran might suit the Iran regime very nicely. It's an interesting area, from Beirut (Hizbullah) to Gaza (Hamas) [Iranian sympathisers, if not clients?] through Iraq (Shias) to the complicated situation in Afghanistan and then Pakistan.
It is, without question, a debacle for US policy in the region.
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