Reply #6: IED attacks are one thing [View All]

[Nederland]

...conventional military maneuvers are another entirely. The notion that the Iranian army would have a prayer in cutting US supply lines is laughable. Such an attack is not at all like the attacks by Iraqi insurgents, it is a classic military maneuver involving huge numbers of troops and equipment. It is, in other words, precisely the type of conventional military scenario that the US military was designed and trained to confront. During the Iran-Iraq war the Iranians never won a decisive battle, and never pushed Iraqi forces more than a few miles over the border. That same Iraqi military was decimated in a matter of days by US forces in the first Gulf War. Why then anyone would believe that Iranian military poses a serious threat to the US military is beyond me.

No, the real danger in bombing Iran lies in what Iran can do by indirectly in Iraq. Increasing supplies to insurgents, stirring up trouble in Shiites areas, etc.