Reply #185: Silkworm cruise missiles from China... [View All]

[ddeclue]

We are talking about a naval fleet going into a very confined space (the Gulf) with a very obvious choke point (the Straits of Hormuz). They would be sitting ducks for Iranian owned, Chinese made Silkworm cruise missiles.

You are thinking 25 years in the past. This is not your father's Iran. They are very wealthy from their oil money and have invested quite a lot into Chinese, Russian, and European military technology. They are also, as I said, a much larger country both physically and population-wise than Iraq. Finally, they are (obstensibly) a democratically elected government and will generally have the support of the population should we decide to attack them.

We just will NOT be able to get away with attacking Iran and it will be a disaster.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL