Lukas wrote:the thing is i heard that iran's econimy is crippling and if we can hold back anoth eventully somthing might work to are favor, who knows? anything is possible nowadays(if you think this countrys is getting worse you never were in the Great depression or the times of early WW2 era so study that before you assuming things are worse then they are)
North Korea's economy is s*** too, but that didn't stop Jong-Il from starting his own nuclear weapons program. Don't forget that in dictatorship states like Iran, the government doesn't give half a s*** if their people are poor, starving or dieing of air pollution. All they need are a devoted military and somebody they can tell their people to chant "death to" instead.
I don't think it would be fair comparing a potential Iran/Iraq war to the previous Iran/Iraq or Vietnam though. What made those two wars so brutal was that, while the United States and allies were supporting one side, the other side was supported by the communists.
A war with Iran, I believe, would be very similar to the war in Iraq. Saddam, his government and his military took only a few months to completely dismantle, and since then the military has been struggling to maintain order. The same, I believe, would be true of Iran. With only support from a bunch of Saudis hiding in caves, Iran's military wouldn't stand a chance. Maintaining order in the country, however, would be near impossible.
Realistically, the U.S. shouldn't expect to be able to do anything about Iran until Iraq is stable. I'm starting to wonder if maybe there's a lot of resentment towards democracy in the Middle East because their closest democratic neighbors are all non-Muslim. If that's true, a Muslim democracy might help set an example to people in other countries and possibly inspire the people to overthrow their own dictators. The only problem is that we need to convince the Iraqis that democracy and Islam can coexist first.
