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Nothing short of an actual Iranian nuclear attack on US soil would ever result in the kind of outcome you describe and they are nowhere near having that capability.
Is not the bases, and etc over Babylon way considered that? How about the soldiers? I hope that sort of thing never happens, of course. Maybe I read too much news.
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If whoever is in office would be stupid enough to call for such a thing the backlash against the US would be massive and not just from the Moslem world. Our economy would be in shambles after that due to a catastrophic energy crisis. Our own citizenry would be rioting both for the action itself and the subsequent decline of our social system.
Sounds frightful. But it is hard to really guess how it would turn out. I suspect that both the EU, and the UN would be strengthened.
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Your improbable scenario is would you would do if you want the children of previously middle income parents to literally starve on the streets of our suburbs.
Well, no, I simply look at the threats from Israel, to Iran, and the likely weapons that will be used for the job. The repercussions seem likely. Not my idea. I think I remember a US veiled warning to Iran, from last time things looked like a possible attack there. Something like, 'You touch our boys, or bases over there, we do the wild thing on ya'
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Luckily like you said, that would never happen. Iran will never invade Iraq because as buddy buddy as they are now with Sadr he would turn on them almost instantly. Iraq is actually much more nationalistic then people give them credit for and there still are very deep wounds from the previous war.
I never said that. My concerns were that they would attack it, I meant by missiles, maybe chemicals, etc, or whatever they had. I guess the term is surgical strike. In this case, it might be with a blunt scalpel.
Then there is the matter of Iran's friends, and quiet handshakes. I notice some concerns with Syria as well, maybe they would both get a little hot under the collar, if Israel stirred it up?