WWGWD
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No one should be frightened by me, a lowly Canadian, a stray voice in the wilderness, although resident in the third largest city in North America.
I'm not big on war, being older I'm not able to participate unless something goes truly catastrophic, so it's not for me to be encouraging others to fight. My comments were simply to reflect that in my view Iran may be a lot like Iraq - all talk, not much to back it up - and a force as strong as America's, with allies like those in NATO, would likely make quick work of them as they did in Iraq - and the aftermath would likely be far less chaotic due to the highly educated and in many respects "westernized" younger population.
But like Iraq and Iran, I'm all talk too, just enjoying the give and take of life in DP land.
Fair enough, that's totally a legitimate perspective. I definitely don't think Iran would be easy though, by any stretch of the imagination though. No where near what Iraq was. The Iraq military consisted of and estimated 375,000 troops with coalition forces invaded. Iran is estimated to have that, plus 700,000 reservists. Granted, there is no telling how many of them would remain loyal to the regime, but we made the assumption that the Iraqi people would greet as liberators, and that's not exactly what happened there. There is a lot of hostility toward the US all over the middle east. I think it would be a dangerous proposition, to make that assumption again.
I'm with you though, the give and take in DP land is where all the fun is at :lol: