>>113591Stupid? Yes
Weak? I don't know; we did destroy like 90% of their navy and air force in 10 days-pretty much anything within defensible distance-and we could probably do as much to just about any other country on Earth at this time while drone warfare has yet to truly mature. The problem is destroying your opponents' ordnance isn't enough to change hearts and minds or win strategic geographical or political victories, obviously.
It's the exact same shit as Vietnam and Iraq, only difference is the political will in the US to commit ground troops is totally absent here. Everyone knows we're doing this for Israel's benefit and not our own,
especially our servicemembers. We would fuck Iran up in a ground war as fast or faster than we did Iraq's
conventional army, but then we'd have soldiers milling about aimlessly for 20 years and at the cost of trillions of dollars in much the same way, only for our soldiers to accomplish nothing other than occasionally getting picked off by partisans in a politically unwinnable quagmire.
