I'm conservative as the day is long, bordering on libertarian in some aspects, and if you've read my posts you know that. Saying that this Iran war/military action is the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time. It may be dumber than Biden's pull out of Afghanistan, the question still remains how much he knew of what was actually happening, but it was his administration.
Who in the world was siting in the room when this Iran thing was dreamed up? Was there no one there to explain that the only way to deal with the Iranian regime was to either kill them all and launch a full scale invasion, and by kill them all I mean the entire leadership, military, IRGC, and the majority of the fighting age men. The Big Red One, The First Armored Division, the 82nd and 101st Airborne, The Old Breed, too name a few, and the rest of our elite special forces units would have to roll into Tehran and blow the entire place up. Then you would need to occupy it for years, and no one wants to do that. The cost in blood from just our service members alone would be way more than we could bear. Then you throw in the cost, and dear Lord the casualties the Iranian people would take. It would easily be in the millions if not 10 million. It would be enormous. It's simply not something we should do in any capacity.
Your other option is leave them alone. Understand they will bluster and boast and just ignore the idiots. If they do ever get a bomb and use it then all bets are off. It could be really bad, but that is something you would have to weigh the outcomes of.
A third and probably best option is to monitor what they are doing and if necessary drop a bomb on some specific target to delay their nuclear capability if you absolutely have to. You include your allies in the Middle East and Europe on this. You don't necessarily tell the day and time and tactical details, but you develop a plan that they know could be executed and all parties are aware of a general stance. Think what was done with the B-2's a while back. You understand you can't destroy all their capacity, but you slow it when absolutely necessary.
We aren't dealing with sane actors. They are as talked about above very similar to the Japanese in WW2. I think they are even more fanatical if really want the truth of it. It all boils down to the version of Islam they are adhering to. It's as radical a form as there is. This leads them to not make the same sane decisions that most other countries would make. They don't care about the economy of Iran. They don't care about the citizens of the country, and in many cases the leadership and IRGC don't care about their own lives either. You kill one guy another one just steps into his shoes and continues the same policies and actions.
They don't think like us or look at the world like we do. This means we can't deal with them like we dealt with Venezuela or even the old USSR. They don't live in that world. The people of Iran can't overthrow the government even if they wanted to do so. They will just kill them in the streets by the tens of thousands if necessary. If you don't understand your adversary you can't properly deal with them. This isn't just a Trump problem. Obama and Biden thought they could reason with them and give them money and make nice. They tried to go in the other direction. They aren't your friend and they never will be. They hate us and want to see us all dead or converted to their brand of Islam. That's the only thing they understand, violence and force, and if you go hard at them you have to be ready to go all the way and stack the bodies, and I don't want to do that. Iraq and Afghanistan showed us you can't Westernize a people that at their heart don't want or share Western values. It's a square peg and a round hole. So stop trying to slam the wrong peg in the wrong hole. My God it's just not that hard to figure out. Islam isn't the friend of the left or the right in American political terms. They want us all dead or converted. They are willing to die and see the populations of their country decimated to stay true to the ideology.
