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adverbly 2 hours ago

Well hopefully this is short, minimally lethal, and leads to regime change for all those involved.

Zealotux 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>leads to regime change for all those involved

Including for the U.S. and Israel?

Revanche1367 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Pretty sure he chose his words carefully.

gambiting 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We can only hope.

methyl an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s possible

shevy-java 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Iraq? Afghanistan? Vietnam?

I don't think any of these were short.

thomassmith65 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Desert Storm was short. The second Iraq War, the stupid one, was not.

ponector 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This does not look like a smart one. A bit smarter would be to strike a month ago to support street protests.

invader an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

However, to be fair, Desert Storm hasn't resulted in regime change. The Coalition bombed the shit out of the Iraqi army, but never committed to the ground operation deep inside Iraq. And Saddam's regime survived until the next war.

That alone hints that it is very hard to bring a dictatorship down with just aerial attacks - the ground component is also essential. Something tells me it is going to be the same here.

Only a land operation or a total collapse of the government, with the armed police and military joining the opposition, can topple the Iranian regime.

AbstractH24 14 minutes ago | parent [-]

Counterexanple would be Venezuela

UncleMeat an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Desert storm didn’t attempt regime change. Iran is not currently invading anyone.