> few F35s and bomber squads could reliably deplete and destroy the entire Iranian drone stock and manufacturing capacity if there was the desire and higher tolerance for civilian casualties

the current admin does not care about civilians casualties. remember the tomahawk on school girls? so what are they waiting for if it was that easy?

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qlte a day ago | parent [-]

Yeah, it's laughable to think that somewhere in the DoD a map labeled like "Iran: Huge Undefended Drone Warehouses" has just been sitting around unused because Hegseth/Trump keep vetoing it on account of potential civilian casualties.

Sure, we could easily wrap this whole thing up a couple days but the admin is choosing to remain stuck in a quagmire that's dooming GOP in the midterms. Based on a moral red line, of all things. Makes perfect sense.

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klrefg 21 hours ago | parent [-]

They obviously could start methodically destroying civilian infrastructure to cause a huge humanitarian crisis which might force the Iranian government to collapse. They have clearly chosen not to commit to that approach so far.

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Semkas 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

These kinds of arguments are obviously vacuous: The US could also "win" any war with a non-nuclear opponent by nuking every major city. But the fact that they don't is not something worth calling restraint.

	▲	gpt5 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s definitely worth appreciating. The world could have looked very differently and might still fall into that trap.

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orwin 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They did that btw. Is there any railroad bridge still standing in south Iran?