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qlte a day ago

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.

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.

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.

orwin 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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