stale2002 19 hours ago

> the Iranian government were either going to fight the war

You missed the perfectly reasonable 3rd option. Iran could stop shooting missiles at oil tankers, stop funding proxy groups, and make an arrangement for peace.

We both know though, that they are unwilling to do that. Because peace was never their goal. Instead, they wanted to achieve regional hegemony, and funded proxy groups to do that. But whatever, look how well that worked out for them.

Sure, if taking out the regime is the only pathway to stop Iran from continuing on its current path, then the USA is of course going to try that. But if there was an actual path the peace here, where Iran simply stopped its attacks, things could get back to normal fairly quickly.

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hardbass 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Israel can stop attacking and taking over land of random sovereign countries, shooting missiles into peaceful countries like Dubai. What is stopping them?

	▲	viler 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Israel has shot a grand total of zero missiles at Dubai. Which is not a country; the country is UAE, at which Iran has launched some 2,500 missiles. What's stopping Israel from attacking "random" countries? Perhaps the fact that they're hardly "random", rather they all host proxy groups of the occupying regime in Iran, who have very openly been subverting those countries into bases from which to attack Israel. Try again.
	▲	stale2002 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> What is stopping them? The militant groups obviously. If peace isn't possible of course Israel is going to play to win. Israel was perfectly able to make peace with Egypt and jordan, for example, and they aren't invading them.