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Originally Posted by RWebb
How are we going to restrict their fuel supply if other nations won't help? Or do you assume they will?
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All sanctions so far have been done with international cooperation, so it could be done. Although quite frankly, anything would be tough sell right now. We have so many sanctions on Iran, there is not much more to sanction. They've become a new Cuba...which is bad.
50 Years of sanctions and embargo against Cuba did nothing but give Castro a reason to rally the people behind him. If we had opened our economy up...Who knows? Right now Havana might be Las Vegas south.
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Originally Posted by RWebb
remember, air strikes (likely with insertion/extraction) of small no.s of ground troops do not have to completely wipe out their nuke capability -- that just has to set it back, say, 10 years. then we lather/rinse/repeat until it becomes clear...not advocating that
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Glad you are not advocating that, because they would likely see it as an out and out act of war. Even those Iranians who don't support Imanutjob, probably would support him would if we bombed targets in their country.
Their response:
1. Turn off the oil, causing an international crisis.
2. Mess in Iraq. Until now they have been messing around in a covert way in Iraq, we really, really, don't need them getting overt.
They don't need to beat us militarily either. An open was with Iran would cause enough economic and politcal hardship in the US, to make any president's term miserable.