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Originally posted by Chris McGee
On-Topic:
I can't see any harm in excluding France and Germany from this. They wouldn't go along with it anyway so including them would just be a massive waste of time and an open invitation for more diplomatic grandstanding. The only thing that troubles me about this plan is that it may push France and Germany into trying to accelerate plans for a full-fledged EU army.
Originally posted by Marid Audran
Again, not a big fan of current German or French policies but I think any free society needs dessenting voices. When everyone agrees with America is when I think we need to be worried as a society and as a world.
Originally posted by AceOfBase
The credibility of that article is suspect.
The part about the side aspect being a body blow to the EU was a little iffy and then they talked about the US being upset over not being consulted on the new Pope and it really lost it's credibility at that point.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
I said stop or SET BACK Iran’s Development of nuclear weapons. Iran was lying about its secret sites for years and what they are doing right now is illegal under a treaty they signed.
Also all we need for an affective air strike is SF units on the ground gathering intelligence and shining lasers on targets. If we waned to overthrow the current regime in Iran and invade it like we did in Iraq then we would need a lot of troops and equipment. We just want an air strike to take out their nuclear development sites and perhaps some missile sites and for that we don't need thousands of troops.
You think its going to be easy to get those SF troops INSIDE iran?
Originally posted by WestPoint23
DW we have Iraq to the west of Iran and Afghanistan the East of Iran. Do you know how long each of those borders are? Border infiltration combined with air dropped SF should be enough, and amphibious inflation would be risky but there is another option for you.
Originally posted by devilwasp
Thats inside the local coastal and border regions, what about DEEP iran?
With out declareing war?
Interesting, but we are NOT playing splinter cell or rainbow 6, that mission would be unfeasable.
Originally posted by deltaboy
im sure Delta, Rangers, etc, can go deep in Iran, since smugglers seem to go deep as well.