Maths proves US won't attack: Iran leader, page 3

Originally posted by BitRaiser

Iraq had a fraction of Iran's military capability, yet the war rages on.

Let’s see we started the invasion on March 20th 2003 and were in Baghdad on April 8th. A big part of it was traveling 400 miles from Kuwait, and so that was about it for the war. What we been doing ever since is trying to set up a government, and that part has not been easy.
Our military skills, equipment, weapons and tactics are much better now with four years of refinement, and only 200 miles to Tehran from Mosul Iraq.

In Vietnam, the vastly superior US war engine was effectively brought to a halt by farmers with scavenged weapons.

Not vastly...

So are you saying that an elite fighting force can be stopped by farmers with outdated weapons? We didn’t advance in Vietnam because of politics. Those politics didn’t allow our troops to do the right job, and this was mainly because the antiwar feelings in the states and most importantly we didn’t want China to fully engage, but China was providing everything Vietnam needed, so those scavenged weapons were new Chinese made weapons.

The Mujahideen kicked the Russians out of Afghanistan despite being sorely out numbered and out armed.
Hell, even the "invincible" Roman legions got the snot kicked out of them by a bunch of barbarians.

Man that is rugged country, but what does the Russians getting their butts kicked got to do with the US, oh..BTW we were suppling the Mujahideen and anyone else over there with anything they wanted, so I guess it was American tech that beat the Russians.

Even if Iran's military complex could be "easily" destroyed, the result would be a massive spike in terrorist activity. [FYI, current estimates show that terrorism has increased by a factor of seven since the invasion of Iraq]
History teaches us that those who believe themselves to be invincible are setting themselves up for a fall, yet the ignorant refuse to learn.

Wow, you finally said something correct… The fact is we can destroy that countries’ infrastructure, military, you name it in short order, and with little resistance in doing so. Now the big question is, a week later after we blow them to bits what then? You are right that massive numbers of extremist would be created overnight, and a crap load of people will die around the world for years to come.

This is one logical reason why Iran’s president wants us to attack, and a big one why we will not attack. At this point Iran is zero threat to us or the world and time will do them in with their large numbers of young people adopting less extremist views. Iran wants extremist views and an all out invasion by us would play right into their hands to get another few generations of them.

Please don’t confuse military capabilities with politics as you seem to do with your statements.