Why the U.S. Cannot Invade Iran
First and foremost, Iran definitley has nuclear weapons. It is no longer a question of if. The Iranian government, unlike the Iraq government has publically stated that they do have nuclear weapons and have been testing them out. Iran also has a history of disliking the U.S. ever since the CIA staged a coup to overthrow their government and put the Shah or Iran into power. Thet Triggered the Iranian Revolution, bringing the Ayatolla into power. The U.S. had wanted to put a puppet leader into power in Iran to serve hte interests of the U.S. but the Iranian people protested. The Iranian revolution's main cause was that the country would not trade with the U.S. their abundant supply of oil.
Iran is the second largest exporter of oil and it is the country's main source of revenue. The first leading exporter is Saudi Arabia which the U.S. actively buys from. To this day, Iran does nto sell oil to the U.S. which has driven up oil prices in the U.S. tremendously and has caused our country to look for other countries like Nigeria to buy oil from.
Getting back to the point that critics make about attacking Iran, such a war would be disasterous for the U.S. The U.S. is still at war in Iraq, a war that American is losing. The U.S. has still not been abilty to bring stability to the region or take out people who are opposed to U.S. interference. Every day there is an attack on the U.S. military and soldiers are stil ldying in Iraq. The war has caused the U.S. billions of dollars and the president just signed an order passed by Congress asking for another 250 billion dollars in money to go to the war effort. The initial estimates and costs for the war by Bush's experts had costs at a low 1.7 billion dollars. Thats not even close to the amount that has been spent in the war.
Another point to make is that Iran does have nuclear weapons. If the U.S. attacks Iran, they will attack us back with everything they got, including their nuclear wepaons which would kill hudnreds of thouands of people and leave radiation for dozens of years to come in certain areas. Furthermore, the Iranian population is 4 times the size of Iraq. Their people already hate the U.S. and will fight back. If the U.S. cannot control the people of a country with 1/4 of the size of Iran, how can they possible do so with 4 times that amount? If we are already losing a war in Iraq, how can we win one in Iran?
The U.S. military is currently deployed in Iraq and there appears to be no end in sight. An invasion of Iran would take all of the aircraft, land and sea power that the U.S. military has. It cannot afford to only bring half of that over to war in Iraq becasue troops must still stay in Iraq. This brings me to my next point which is that the U.S. military is already calling up the reserves and is worried about the lack of troops in the army. If more deaths are to be reasonably assumed in a war in Iran, the U.S. military wil lbe stretched too thin for its own good and leave American open to attack. An invasion of Iran also begs to ask the question, how will the U.S. image look ine Arab world. Most Arab people already hate the U.S. Now it gives those moderates an even bigger reson to hate America and commit terrorist acts.
My final point to make is that China is Iran's biggest ally. China is a huge importer of oil from Iran and will not stand by while the U.S. attacks Iranian oil and is unable to ship it to China. China might embargo the U.S. or sanction the economy, which will hurt thousands of jobs and hurt the U.S. economy tremendously. The U.S. relies heavily on China for its imports on goods and that is why the U.S. must maintain good relations with China.
These points all make an invasion of Iran a very dangerous and bad decision. It could devestate the U.S. military and economy in a war that we cannot win.
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Post a CommentTo me the only good and smart people on this planet are Israel and USA the rest should be kill.
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You're an idiot. You have no idea what you're talking about. How did America lose in Iraq??? If Iran is a threat it can easily be taken out, you dont even know your numbers.
You're absolutely wrong, Most iranian loves west and U.S.
Don't look at all those people who back supreme leader and bastared Ahmadinejad up, they're all get paid very good and take care by these natzi regime.
Iran has over 70 mil people that may be million of them support this murderer regime, because they get pay well. But what happen if U.S. and other allies like U.K., France and others start to enter Iran's soil, can you imagine how many millions of Iranian will support them and they will bring down this anti humanity and barbaric regime, because now they know superpowers are behind them!
I personally think this regime is much dangerous to mideast peace and beyond than North korea and pervious Iraqi regime.
Iranian people are kind and always want peace. Their regime is EVIL and look like they're not Iranian at all the way they kill innocent Iranian people.
Iranian need U.S. and allies' help more than ever to get to their freedom and collapse this Evil and monster regime of fea
give money and weapons to political groups they support and have them go door to door killing civilins because of there religion, conceling information on what really happened on 9/11, supports terrorism, supports and promotes genocide, and so on.
Now who is benefiting? Obviously the U.S. Doesn't it seem kind of strange to u that an organization that the U.S. funded (Al-Qaida) bombed the U.S or should I say its self?
Think about this question: Who really benifited from 9/11? Lets see:
Muslims: Being persecuted, executed, imprisoned for many years without concrete evidence and no trial, racialy profiled, religious discrimination, U.S. soldiers dressing up as middle easterners and attacking people in Iraq, allowed visas but being denied green cards and U.S. citizenship because they are Arab or Muslim, not given jobs because they are Arab or Muslim, authorized to work but denied a social security card because they are Arab or Muslim.
U.S.: Legalize torture, legalize oppression, legalize preying on 2 year old children because they are Arab or Muslim, denying people the right to vote because they are Arab or Muslim, legalize descrimination, trying to falsly incriminate Muslim Americans in order to split up the family and Christianize the children. Kidnapping U.S. citizens because they are Arab or Muslim, invade afganistan, invade iraq, claim political groups they oppose as terrorists...
I hear Iran is already being invaded by the U.S. from Iraq. & I believe starting an official war with Iran would be costly and a BIG mistake on the U.S.'s and Israel's part. Many of the countries in the middle east are run by the shia so if they invade Iran they will have to worry about being attacked by other shia runned countries. Eventually the middle east will get sick of the U.S.'s and Israel's "Hitler propaganda".
If we go to war with Iran it will be the 3rd war. Afganistan, Iraq, Iran. I guess everyone forgot we still have troops in Afganistan.
I don't know about the nuclear weapons Iran has or may have... I guess most of us wouldn't really be able to know that 100 % proof positive. Someone may know, but not the average American. The point about China is a pretty good point though - Also the point about we have not accomplished our goals in Iraq. Forgive me, but I thought a war was a war - trying to defeat another country. They want to defeat us, but we want to build them up. Weird war. Anyway, whatever you believe about the Iraq deal - good or bad - it is kind of hard to start a second war when you're not even done with a first one!
How many innocent victims died in 9/11?