Reply #9: Agree. Without A 1 Million Man Expansion Of US Ground Forces (Draft)

[Strelnikov_]

ANY attack on Iran, including 'limited' air strikes, would be incompetence rising to the level of treason.

Why? Well, look what is going on now. Almost all of our ground forces are tied down policing 7 M +/- Sunnis in Iraq. What happens if, following 'limited' air strikes, we now find ourselves policing the 15 M Shia in Iraq concurrent with a general uprising in the gulf region?

How much sense does it make to gamble with 25%+ of the worlds current oil production, and 70% of it's reserves, not to mention a nearly equal proportion of natural gas? Without deployment of an adequate (500k +) force, economic collapse of the western economies will be a real possibility within six months of the first bomb falling.

"Never, Never, Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

- Sir Winston Churchill

I keep repeating the above quote because it describes the unpredictable nature, as history has bore out, so well. Sane leaders do not embank on wars of choice unless measures have been taken to mitigate all reasonable probabilities.