A possible long-term effect

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This war exposing the limits of US military power. Make no mistake it is the greatest military power, and can strike anyone, anywhere at will. But the economical cost of the war is dawning on people. We are going to see the cost escalate to $1T if not more. Even more important is understanding winning a war is not raining the missiles. Your enemy may survivor after all and suddenly in spite of their total destruction, you may be the loser. Instead of you rewriting the terms, they may end up rewriting the terms.

Some/ many of the hawks who wanted to bomb Iran and kill their leadership may not accept this publicly, but I am hoping many reasonable people could move there. The call for war on anyone and everyone we don’t like will go down a lot.

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Univ. of Chicago Prof. Robert Pape explains the “oil hegemon” and why Iran now has the World by the short & curlies despite US military might.

I’m pretty sure that the Joint Chiefs tried to explain this to the President when he brought up Netanyahu’s 20-year wet dream of getting the US to invade Iran.

As Prof Pape counsels, “The Iran ground war will be Vietnam on steroids.”

I’m glad I’m too old and disabled to be drafted. (Though my prosthetist told me the VA gives the $120,000 Robo-Leg to the patients they want to return to combat.}

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5 weeks and the know-it-alls have this under control.

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