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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why put boots on the ground when planes and drones can do far more damage?

Trump doesn’t want to be as unpopular as Bush 2 was (in large part to the unnecessary war that killed so many service members).

He will likely rely on planes and drones and simply continue to pummel Iran. [/quote]

The regime is very unlikely to fall based on air power alone.  Trump will either need to give up on regime change or figure out how to have ground forces there.

You are likely correct that Trump realizes US troops there will be very unpopular.  That’s why it looks like he’s turning to the Kurds.[/quote]

Right.

They’re already using the Kurds.

There’s no need to put our military on the ground in Iran. Plus, it’s not possible at the moment.

And I’ll just say it: Israel bombed the hell out of Gaza…and it worked. Apparently that’s what it took to really deal with the problem. Surely Bibi knows what it will take to deal with the threat Iran presents to Israel, and he’s clearly not afraid to go big. [/quote]

Gaza is an open air prison with a few million people controlled by Israel.

Iran is a country with a functioning military and 90+ million people.

Seems like two wildly different scenarios.[/quote]

And let’s not forget that despite Gaza being a far easier problem, and the fact that Israel did put limited ground troops there, Hamas is still there![/quote]

Because nobody’s changing a regime during a war. It’s a known fact that presidential popularity boosts after a terror attack. See: Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Bush for reference. All three have one thing in common: mass demonstrations and protests against their rule months prior to attack. After the attack, the mass demonstrations against the leaders all stopped[/quote]

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