There's no mutually assured destruction doctrine here. We could destroy their entire capacity consequence free. We like having a nation we can drop bombs on when we want to. It's not about winning it's about prolonging the conflict
You have a lot of military bases in the Middle East. Oil installations are, no surprise, in the Middle East. The Strait of Hormuz is in the Middle East. Not to mention the blowback? No consequences? Modern western man has a short memory.
You do one pinprick attack on a site (the long-term consequences of which we have yet to see), and some people's conclusion is "we're da bomb, we can bomb whoever we want, whenever we want, and there's never any consequences for us". That's the mentality that led to the blowback on 9/11, and which led you into Iraq, and 20 years of war in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
There's no mutually assured destruction doctrine here. We could destroy their entire capacity consequence free. We like having a nation we can drop bombs on when we want to. It's not about winning it's about prolonging the conflict
How sure are you about that?
Who the fuck could stop them?
You have a lot of military bases in the Middle East. Oil installations are, no surprise, in the Middle East. The Strait of Hormuz is in the Middle East. Not to mention the blowback? No consequences? Modern western man has a short memory.
You do one pinprick attack on a site (the long-term consequences of which we have yet to see), and some people's conclusion is "we're da bomb, we can bomb whoever we want, whenever we want, and there's never any consequences for us". That's the mentality that led to the blowback on 9/11, and which led you into Iraq, and 20 years of war in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
Was a win for Israel though and that is all that matters in the end.