Reply #79: Simply this:

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The OP was all about how Iran is a great military power, and we should be shaking in our boots. Well, I'm not. The Iranian army, navy, and air force is no match for the US. Would we take some losses in a conventional war? Certainly. Would we "lose"? I doubt it. What we would likely lose, as in Iraq, is a post-war occupation.

Although frankly, I think if we get into a war with Iran, it'll end up going nuclear and there won't be anything left to occupy. And there are plenty of good reasons, totally apart from that, for us NOT to go to war with Iran or anybody else for that matter.

But I'm not in awe of the Iranian military. I would not want to see us go to war with China, or with Russia as those are end-of-the-world scenarios.

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