Reply #159: So Iran and China.

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Yeah. That's likely. Sure.

I understand that Iran is considered to be both a bogeyman and an irrational actor by RWW militarists, but really, how are they going to get those planes within striking range of the US? Or perhaps you meant 'attack our forces occupying Iraq'? Why would they do that? We handed Iraq over to their shiite allies. WTF interest would they have in messing that up? Israel appears to be perfectly capable of blowing Iran off the map, so that doesn't appear to be real problem either.

China? China seems to be pretty much a rational player, so as attacking a nuclear armed state with fighter aircraft would appear to be a pretty insane thing to do, I have to sort of laugh at this idea. Except of course that it isn't really funny and is what is being used as the justification for spending 100s of billions of taxpayer dollars on our planetary offense force.

How about we stand down instead?