Heck, maybe our military has become so good at "precision" warfare that Iran would not be as "expensive" as Iraq. After all, they are supposed to have learned something in the last fiasco. Let's cut the damage by a third:What is striking to me is the glibness with which the Right wing speaks of an attack on Iran. The UN Security Council has not authorized the use of force against Iran, and Tehran has not attacked any other country. A strike on Iran is therefore a war crime, more especially since it would release radioactive toxins on the people of Isfahan and of the Middle East more generally.
Besides, proponents never say how they would pay for such a war. Iran is three times as populous and geographically much larger than Iraq. So multiply everything in that war by three to get the cost
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Immediate cost: $3 trillion
Long term cost, including veteran care: $9 trillion
US troops killed: 15,000
US troops fairly seriously wounded: 100,000
Iranian dead: 1 – 3 million
Iranian displaced: 12 million
Anyone who advocates such a thing is a sort of monster, in my view.
Still monstrous and criminal.Immediate cost: $2 trillion
Long term cost, including veteran care: $6 trillion
US troops killed: 10,000
US troops fairly seriously wounded: 60,000
Iranian dead: 1 – 2 million
Iranian displaced: 8 million
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