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Remember that Iran and Iraq fought each other for 10 years to a rough stalemate, which indicates to me that Iran has some relatively decent conventional forces. Iran's conventional forces aren't a threat to the US. Put it this way:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-22-stealt...As the two Iranian aircraft moved to intercept the drone, one of the escorting Raptors also made a move and flew up underneath one of the approaching Phantoms. After taking a moment to glance up at the armament carried by the two F-4s, the F-22 pilot then pulled up alongside the left wing of one of the adversarial aircraft and hailed them, telling the Iranian pilots that they “really ought to go home”.Now recall that Iran is three times the geographic size of Iraq, with double the population. If you stumble into a war with them because of the macho breast beating you advocate, you better be ready for some serious troubles at home perhaps not sooner but definitely later.Sending a message after you've been the victim of unchecked aggression from a terror-sponsoring state does not automatically mean full-on war. Not even close.
When Trump whacked Qasem Soleimani, were we at war with Iran?
Consider that since 1979 we've effectively been waging an on-again, off-again low scale conflict.
