The talk of hundreds of thousands of troops or occupying Iran, while correct, is simply silly -- that is not the modern way the US wages war.
As demonstrated in Vietnam, Iraq and now in Afghanistan, the US can "lose" wars as long as it sufficiently destroys the target country.
Money? Who cares? The US ruling class doesn't. The military-industrial complex makes their money so they're happy. Most of the 1% profits from gov't debt and other expenditures, so they're happy.
The goal of US wars is not "occupation" -- that's so WWII. The goal is punishment and destroying countries who dare to be independent and to not do what the US gov't tells them to do.
That is the reason for laying waste to Vietnam, Iraq, etc. It is the reason the US still maintains an embargo on Cuba. Disobedience and true independent is punished by the US gov't.
And, given some time, the countries wiped out by the US will perhaps come back to the US and beg some scaps from our economic table, just as Vietnam has done, and just as Iraq is doing.
The talk of hundreds of thousands of troops or occupying Iran, while correct, is simply silly -- that is not the modern way the US wages war.
As demonstrated in Vietnam, Iraq and now in Afghanistan, the US can "lose" wars as long as it sufficiently destroys the target country.
Money? Who cares? The US ruling class doesn't. The military-industrial complex makes their money so they're happy. Most of the 1% profits from gov't debt and other expenditures, so they're happy.
The goal of US wars is not "occupation" -- that's so WWII. The goal is punishment and destroying countries who dare to be independent and to not do what the US gov't tells them to do.
That is the reason for laying waste to Vietnam, Iraq, etc. It is the reason the US still maintains an embargo on Cuba. Disobedience and true independent is punished by the US gov't.
And, given some time, the countries wiped out by the US will perhaps come back to the US and beg some scaps from our economic table, just as Vietnam has done, and just as Iraq is doing.