Here’s Tom Cotton, one of the most hawkish members of the U.S. Senate, claiming that America could defeat Iran in a war with “two strikes, the first strike and the last strike.” As the Trump administration continues to ratchet up tensions with Iran, warmongers like Cotton are coming out of the woodwork to discuss possible military intervention, even a “first strike”, against a third world nation halfway across the globe that could not possibly threaten the national security of the U.S. As was the case in the build up to the Iraq War in 2002 and 2003, war proponents like Cotton are quick to assure Americans that a war against Iran would be quick and easy. Neoconservative leader Bill Kristol claimed Iraq would be a “two-month war”. It ended up lasting 8 years officially and America remains militarily involved there. Iran is four times the size of Iraq with twice its population and has shown no signs that they would wilt easily to a U.S. invasion.
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