Scott Horton

Now, the question is, same as now, can America defeat them, like ultimately crush their military and degrade their government forces, potentially even to the point of collapse?

Sure.

I mean, even short of nukes, we have B-52s.

People have seen the footage of the B-52s just pouring what they call carpet bombing over North Vietnam.

We could do that to Tehran, right?

Does America have the ability to do that?

Yeah.

But...

Will they have a say in a conflict?

Even if we went to total air war against them like that, would they have a say in the conflict?

Yes, they would.

And we would not have escalation dominance, which means their idea that they would control every stage of the war, whether it ramps up or ramps down or whatever it is, that it's all on them to decide what happens next in the war.

The other guys are only ever reacting to us.

They don't want to fight unless it's that unfair of a fight.

And they're saying it won't be.

They will be able to reach out and touch us.

Now, at that time, we had something like 50,000 guys in Afghanistan and 150,000 guys in Iraq.

And especially in Iraq, they were embedded with Shiite forces.

And Sadr's forces and the Supreme Islamic Council's forces, the Bada Brigade, had both sworn that they would take Iran's side and kill our guys who they were embedded with, who we'd been fighting the war for this whole time.

that they would all be order 66 right out of there.