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I would simply like to go on record as saying that it's a really bad idea for the US to get our military involved with Iran, especially when we have troops stationed on either side of Iran in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

That's a fairly broad swath of land for us to try to control, with about 8 or ten separate ethnicities and at least three governments to co-opt, just in those three countries.
Remember folks, you heard it here first.

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(And, you know, the governments of Jordan, Syria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan aren't the most stable things either. Take a good look at that map and figure out how YOU would get all of potentates and non-democratic nations in Central Asia to behave themselves.)