The War In Iraq: Our Options

[12th Doctor]

There is only one pro that I can see in invading Iran... Iran, unlike Iraq, is a "nation".  They have a common identity, common history, etc.  For that reason, it is far less likely that we would see nearly the level of violence or resistance that we are seeing in Iraq and there would probably be greater acceptance of a new Iran.

The two obvious cons are that Iran has three times the population that Iraq does, so we would have to hold down the situation in Iraq while invading into an even larger country.  Something we could never hope to do unless we had serious international help, which I highly doubt woudl be forth coming... the French really have the only significant military power left to help us, and I doubt they would get involved.

Secondly, in Iraq, we invaded over the plains and drove to the moutains (sorta) in Iran, you woudl have to drive over the moutains to get to the plains, another highly unattractive option.