By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
As expected, boosters for the war against Iran now admit what everyone knew when President Trump scrapped the Constitution and attacked the country on behalf of Israel. An air campaign will not bring Iran to heel.
That leaves one option: Ground troops — hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines on the ground, slugging it out in a country that Israel-First armchair warriors know nothing about.
The problem: U.S. armed forces, avers an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post, could be as many as 1 million men short of what it will take to conquer the country. The solution: Tell young American men that all debts will be forgiven in return for enlisting in the Army or Marines.
Author A.J. Jaff, former Canadian military, isn’t the first to propose ground troops. The late Israel-First GOP Senator Lindsey Graham suggested that President Trump should dispatch the Marines. Neocon podcaster Ben Shapiro explained that Americans would happily accept tens of thousands of dead and wounded Americans if all that blood meant defeating Iran.
Jaff explained that “the Pentagon reportedly asked outside analysts this month for creative ideas on Iran. That request itself is worth paying attention to. Over 180 days into a war that produced the most intensive American air campaign since Iraq in 2003, the CIA has now confirmed what the strike data was already reflecting.”
Then Jaff offered the reasons why the war seems stalemated:
First, Iran’s military capacity did not collapse. Second, air power resolved neither the institutional problem nor the negotiating problem. Third, the Pentagon still lacks the tools needed to end the war with the Islamic Republic.
Three moves remain available and must be calculated within the Pentagon and the American administration.
One move is Congress’ recognizing the independence of Iranian minorities: “Kurds in the western Kurdistan province of Iran and surrounding regions; Ahwazi Arabs in Khuzestan, sitting on top of Iran’s oil; the Baluchis in the southeast; and the Azeris in the northwest. Together, these populations account for approximately 50% of Iran’s over 90 million citizens.”
The third move is guaranteeing Red China access to Iranian oil after the war in return for China’s withdrawing material and diplomatic support for Iran now.
But the second move might be the most frightening: Sign up for war and you will be debt free…
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/foreign-policy/op-ed-ground-troops-needed-to-defeat-iran-u-s-army-1m-short-recruitment-drive-should-include-total-debt-forgiveness/
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