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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
You seem a bit to happy about that. I would hope that Israel is smart enough not to dust up the Europeans and the Russians, but if they wan't to play, see how quick Iran snaps back.
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Israel wouldn't be invading Iran. Airstrikes are what they are thinking of. That's a difficult mission when one considers
geography, but not an impossible one.
When one considers the possible consequences of an Israeli strike versus a nuclear armed Iran, I'll bet the Israeli's reluctantly accept the former rather than face the latter. There really isn't any other option for them. Besides, nobody in Europe or Russia will do more than shed a few crocodile tears and pull a few hairs over it. The Islamic Republic of Iran just isn't that important to the Europeans or the Russians.
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There is good reason nobody has tried to invade Iran since Saddam, and there is good reason Saddam lost. It is the SAME reason the US didn't invade Iraq in the 1990s, and we found out the hard way after we did why we shouldn't have, which is the same reason all huff and puff aside, Israel would never want to fuck with Iran. Their only hope is that the US would back them up, which we would, and which is why I dislike Israel for milking it for all its worth, meanwhile accepting BILLIONS of US subsidy dollars while my own state of California is short a BILLION in university education, and FOUR BILLION in public education and most Israelis go to great schools 
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Saddam didn't lose. The war was effectively a stalemate, although at the end of it Iraq had won several significant victories and it was Khomeini that came begging for peace. Had Iraq actually lost that war, it's army would not have been in a condition to invade Kuwait a mere 2 years later.
The reason why the US did not continue it's offensive into Iraq was because the Congress had only authorized the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Republican presidents might like to go to war, but at least they do it with Congressional approval and within the bounds set by Congress.
In fact the 2003 invasion of Iraq was in military terms fairly easy, it was over in six weeks. It was the occupation period that was difficult, but even that large scale insurgency was ultimately defeated.