Pentagon preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, Washington Post reports

And do what exactly????

Iran has a thousand miles of coast line, it's a huge rugged, mountainous country. Also trump is letting Iran oil tanker leave unmolested, and they are returning laden with munitions, again unmolested. We aren't even blockading them. WTF are ground troops supposed to do.

The best theory I've heard so far is that trump doesn't want the war to end, because he is using it like the tariffs last year with the TACO trade, to make insider trades in the stock and futures markets. He is literally killing US troops and Iranian children just to make money.

I think more Americans need to know that Iran is big. Here's a view from thetruesize.com. If you could move Iran to the US, it would stretch from Florida to Iowa to New Jersey.

Iran is 3.5 times larger than Iraq and roughly twice the population. That’s a handy comparison because we know what it took to invade and then hold Iraq: coalition forces peaked at half a million deployed personnel during the invasion. Iran is bigger in every way and so would demand a larger army and thus an absolutely enormous investment of troops, money and fundamentally lives in order to subdue.

-- Bret Devereaux, The War in Iran

lol "weeks"

Quagmire. So what about those Trump-Epstein Files?

To be fair, the Afghanistan war only lasted weeks. About a thousand of them, but still.

Aw shit, here we go again

All we have to do is kick in the rotten door and the whole thing will surely collapse. - History

Into the meat grinder you go.