Yes. Because us wiping out Iran means we scare the rest of the Arab world, gas gets so expensive that the entire military budget gets used up buying fuel for 3 F-18s and a carrier, and suddenly the Middle East explodes at each other, then at us, and it creates chaos. Besides, Russia will sell anything to anyone, and there's a lot of money in Iran, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc.
Things are still relatively stable because so far people play by "the rules". we do small-level conventional (well, sort of) operations, they use suicide bombers, it's terrible but no one's scared of entire cities getting blown away with bombs. (I'm talking about a larger scale than just Iraq.) Think of it this way- everyone's threatening each other with knives, but everyone has a gun in their back pocket. Knives are bad, but once someone pulls a gun everyone's going to go crazy, and you'll see something like the ending scene in reservoir dogs.
Things are still relatively stable because so far people play by "the rules". we do small-level conventional (well, sort of) operations, they use suicide bombers, it's terrible but no one's scared of entire cities getting blown away with bombs. (I'm talking about a larger scale than just Iraq.) Think of it this way- everyone's threatening each other with knives, but everyone has a gun in their back pocket. Knives are bad, but once someone pulls a gun everyone's going to go crazy, and you'll see something like the ending scene in reservoir dogs.
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