Think about it.  There are some fantastic advantages.

First, it’s a Muslim country.  Unsympathetic folks they are, dress funny, men wear skirts, women hide their faces some of the time, not at all cute or photogenic.  Believe in “Allah”, a rough equivalent of Hitler or Stalin.

Second, it’s got oceans of oil.  Simply oceans of it.  After the war the oil can be sold to Western oil companies and the taxes on their profits will pay for the war over the next 565 years.  A no lose situation, everyone benefits.  In fact, we could cut taxes on their profits so they would make more and pay for the war faster.  (That is called “tinkle down” economics and loved by the tinklers.)

Third, the rascals are working on nuclear power even though they have more oil than God and don’t need it.  And Israel says they are working on nuclear weapons.  We know how good the Mossad is.  So they have a WMD program.  We need to keep nuclear weapons out of the area except for Israels and the ones we have.  Maybe the Brits could have a couple dozen.  Peace, freedom and security demand it be a nuclear free Zone.  Anything else would destabilize the area.

Fourth, it will be easy.  We already occupy Iraq and Afghanistan on either side, and it’s a short hop to bomb the bejesus out of them.  Saves wear and tear on airplanes, soldiers don’t have to walk as far.

Fifth, they need liberating.  This government came to power by overthrowing the Shah, a legitimate dictator with a progressive political agenda.   Although now technically a democracy, their so-called leaders are simply puppets of the religious radicals who are bitter because they are going to hell.  One needs to accept Jesus as their one and only true personal savior before they can avoid the Wrath.  Invading and occupying Iran is the surest way to exchange those skirts and headgear for kneepads and a statue of the Virgin Mary.  And paraffin is a by-product of oil refinery, so there will be scads of votive candles.

Sixth, though Russia and China may object, they are easily handled.  Tell them to butt out and they have to.  Aim a few of our nukes at them and let it drop what the targets are.  If they try to stick a submarine in the area (they have no carriers to spare), sink it, claiming it was thought to be a crazed whale trying to mate with the US sub.  How can they disprove that?  Especially when pictures of where the paint has been knocked off the sub are shown.  No more unbelievable than that a guided missile cruiser mistook a scheduled civilian airliner for an unaccompanied bomber and shot it down.  Got away with that one.

What’s to not like?  It’s all good.  After all, why do we have an army and air force, and all those expensive ships if we can’t liberate the pagans, secure the area for democracy, and pick up a couple of  hundreds of billion barrels of oil for the more progressive companies?  It would be criminal to not invade the bastards for their own good, really.

Arf