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The real lesson of viet nam was that you cannot occupy a country that does not want to be occupied. This is also the lesson of Iraq, Korea, Afghanistan, among many other examples through history. You can destroy it (perhaps) by exterminating every man, woman and child but you cannot occupy it.

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This is totally wrong. Where did you learn history? When will people stop comparing everything to Vietnam where is no real comparison? I'm also pretty sure the South Koreans would disagree with you.

As far as the OP goes, these reports look like the military is planning and being prepared for any contigency. That's what they do. Better to be prepared then caught with your pants down. Besides, this news also serves the purpose of telling Iran that we might be coming. It's a bit of a political scare tatic to see if they'll back off. If not then I'm sure the US willl push it a little harder.

If Iran continues with it's current path though and does develop or comes close to developing a nuclear threat then at the least I think you'll see some airstrikes to wipe out some of their nuclear ability. It fairly hard to predict what would happen after that though. It depends on how people react.