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No American blood need be spilt in conflict with Iran? Why would it need to be even if we let Israel get steam rolled? Does Iran have ambitions in the Americas? If it's about oil and imperialism than plenty of American blood has already been spilt in the ME and Israel was less helpful than Europe.
Yes. An Iran with the ability to do so would be meddling in western hemisphere geopolitics; they already do a little bit with backing anti-American regimes(granted, their support to Cuba doesn’t amount to much).
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Why would it when Iran is focused on harassing Israel and its other neighbors? A full scale war in the ME between the two is much more likely to draw in the US, which will eventually generate a backlash and possibly cause the US-Israel alliance to break down
There is the problem then of, either a mass refugee crisis or another holocaust-level-genocide. America will get dragged into that methinks.
Yes. A consistent problem with left of center perspectives on ME policy is mistaking Islamic countries' incompetence with lack of ambition. If they had the means Iran and their proxies would roll into Tel Aviv, kill 7 million Jews, and then be onto southern Europe, then Northern and then they'd start thinking about crossing the sea.
I mean, I wish it was about oil an imperialism. Its actually about civilizational conflict, and you might have noticed that Israel is conducting a 60 year+ defensive war on that front while being mostly on our side.
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