Well "Shock and Awe" worked very well. So well, the Iraqi military didn't fight back. Too bad the game just doesn't end there and rolls some needless credits.
Well there are a few differences. The Iraqi army wasn't just 35 miles from say Riyadh with shitloads of missiles and artillery. It's not just a giant sand lot. Saddam didn't have a mutual defense treaty with a 500lb gorilla. And Saddam was dumb enough to think that sitting there for 6 months while the US built up a pretty massive force, was somehow going to work out differently than it did. The fat kid only has to look back at that recent sequence and ponder any huge US build up. Never mind what the PRC would think of a massive US buildup without a nuanced agreement about what happens next, but just having FFvC's tweets to ponder. Also, would SK be accepting of a massive US buildup, like SA did and wanted?
The PRC might not mind the US destroying NK nuclear facilities, as long as we didn't invade, but they most probably don't want a unified Korea with the US military poised to be on their doorstep. But if we just destroyed NK nuclear facilities, would the fat kid just sit back and take it? Or would he unleash his army in an attack on Seoul? It is fairly easy to tell how it could begin. But it is much harder to tell how it would end. Attacking NK, in whatever form, cowboy style would be quite reckless. But building a coalition of regional players that work towards a common purpose would be quite the deal for a real statesman. To bad we currently have a clown...
