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If Iran is seriously and publically attacked, America will lose Iraq completely, and the greater Gulf region will be destabilized. America might not have cared about countries like Laos and Cambodia, but the whole world does care when its oil supply is disrupted. This raid is probably just what it appears. A way to get intelligence and proof of Iranian interference in Iraq, not a full-fledged provocation for war.
I dislike how states like Iran and Syria and to a lesser extent, Venezuela, who are not under America's thumb, are being made into pariah states. Even most of the media does not question this viewpoint anymore. Their not the "good guys" by any standard, especially Iran, but their being threatened, and by cornering them and painting them as evil is not going to make it any better. America had a chance to improve relationships with all these states, but it always seems to want enemies.
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