War in Cyprus, Tufy, Magic, Whats goin on? Options

[hitcachi]

Its been all over the news now for awhile. The tensions are so high right now between the Isralies and Lebanon (Hazbohalla). They are having to evacuate all those Americans out of Lebanon and CNN has been in Cyprus the past couple days reporting. Whats goin on over there and where are you guys at in Cyprus? Im pretty sure something is going to happen with Israel and American is going to go to war again very soon.

[97sccelica]

If they dare to mess with Syria and Iran as well then I really fear that we will witness a true war with thousands of deaths and not the b.s. war the U.S. made in Iraq.
Libanon and Palestinians may not really have any weapons but the Syria and Iran have fully equipped armies

I'm first generation American. my parents and their respective families came from iran.

yea, they have a fully equiped army, and its pretty big considering every boy that gets to be a teenager is conscripted/drafted into the army. its actually why my dad's family immigrated here in the 1950's, he was about that age where he would have to go into the army. my mom's family came over in the 1960's because of the political climate

so yea
good sized and equipped army

but oh man, some of the stories i have heard about how the soldiers are trained are hilarious. i have a friend that was drafted to fight in the iran-iraq war. his training was basically this. they sent him to one of the edges of the front, where there was less action, gave him a gun and said the enemy is that way as they pointed in the direction of iraq. his "training" lasted 2 weeks, after which he was given 4 days of R&R, then he was to go to the main part of the war for an undisclosed amount of time. needless to say he and his family packed up and came to America in those 4 days.

one of the attack methods he was taught was this: take a dirt bike and put two people on it. one guy drives, the other holds a bazooka. charge the enemy, get as close as u can, fire the bazooka then come back and repeat the process . they, especially the gunner, usually didnt make it back.

pretty much the only thing that makes the iranian army forceful is that the people in charge dont care how many men they lose. unfortunately, that mentality/policy usually makes for a very bloody war.

to ad fuel to the fire, Israel is surrounded by countries that would love to see Israel conquered. because of this, like a cornered animal, they always snap at any movement against them. they have a very well equipped and trained army, and like Iran, everyone goes into the army at some point in their life, damn near all of them are trained to fight.

i hope there isnt a full scale war.