“Just for fun: What if a “Cowboy” (European definition, not High Noon) president, with a short temper, decided on a recon in force action…that is, like Sherman to Atlanta, marched a couple of columns from one side of Iran to the other (plus one from the sea?) that visited each interesting site, then left?

Found this quote from November 1950 yesterday:

“there are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go”
- Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC – when a journalist asked him about being surrounded by 22 enemy divisions