text: is iran a short guy with a serious complex or is it bluffing and knows it would be destroyed? iran and iraq fought to a stalemate for decades.  we beat iraq in under 100 hours, and that was with us saying..."we want to keep this stuff nice because we are handing it over after, so don't break things" how dumb is iran to think we couldn't take them in  literally 25 minutes from "war begins" to please usa muhammed begs for your forgiveness? no they want their independence and want to be respected, granted they are going about it the wrong way, but they are afraid that mcdonald's and coke cola will really mess up their life.   militarily, we can destroy their military in under 30 days, but do we really want another "iraq" to police?