Massacre of the Innocents

[Angrboda]

What you are engaged in is called 'speculation' and can readily be dismissed as such.  Perhaps Herod simply wanted a fudge factor.  As it turns out, the magi weren't playing straight with Herod, so perhaps a bit of caution was warranted.  Regardless, what the magi actually told him and why he felt it was necessary to give the order he did is simply unrecorded.  Your speculation in the matter is worth dick.

Wow, 2 years is really farfetched...

Let see the journey from Egypt took Moses 40 years to go something like 250 miles.

Homer wrote that it took Ulysses 10 years to travel essentially 600 miles (by boat I may add).

But two years to travel from Iraq/Iran to Jerusalem is a somehow a bridge too far.

You fail to get the point. Why am I not surprised?