To summarize:
- sitting with our thumbs up our collective butts and doing nothing (aka the "Jimmy Carter Model") didn't work.
- Letting the unUnited Nations handle the problem, through the IAEA, hasn't worked.
- Promoting an insurgency from within Iran hasn't worked.
- Threatening them repeatedly while they kill our troops in Iraq hasn't worked.
Is it finally time for a ‘three-day blitz?'
The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.
Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.
Naturally, the U.S. Government has drawn up contingency plans for just about every possible scenario under the sun, so this report, in and of itself, isn't surprising. But has ignoring the problem for so many years finally pushed us into an all-or-nothing military confrontation with Iran?
With the Iranian claim today that they have reached their uranium centrifuge goal, we clearly cannot ignore the threat much longer. While a direct nuclear threat against the U.S. id probably still years away, the threat to Israel and other Gulf nations is not. There is also a significant likelihood that Iran could hand off such a weapon to terrorist groups or other rogue states, with "plausible deniability.
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