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Originally Posted by JAD_333
ok...if the reactor is operational, of course, you don't strike it... I assume it is not, but thrust of my comment was to strike it's nuclear facilities and this is what is discussed by tactical pros in many papers. The rest is an elaboration of what I said, and I couldn't agree more with it.
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Most of the public domain pundits couldn't find thier
jackass with both hands and a GPS unit. There is no way to just hit Iran's nuclear facilties becuase the real threat is Iran's ability to impose an oil blockade. Any military action has to defeat this capability first, and they have 2 weeks to do it from the time the first shot is fired, after that there are no more tankers in transit from the ME oil feilds.
A lot of the so called experts who have taken a hawkish position think (or mislead people into thinking they do) that a surgical strike or two can defeat Iran. The truth is taking down Iran will be the hardest thing we have done since the end of active hostilities in Korea. Iran knows exactly how and what they need to do in order to strike back at the West in order to exact some equality of punishment if the West decides they must die. There is a reason Iran does not buy almost modern Russian fighters or Soviet era destroyers, but instead wants Chinese mines and anti-ship missiles and North Korean semi-submersible stealth FAC's.