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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow much chance do YOU think there is of a U.S. or Israeli missile strike on Iran?
And do you think such an act would do any good at all?
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Israel... 50/50.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)We're not going to start anything, but the result will be the same, we'll be dragged into it.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)pleading with BiBi to just chill the fuck out. At least till next year.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)when they do it...
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)So I think we will need to get through that meeting before we can get a good picture of the way forward.
I think an air strike could "do some good" (if you call that good) if only to destroy the entrance(s) into the underground facilities that they don't want us to destroy. Maybe we can't get a buster bunker deep enough to destroy it but we sure as hell can blow the crap out of the doorway and cause some cave ins. You do that four or five times and they might start to get the hint.
This does not mean that I support such an act, just answering your question about the probable success of air strikes.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)So, yes, I do think some good will come of such an attack, for varying values of "good".
The Israeli war drums have been beating so loud and so long I don't think they can back away at this point, sooner or later it's inevitable.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)YnetPublished: 02.27.12, 11:22 / Israel NewsIsraeli commando forces destroyed, with the help of Kurdish rebels, all of Iran's nuclear infrastructure on ground, an email by a US-based global security analysis company released by WikiLeaks on Monday claims. The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing more than five million emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor Global Intelligence, which has been likened to a shadow CIA. Stratfor officials said the release of its stolen emails was an attempt to silence and intimidate it.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4195342,00.html
Somewhat interesting - this was reported at the time on AJE blogs, although not reported anywhere else.
Anyway, if they are already destroyed, why would there be a need for a strike?
NickB79
(19,246 posts)At least 5 known nuclear sites, spread out from one side of Iran to the other, and each presumably heavily guarded and fortified. At least 2 are known to be buried deep underground, meaning once the alarms sound they can be sealed to an impenetrable state. And since an attack on one facility would alert the Iranian military, the assault would have to happen on all nuclear sites, in every corner of the country, at once.
Shit, did they use ninjas or something?
Javaman
(62,530 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Not unless Iran strikes first.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Apparently an Israeli surgical strike team already destroyed Irans nuclear capabilities.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)In my lifetime we've never attacked anyone who could fight back. Can't see them starting now.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
NickB79
(19,246 posts)"WASHINGTONPentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful, according to U.S. officials briefed on the plan."
And from what I've read, we haven't yet sold Israel any of these, only an older, weaker version.
The Israelis aren't stupid when it comes to military assaults. It's all bluster at this point.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)and I think it would be a disaster.