If one is going to make war, then DO IT. No small-time, halfway stuff. That's worse than doing nothing.
Petraeus is correct. Nationalism would be stoked, even further, and more successfully than it is now in Iran.
Who saifd anything about limited? I talking sinking every naval vessel, destroying every naval port and dock, taking out every military air base, shooting down every combat aircraft and IRGC helicopter, destroying every missle, rocket, and anti-aircraft platform that shows it’s radar, destroying every military base, taking out every IRGC and Basji barack in the country, every command and control asset that they activate...but leave all civilian targets such as gass lines, power plants cell towers alone. Give warning and then blow the crap out of the IRNA and IRIB...See how well they can keep the Iranian people under their boot *then*.