I disagree with the general as long as the civilian casualties are minimal. And only military and governmental command and control targets are obliterated. Making sure to not only dispatch all combat aircrat ,but every helicopter that the IRGC can get up in the air, to make sure they can’t use their suppression forces for anything other than toasting marshmallows with.
You’re forgetting that in war, nothing goes accordingly to plan.
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.
It is just as likely that the Iranian people will blame their gov’t for inciting the attack, & take that opportunity to depose Imanutjob & the mullahs. If Israel can kill some of the Iranian leadership & the Republican Guard, the Iranian people's job will be that much easier.
If Israel is gonna do it, & I believe they will (Obama wouldn't do it in a thousand years), they need to target the head of the beast to kill it for good.