[Strategerist]

Three weeks to ‘Mission Accomplished’ then 15-20 years to weed out the dissenters/partisans/terrorists and then rebuild the nation $$$$$$

We're certainly not physically invading the Iranian mainland on the ground and overthrowing the government. That's not what the article discusses, and we're not actually capable of doing so, anyway.

[ScottinVA]

We're certainly not physically invading the Iranian mainland on the ground and overthrowing the government. That's not what the article discusses, and we're not actually capable of doing so, anyway.

Which means we would not accomplish what the article supposes. Without getting on the ground and schwacking them directly, "victory" will not occur.

Besides, the unwieldy ROE slapped on our side would prevent it.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”We're certainly not physically invading the Iranian mainland on the ground and overthrowing the government. That's not what the article discusses, and we're not actually capable of doing so, anyway.”

This has all the signs of nothing more than a Diplomatic bluff but if say a Romney was POTUS and he started talking like he was serious about it we would have to critically ask what the end-game would be because that certainly was never talked about seriously in the 2002/2003 run-up to Iraq.

Brushing the Iraq defenses a-side was childs play. It was the nightmare that followed that was not thought out seriously.