As I said, this is the wrong war at the wrong time. Too many people believe in the equivalent of magic: “shock and awe” bombing, which did not work in the past, superman American and Israeli commandos who make Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee look like 90 pound weaklings, pretty young women who light cigarettes from the burning photos of the dead ayatollah somehow toppling a vicious police state. However, if the United States backs away from the really tough and costly measures needed to win and withdraws, it will diminish our position as the world's preeminent power, hand control of a significant portion of the world's energy supplies, and strengthen the hand of Red China, our primary enemy and rival.
Whatever Israel's role in initiating this war, the United States is in it now, and half measures and magic will not work.