We have to realize that all three islamic sponsors of terror, Pakistan, iran, and saudi arabia need to be addressed.
To address all three countries, we would have to need public support all along.
It would be difficult to sustain public opinion over three wars, when we are already losing it over one such war in iraq.
As such the effort should be divided amongst different countries, so that we don't lose public opinion before all
three are addressed
The US effort should focus on helping and enabling other countries to take these islamic countries out.
1- Israel should first be enabled to take the iranian nuclear facilities out first. If iran resorts to terror afterwards, it would give us the backing of the world opinion to go for an occupation of iran.
If iran can split into several small states, it wouldn't turn into the problem we are encountering in iraq.
Infact we wouldn't have had a problem in iraq, if we had instead carved it up into small separate states. that way they wouldnt have joined hands against us and their hostility would have been directed at each other, much like the kurds against other iraqis.
2- We should couple our airpower with indian and russian forces to take out Pakistan. Let it be a major indian
effort with US involvement kept a secret, if possible.
Since this would be a war fought mainly by indian and russian forces,it would be characterized as a regional conflict and we wouldn't get the flak for it at world fora.
Since pakistan could easily be broken into 6-7 small states, states that would thank us for their independence, it would never degenerate into another iraq.
3- saudi arabia could be another iraq, since our continued presence would be needed there because of its oil wealth, as such it should be handled by US forces after the first two threats are addressed. Russia and india should again be recruited for this theater if possible.
it would call for an iraq like occupation unless some measures were devised to divide it into small states like qatar. A criterion would have to be devised it for though.
"We have to realize that all three islamic sponsors of terror, Pakistan, iran, and saudi arabia need to be addressed."
--The Paki Gov't no longer sponsors terrorism. Rogue elements of the ISID (Intelligence service) do, however.
"If iran can split into several small states, it wouldn't turn into the problem we are encountering in iraq.
Infact we wouldn't have had a problem in iraq, if we had instead carved it up into small separate states. that way they wouldnt have joined hands against us and their hostility would have been directed at each other, much like the kurds against other iraqis."
-- I've got a lot of problems with this. First off, there's no need to split up Iran. It is a hogoneous state of persian Shias and over three-quarters of the population are in favor of regime change. Iran can be changed through a people's revolution there very easily.
Second, Iraqis aren't holding hands in attacking us. Former Regime Elements (FREs) are atacking us and foreign terrorists are attacking us. al-Sadr's 13 year-old goons are occasionally attacking us, but is a very small problem. The overwhelming majority of Shias are peaceful towards us, but Iranian agents are rustling them up politically from time to time.
"Since pakistan could easily be broken into 6-7 small states, states that would thank us for their independence, it would never degenerate into another iraq."
--Why would you split up Pakistan? If for some reason we committed regime change in Pakistan, Pashtunistan should be carved out of the far west of Pakistan and given autonomy or given over to the Afghanis; they are essentially afghanis anyway. The rest of pakistan should rejoin mother India and correct one of the biggest mistakes of the 20th century: the partition of India.