Posted on 12/05/2005 11:16:49 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Want to Bet? If their survival is at stake, I'm betting on the Isrealis.
I don't believe Israel could do it.
Israel will not conduct a sustained attack on the Iranian nukes since Israel has no direct airspace contact with Iran. That the US might allow Israel to conduct on-going operations over Iraq or Saudi might allow Israel to overfly Saudiland at all is beyond possible. Turkey might allow the overflights, but this might easily ratchet up to general war.
Wonder why they canned it, I thought it a good idea.
Iran can only do this if and when there is a Democrat in the White House. The US, with a Republican in the WH, will destroy any country that uses the next nuclear weapon. Iran is not the only likely candidate.
B-2's B-1's B-52G's
Go get um boys...the future of the Planet depends upon us
and what we do soon.
25 F-15Is. Total F-15s - As, Bs, Cs, Ds & Is - ~88.
Something called the 'Roman Candle' effect. A significant portion of the blast would travel back up the hole the bomb drilled for itself. This would spread high level fallout locally and lose the benefits of a 'surgical' strike. Remember that Iran has built civilian housing, schools and hospitals over the targets...
I think the seriousness of this would be such that even a Democrat president would have to respond.
Very Creative,
May I suggest a side of hummus with the mutton.
but beware the Scottish Sheep Anti Defamation League's wrath.
Remember - sheep aren't just for dinner
They DON'T need friendly air space and further... they DON'T have to strike with airpower.
interesting.
And next year it'll be a quarter of a century since the strike.
Don't assume that the IAF wouldn't be above flying one way missions either.
That makes me sick. Only countries like Iran do stuff like that.
Iran's nuclear weapons program is fairly well distributed over numerous locations. Whoever attacks it will have to attack many difficult targets.
We keep hoping Israel will do it because we know that their leadership is serious, and united enough to launch an attack like this, and stick together through all of the counter-attacks and international outcry that would surely follow.
We hope this because we fear that we are not sufficiently united to accomplish this same attack. We know that we are the best suited, in terms of equipment and basing; this is precisely the kind of attack our forces are designed for. But we know that we are not united enough to carry this out. The president who ordered it would risk impeachment, the party that supported it would be pounded in the press, at the UN, on every campus. Few politicians are prepared to take that kind of political risk.
And so we hope Israel will do it. But they don't have the reach to take out 80 hardened targets 2000 kilometers from home. We do.
While you may be right re a change in govt. being the only viable option, if Israel go nuclear without having been attacked then they render themselves a pariah that will make it seem as though they have been the nmost popular country on Earth for the last fifty years. First use of nukes in a pre-emptive attack will be seen as beyond the par. I doubt even America would publically endorse this for Israel....
perhaps france or china or india or north korea should lend a 777 fueler............
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