[dinok]

"If (Israel) decides to deal with Iran, it will fully commit."

I have a feeling you are no longer discussing conventional warfare. If Israel crosses the line to nuclear weaponry, it would have to use multiple warheads as the Iranian program is spread out to multiple sites. Such an attack is mechanically possible, but politically suicidal for Israel.

My read on this issue is that the US will drag this out until the Europeans and others are asking us...probably begging us, to do something. Then the action will have solid backing internationally in both diplomatic and military form.

[johnny7]

...the US will drag this out until the Europeans and others are asking us...probably begging us, to do something.

Europe will balk at military action... and there is no consensus for us to go to war alone for a perceived threat to Israel.

Israel will use whatever it takes to erase the threat.