Posted on 02/20/2006 6:19:44 PM PST by nuconvert
As I wrote before in other threads, size of Iran is more than California, Texas and New York State put together, is covered with mountains (large part of territory is above 5,000 feet) and has 70 million people.
How do you imagine the attack?
Easy.
Bombardment of known nuclear facilities: one week.
Insertion/Extraction of follow-up Spec-Ops demolition teams: one week.
Destruction of all command and control infrastructure: (Concurrent with first week): One week.
Decapitation of leadership: (Concurrent with first week) two weeks.
Cordon of major oil producing fields in the south: TBD.
Any questions?
I was thinking that the Iranian threat to stop the flow of oil.
Any questions?
What is the chance of success of your simple prescription?
Look. There is one way and one way only this is going to go down.
The "international community" (yeah, right) is going to tighten the screws on Iran until they do what they have already threatened to do which is to close the Straight of Hormuz.
When they do that, it will be an act of war against the whole oil consuming world.
Yes, oil prices will rise.
But EVERYONE (ChiComs included) will want nothing more than that the US re-open the Straight, stop the strangle-hold and bring the price back down.
And NO ONE will care about a little "colateral damage" to Iran's nuclear facilities.
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