Look how quickly we defeated Iraq....twice. They won't keep us from commanding the skies. For that reason, they'll never be able to maneuver any large forces against ours. If anything, we've held back in past conflicts and made "proportional responses" to terrorist attacks. They really don't want to play around with us.
This crisis is beyond serious. Our nukes are not going to be used to send Iran to the 10th century, if they are used at all. Conventional airpower can do great damage, but is our intel adequate to serve up all the targets we need to get on the first try? I don't know. Does anyone? These maniacs have picked the absolute best time to strut. We are involved in a conflict which grows increasingly unpopular and which is stretching our conventional resources. We are unpopular around the world. Our President seems hamstrung by the unpopularity of his policies and the despicable backstabbing done them by Dems and some GOPers. The last thing Bush wants is another conflict and I think Iran knows this. So watch them strut and prance on the stage until they really have a true deliverable nuke or until Israel takes matters into its own hands. Ours, meanwhiler are IMO tied.