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To: gafusa
With what? Unless you propose nukes, Israel has nothing that can significantly hurt Iran. The IDF has no heavy aircraft, surface vessels or submarines, only fighters and small ships, only 3 small submarines, and no credible long range attack capability against a target such as Iran. Only the US can do this. And it is high time we do.

see my comment #28

31 posted on 07/15/2006 8:40:00 AM PDT by Migraine (...diversity is great (until it happens to you)...)
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To: Migraine

I doubt that would be enough, and difficult as well. Amajihad or whatever would be pretty easy to kill, he flies around a lot, and his plane could "crash". But his cult is more then just him, it pervades most the newer Iranian leadership. Plus assassinating targets inside Iran would not be easy, and I am sure they have heavy security. Israeli SF and intel is good, but cannot preform miracles. We cannot put off responsibility on Israel. The USN and USAF are the solutions, we could saturate Iran with cruise missiles and bombs. Plus we could assassinate as well, possibly in conjunction with the Israelis. We can infiltrate from Iraq, Afghanistan, or the sea, we have far greater capability to deploy SF than Israel. Israel does not control the surrounding area, and we have submarines and ships to deploy forces as well. Israeli forces may have more experience or skill for this, but we have far greater or better numbers, logistics, support, transportation/insertion methods, equipment and numbers and resources than they do.


51 posted on 07/15/2006 8:59:53 AM PDT by gafusa
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