The first strike must be designed to take out the NY Times. Once this propoganda tool is silenced our men and women in the military will be safer.
Finally, ignore the arm chair generals who don't have a clue on strategy and tactics. The Viet Nam war was a mega circle jertk since a jerk tried to manage the field from afar. As a Viet Era Air Force Officer I/we argued at Sqaudron Officer's School for an Air Force oriented attack venue. We bombed the jungle into a lunar waste land and defoliated triple canopy jungle but in two weeks of Christmas bombing when we sent the B52s to Hanoi we accomplised in 14 days what we didn't do in 8 plus years and 50,000 plus dead.
I say start now by dropping a few hundred tons of manure on the NYT and then tell Ahmadinejad that he personally is next with a million gallons of pig urine...save the nukes for the second round!