Here's a good move for the UN Security Council to enact right now: vote to instruct all nations to immediately stop selling oilfield equipment and spare parts to Iran until Iran 1) returns the 15 Britons, and 2) agrees to permanently stop uranium enrichment. Then put together a coalition to enforce the ban on oilfield equipment sales. If Iran runs out of money, then just give them Ag equipment and supplies so they can still feed their people. Watch how fast the mullahs agee to take that deal when those fat oil cash flows stop rolling in. It's time for an all-out effort to boost oil production capacity outside of Iran and then shut down Iran's oil industry. I would bet that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Brazil, and Russia have already increased oil production capacity enough to make up for all of Iran's lost production. Those independent oil companies here in the US have also done a remarkable job of increasing US production. Our production is up about 1 MM barrels per day from 4 years ago.
Unfortunately the real dynamic of a "Low Intensity Conflict" is quite different. In comparison WWII while long and bloody was a snap. Battle lines clearly drawn. Enemy largely in one place at a time and wearing identifiable uniforms....yada yada yada. Today it's not quite so simple. Today the bad guys strike like the cowards they are and slip away like smoke. Much as I rail against the entire populations of countries like Syria and Iran, I find it a bit much of a stretch to advocate the atomization of every man woman and child who obviously has no link to terrorists and just happens to be living in a country with a terrorist nutjob for a President.
Even if the tangos managed to detonate a nuke (a la 24 w/Jack Bauer) on US soil, how many of you would walk next door and smoke your Arab neighbor in retaliation? Not me. It's not quite as easy as you might think.
Even in the act of kicking a$$, we're still going to lose some considerable numbers of American soldiers. Enough to make the losses in Iraq pale in comparison. The only way to win a war is to invade the country and seize the land itself. It has been thus since the dawn of time. All the high tech weapons in the world have made the job of the infantryman a little bit easier, but still necessary.