The situation with Iran is a nightmare. We would need an invasion/occupation force of about 500,000 men--and we don't have it!Beautiful and classic "straw man".
Only an idiot would plan such a scenario.
We can simply bomb Iran farther into the stone age, and repeat as necessary indefinitely.
Not a single American foot needs to go there.
My comments were concerning the article's statement about regime change through bombing. If my comments struck you as idiotic, then I would have to say that advocating using nukes to send them back to the stone age is, at best, sophomoric.
(If you were not advocating first use of nukes, then my apology, but when the phrase “back to the stone age” is most commonly used, it is preceded by “Nuke ‘em.”)
Of course, what you have asserted is what pentagon planners erroneously thought after WWII; that nuclear weapons make foot soldiers unnecessary.