I entertain great doubts about the ability of the US to “flatten every airstrip in the country” without sustaining unacceptable losses. Now that the great success of Iraq is winding down is it time to begin anew? Maybe another success like Libya, where doctors cannot work anymore due to the breakdown of basic law and order.
We would eat Iran for lunch and have plenty left over for the next thugocracy...with a different CIC of course....