[cripplecreek]

I agree. However in this case the nuke facilities are buried deep underground. We will need some swat teams or some entity to go in there in some fashion to verify the facilities were destroyed. But that doesn't have to mean the conventional approach of taking over an entire country.

Agreed, break their nuclear infrastructure and possibly stir unrest with a clear message that we will support moderates if they assume control.

[plain talk]

Yep. The point being that there are smart ways to do this and smarter people than us can devise the plans. Having said all this it would be a huge deal with lots of risks. However it is tradeoff of uncertain risks vs obama’s course of known risks of entire cities being destroyed.