The Isreali government has "weeks" (not months), to act upon the threat. If they don't take action by November...it starts to become too late. My guess is that Iran has positioned numerous SAMS around the site and will shoot down anything approaching. So the options are simple: (1) send in two waves, thus taking out the SAMS first and then the site, (2) utilize a ground action and simply get close enough to destroy the site with some high-explosive, and (3) do nothing and allow the UN/EU/US take care of your situation.
The EU stood up this week and demanded (a tidy word) that a full report be given by mid-November by the UN Nuclear crowd. The report will likely be negative...but no one in the EU is saying what will happen next. Some political comments out of France and Germany hint at sanctions...but that means that you sit and wait for them to manufacture dozens of missiles with warheads...and pretend that they might have taken down the sites (the Saddam game). The US can do nothing because of its over-stretched situation. And amusingly enough, none of the Iranian neighbors care about this situation at all. Even Russia isn't bothered (the payoffs and bribes helped).
Is Isreal ever had a chance to clean up a nasty mess...its right now. Waiting doesn't improve your sitaution.
I agree. I think Israel should do it now.
The Islamic bomb has their name on it, out of hatred and out of close proximity.
But if the Islamofascists had the means to deliver it, they would hit any number of our cities as well.
After everything that they have done, what sane person could now think they wouldn't do it?
As evil as the Soviet Russians were, at least they weren't crazy.
I've had money on October 23 for the past two months.