OK, we’ve got time.
We have many delivery options available.
I’ve got plenty of time. Let er rip!
We no longer have the capability to do more than a light scratch to Iran. Mr. Cotton needs to get up to speed, now that we’re at “The End of History”, where military capability is no longer needed.
Before any nuclear sites are bombed Iran’s retaliation capability would have to be destroyed.
They have very silent DE submarines among other arms.
IMO Geo. Bush, in concert with Israel, should have taken care of Iran years ago.
The longer it’s put off the more difficult it becomes.
Once the ayatollas are bombed and dead, what’s left?
Nothing.
Or one bomb a couple hundred miles up could EMP their sorry butts. Lights out. Do what we say and then the lights come back on. Otherwise tough tacos.
I’m no military expert but while I do agree with Senator Cotton that the U.S. military and whatever allies we could cobble together could indeed severely degrade the Iranian nuclear program through air and cruise missile strikes over a period of a few days that’s only if the Iranians agree to sit back and let us methodically destroy their nuke program. I seriously doubt they’ll be so accommodating. The $64,000 dollar question is how seriously will they retaliate. While any notion of some sort of conventional large scale land invasion of Iran is little more than hyperbole and a classic straw man the worst case and likely scenario is that the situation escalates completely out of control and the U.S. is staring down the barrel of a prolonged air campaign that more resembles the ‘99 NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia or the ‘91 air campaign over Iraq & Kuwait than Desert Fox. You’re looking at potentially thousands of aim points the USN and USAF have to take out and consequently the U.S. probably loses a handful of aircraft and aircrew that we later have negotiate to get back. And as sure as the sun rises you can count on the liberals and the “world community” to raise holly hell while the U.S. tries to conduct its air campaign.
When all is said and done we probably delay the Iranian nuke program a few years and the Iranians go full tilt towards developing nuclear weapons. The best chance the U.S. had at permanently removing the Iranians as a nuclear threat was during the ‘09 protests in Iran, unfortunately Obama effectively torpedoed that option.
Tom Cotton: Bombing Iran would take ‘several days’
Riiiight. And the Civil War was going to last three weeks. And the Iraq War was going to be a “cakewalk.” And the Vietnam War was going to be a short period of payback for the Gulf of Tonkin outrage.
Goodness I miss Reagan. He didn’t invade any countries, but he still won the Cold War. He did it through containment. What a leftist peacenik! Bush knew so much better how to do foreign policy - invade! Launch pre-emptive war!
Cotton is clearly a Bushite, not a Reaganite.
If it’s that simple, he and his other idiot politicians should go an do it.
I think it’s at that point we start to find out what happened to all of those man pads we lost in Libya.