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If I were the president, this is what I would do, congressional approval, UN approval, world approval or not. After getting the necessary assets in place, I would give Iran and Syria 48 hours to do the following: 1) turn over all of their governing officials to US troops at a designated location and 2) immediate cessation of all assistance to the insurgents. At the same time, I would demand that the Iraqi government hand over al-Sadr to US troops and if any other government officials protested, they be handed over as well. Failure to abide by these conditions would result in a nuclear bomb being dropped on Damascus and Tehran. To prove that the US means what it says a conventional (non nuclear) cruise missile strike would be launched to land somewhere outside these 2 cities. Additionally a cruise missile strike would be launched on Ramadi, the capital of the Anbar province, aka "Sunni land", to make sure the Sunnis and Baathists get the message that it is time for the killing to stop.

While this would cause consider outrage from all corners of the world, this would result in far fewer deaths than what we are likely to face if we let Iran develop the capability to have nuclear weapons. Radical Islamism must be defeated just as communism and fascism were. To not do so at this juncture would be irresponsible. The world may condemn us, but through the long lens of history will see that it had to be done.