That would have been my prefered option, now it’s
that much harder.
I have no doubt that Israel will do what needs be done,
only the cost will be that much higher.
Yep . With Obama as Commander-in-Chief, it may not be possible at all unless the U.S. Air Force pulls a "Wrong Way Corrigan" and "mistakes" the entire Iranian target set for a bombing range in Arizona.
I have no doubt that Israel will do what needs be done, only the cost will be that much higher.
I'm concerned whether it is even logistically possible for the IDF to accomplish.
It is a very extensive, dispersed and hardened target set.
A sustained air campaign by the U.S. Air Force along the line of "Shock and Awe" (1,700 sorties) could certainly do the job and U.S. airborne forces may have had to secure deeply dug site such as the mountain tunnel sites but the IDF would have to resort to a single air strike. Short of letting the nuclear weapons genie out of the bottle and onto the battlefield for the first time since 1945, the logistics of the operation may simply be more than the IDF can handle.
George W, Bush may have meant well but he was just not up to the job. He won on the battlefield against the Iraqi Army but failed to take the insurgency seriously, allowed to Democrats and the liberal news media to demoralize the Home Front thereby potentially losing the Iraq War when Obama bugs out and he has left a potentially disastrous Iranian problem unresolved.