[Jim Noble]

..... to really win this war I believe your number of 25 divisions is what is really needed (with the added airlift of C-17s & C-5s .... and AC-130s)

I think to win, using the conventional definition, means a heavy occupation of Arabia and Pakistan for 30-50 years, coupled with the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Free Persia would, IMO, be a valuable and necessary ally, along with India.

My 25 divisions would just have been a down payment.

[Yasotay]

Again you are correct. Since the Iranian crisis of the late 1970s, we have let the threat grow for an entire generation. On 9-11, the threat revealed itself fully to the American public. I have always thought we had the same two choices that Islam gives us: convert them or kill them.

Currently I see neither happening. I do believe that we are currently trying to overthrow the current Iranian government. If we succeed, then we may have dodged a big bullet. If we don't, then we are in deep trouble.