[Vendome]

Echoing remarks he made last week, Panetta pointed to a U.S. analysis that a strike on Iran would set back its nuclear program by one or two years at most.

 

Yeah?  Then I'm all for coming back every year or two to make the point "you will not have a nuclear arsenal or capability"

[SJackson]

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Yes, irrespective of how one reads the headline. I suspect an Israeli counterstrike to an Iranian wmd attack would have far greater economic impact than a preemptive strike on Iran. Wonder if Leon has given any thought to the economic no strike scenario. Simply let Iran go nuclear and dominate the oil producers of the region. Probably not, he's too busy worrying about the threat from India

[Eleutheria5]

Better yet, set back their capability for a year or two at most, and in that interim, work like hell to undermine their regime. Give covert aid to the students, to the Kurds, and cultivate a few other dissident groups to tear down the Mullahs from within. Don’t decry your own fifth columnists, emulate them.