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Are you so unaware of who the president is that you need to ask me about military doctrine?

Being pretty aware of who the President really is, I'd come down on the side of him removing Iran's leadership and its capability to wage war with extreme prejudice if a carrier took a hit.

Him doing anything OTHER than that would not only result in very-public mass resignations of high-level military leadership, but would also drive his public opinion negatives into the stratosphere ... making impeachment (on grounds of failure to act as CinC and gross incompetence/negligence) a real possibility. At the very least he'd get tossed out of office in a landslide in 2012, taking most of the rest of the Congressional Dem caucuses with him.

The guy is, at heart, a Chicago pol. And he WANTS that second term. He'd go "Chicago Way" on Ahmahandjob's a** so fast it'd make people's heads spin.

“The guy is, at heart, a Chicago pol. And he WANTS that second term. He’d go “Chicago Way” on Ahmahandjob’s a** so fast it’d make people’s heads spin.”

Can’t argue with that.

But it still may not preclude an attempt to sink a carrier. I’m not sure the Iranians have done the political calculus.