[nosofar]

It would only be disasterous if we decided to use less than massive power, got politically hamstrung and decided like idiots to care enough to stick around and help with the "rebuilding".

Which is probably exactly what we'd do.

[Lysandru]

Well this is a facile bit of fluff.

Who says a ground war has to be march on Tehran followed by occupying the whole freaking country? If we established a beach head at the Straits of Hormuz, we could dig in "like Alabama ticks" and slaughter the jihadist idiots charging into our prepared defenses.

And this guy overestimates Iran's naval power--I figure they could last a week against the USN and USAF.

That having been said, the Iranians could make a lot of trouble for us in Iraq. And I personally want to keep the good will of the Iranian people.

The other big problem is that the International Left has poisoned the waters in regard to dealing with the Axis of Evil with the use of force.