Posted by
AlongTheWatchtower on Monday, July 17, 2006 3:44:46 PM
What to do about Iran?
They tell us they have dispersed their nuclear plants, some amidst cities, others underground, etc. Here's what President Terry would do:
1) Gather all the Special Operations Forces folks that can possibly be spared, and from all trustworthy allies; secrecy is critical. Give them all a week with their families in Cuernavaca and Acapulco, have the State Dept rent the entire cities. The single guys can go to Hedonism.
2) Train them hard for two weeks/two months for their missions:
Assaulting all known Iranian nuclear facilities, capture/interrogation of the scientists therin;
A Quick Reaction Force to assault and destroy the places revealed by the first wave.
Exfil of troops and critical scientific personel and documents/evidence.
SOF and Air-delivered destruction of all known and revealed nuclear assets.
The infil and especially exfil will be challenging, but that's what we pay them for. All or most scientific personel can be interrogated in Iraq and Afghanistan and some Gulf States, and returned on chartered French and Russian commercial jets to Tehran about the time Kofin Anan's blood pressure hits max. Or not.
Protect the forces with various political deceptions before, and AC-130 Spectres, A-10s, and every other air asset we own during, plus Rangers and all other elites that know what they're doing, and the usual air-defense suppression, of course. Can anyone imagine a truly effective response from the Iranian army being mounted in the small time allotted?
This would be Desert One writ huge, but we're ready for it today, and it would pay enormous practical dividends, setting back their program several years at least, while turning the US-friendly population more completely against their discredited mullahcracy, and not against us.
Bush, Blair, Harper, and Howard collectively weather the storm of international BS (Israeli-style) and sells the attack to the planet as our unavoidable "Nuclear Normandy". The humilation of the enormous raid with obviously deliberately low civilian casualties would likely doom the mad mullahs alone.
Whaddya think?
Mattunes