Europeans leaders say that Iran should go before the UN Security Council. What will they do, send in Hans Blix to wander around for a few months?

Hans Brix? I hate dat guy. Frow him in da sharktank!

(it's a Team America reference)

Send in the French!!

"I speet in your geeneralle direktion..."

Just for the record . . .

Iranian nuclear weapons scare the be-jeebers out of me. Previous liberal snark set aside IF we (US? Israel?) can successfully do a special forces or surgical JDAM strike that actually eliminates capability, I won't whine on any moral or ethical basis.

But, try and take out Iranian nukes (and miss!) and we are worse off than not trying. Don't pull the trigger unless we are sure we will eliminate the target.

If we pull the trigger, and miss, the consequences will be very bad.

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How we (the US) FUBAR-ed global geopolitics over the last several years and thereby undermined our ability to be effective in stopping Iranian nuclear weapons is too big a topic for this forum.

John Keegan on this subject.

But, try and take out Iranian nukes (and miss!) and we are worse off than not trying. Don't pull the trigger unless we are sure we will eliminate the target.

By your rules then it won't happen. I can't tell my boss that a software deployment next month is going to go 100% to plan, and I know where all of the systems are and they can be reasonably expected not to shoot back when I do a tactical strike on the old version. Something always goes wrong - Murphy was a grunt.

I say we nuke the country from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

I say we nuke the country from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Even in jest, that's a dangerous statement. However, nuking their education system with the information bomb might be much more effective. Teach them something other than hate and I'm sure they'd come around.

Teach them something other than hate and I'm sure they'd come around.

Surround them and bombard the enemy with copies of 'Ms.' and 'Playboy'? Hey I'm for that. I'd even support a tax increase to pay for translating each month's edition into Farsi.

Of course that takes time and assumes the other guys is just going to let you do that. We might not have either luxury. For damn sure any theocrat who knows his business is not just going to let you subvert their education system.