No Good Military Option For Iran

[kraf001]

I don't think any military can defeat our female ninja army anyways.... so bring it on!

[travis911]

We can drop them right into Iran lol

[existentialfish]

As far as Military options are concerned the most direct would be the best. pick a nuclear development site that is as far away from a civian center as possible. Fire a tomahawk on it with a 445 kiloton warhead. The site disapears, with minimal civilian casualties. Then demand unconditional surrender of Iran's nuclear materials to the UN. If they seemed to have joined the nuclear club, then I guess they can receive attention as well as give.
Everybody would be to **** scared to do anything about a weapon like that being used in anger at an obviously military target. It would send a hell of a message, and it would probably kill less people than a conventional air campaign and raids on the ground to physically go in and pull the research apart.

Wow a cogent argument for a nuclear war. I just scared myself.

[Atlantic Friend]

Somehow I dont think 'cogent' best describes that argument.

[SoSo]

It's not an ideal solution, but you can't say an idea isn't cogent just because you happen to disagree with it. We may have reached a point where we have to start giving some consideration to even the more questionable options.

[dignity]

I can understand that people in countries hostile to American and Israeli interests would be glad to see one of our enemies aquire nukes, to deter what they see as our military adventurism in the region. Iran is our adversary, not theirs, so they don't see any downside to its development of these weapons.
But I think nuclear proliferation is something we should all want to prevent if we can, since it's unlikely to end with Iran. I believe a nuclear-armed Iran will frighten many countries in the region, and cause them to want to arm themselves with such weapons. Imagine a Middle East, with several countries, some of them repressive and unstable, armed with nukes and delivery systems, with long-held animosities that could easily trigger their use.

i agree with nuclear proliferation is not good but you forget the reason we have Iran wanting to have nuclear capability because Israel has nuclear weapons

since the west which is allied with and will not press Israel to do anything about its weapons even though there's a US the worlds superpower of a 51st state guarantee of Israels security in that Israel will never be mortally attacked where the US will not respond so in that situation of great hypocrisy nuclear proliferation has already been set

i also think its unlikely any other countries will go nuclear since turkey is a NATO member it ill not and Saudi being a US Allie will not and the others do not have the resources or capability to attempt anything

so it will be Israel-Iran Mutually assured destruction until they negotiate out of it.

[Atlantic Friend]

It's not an ideal solution, but you can't say an idea isn't cogent just because you happen to disagree with it. We may have reached a point where we have to start giving some consideration to even the more questionable options.

To be a tad brutal, that does horribly sound like "we're short of good ideas, so let's pick up a real bad one instead".

The aforementioned cogent idea is to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike, call any collateral civilian deaths minimal, and follow by naked nuclear blackmail, on the basis that "everybody would be too **** scared to do anything about it".

But I agree with Existentialfish on one point: that sure would send "one Hell of a message" all right.

[timetraveller]

I don't think any military can defeat our female ninja army anyways.... so bring it on!

that is just as bad as that America wrestling tv show .. .. Plus i hate how they claim the Ninjitsu as a martial art when they know sfa of it's true origins .. It was films that took a folklore and turn it into entertainment

[existentialfish]

To be a tad brutal, that does horribly sound like "we're short of good ideas, so let's pick up a real bad one instead".

The aforementioned cogent idea is to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike, call any collateral civilian deaths minimal, and follow by naked nuclear blackmail, on the basis that "everybody would be too **** scared to do anything about it".

But I agree with Existentialfish on one point: that sure would send "one Hell of a message" all right.

Well when you put it that way.. I for one am am glad I am not in power.