World War 3?

And dint forget the looming conflict with Israel and Iran coming soon to a TV near you. This wasn’t touched yet, but its pretty inevitable that something is afoot.

@Imperious:

And dint forget the looming conflict with Israel and Iran coming soon to a TV near you. This wasn’t touched yet, but its pretty inevitable that something is afoot.

Sure it won;t just be an air strike on Iranian nuclear facilities much like Israel did in Iraq in 84?  Would be in keeping with 30+ years of the US letting Israel do our dirty work in the middle east…

Don’t know if an airstrike will do it.  Didn’t Iran build the facility underground?

Rune Blade

A nuclear war between Israel and Iran is as likely as a nuclear war between the USA and the USSR or one between India and Pakistan.
Gov’t people know what they do and what they say, and where the difference between the two is.

A question to some (if you don’t understand, then you are not one of them and it is not polite to answer questions that others  are asked directly):

Why is what Ahmadinejad said not a hyperbole … ?

Sure it won;t just be an air strike on Iranian nuclear facilities much like Israel did in Iraq in 84?

I assume you’re referring to Osirak in 1981?  In any event, a similar strike is unlikely to be repeated.  Only at a stretch would Israel have the capability of launching such a strike, as is widely acknowledged in the security field.  Any strike would inevitably bring recriminations of collusion with the US, as they are the only ones which could supply such a mission to ensure a reasonable chance of success.  And, like IL said, the Iranians have learned from the Iraqi mistake, and moved some of their facilities underground.  Plus, intelligence is not that good, so even the US does not know how many and what kind of facilities Iran has.  A pre-emptive strike would only teach the Iranians more about what Israel and the US know.

Careful, now.  The US military admits that it cannot know or take out all potential reactors in North Korea, let alone a country the size of and as isolated as Iran.  Plus, only high-energy reactors are detectable.  If it’s far enough underground or not producing a lot of energy (which the enrichment process generally does not), then satellite surveillance will be unlikely to be effective.  Also, could you imagine the consequences of any unilateral action by the U.S.?  That’s why the US is trying to go through the Security Council on this one, and why it’s been quiet about Russia’s plan to process nuclear material on Russian soil as opposed to Iranian.

Clausewitz would be quite astonished.