A Military Strike On Iran's Nuclear Facilities Will Be Difficult

At The Pentagon And In Israel, Plans Show The Difficulties Of An Iran Strike -- Walter Pincus, Washington Post

If you are not prepared to go to war, you cannot threaten that “nothing is off the table” as you search for diplomatic solutions.

Thus there are completed plans, updated daily, at Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv and at the Pentagon for carrying out attacks on Iranian facilities in a last-ditch effort to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Israel has a plan to go it alone. So does the United States. And there may even be a plan for the two countries to collaborate. On Dec. 20, the Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Martin Dempsey, told CNN: “We are examining a range of options” and “I am satisfied that the options that we are developing are evolving to a point that they would be executable if necessary.”

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My Comment: No one said that a military strike was going to be easy.

But while the planning and execution of such a military strike may be very hard and difficult .... it pales with what is really difficult and that is the political decision to order it .... and to then live with it's consequences. The generals may have trouble sleeping at night .... but with decisions like this, I am sure that President Obama is not only having trouble sleeping at night .... but he is also having nightmares.