Should the US military annihilate Iran's military and thereby eliminate the threat of them using a nuclear weapon?

I'm not talking about an invasion, rebuilding, or any use of ground troops. I am talking about using a smart, swift and guided massive air attack to wipe out their military and nuclear facilities. Asked by dirtyD 51 months ago Similar questions: military annihilate Iran's eliminate threat nuclear weapon Politics & Law > War.

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No. The US military is not God. It should not be in the business of trying to order the universe.

Until the Iranians elect the US SecDef as president, I believe we have an obligation to respect Iran's right to be as narrow-minded and short sighted as they choose to be. Once a basically good-hearted country like the US starts thinking they have some sort of divine mission to help mankind discover the good life, American style, there's no telling where this can end. If we managed to convince ourselves it would be "in Iran's best interests" for us to make some kind of surgical strike and just magically disappear all the weapons (without civilian casualties of course, right.....does that ever work?), the next thing you know we'll have persuaded ourselves that we really ought to go after Russia, because they're still Not Playing Nice with Georgia.

Then of course there are any number of opportunities in the Middle East and Africa, in Asia and Latin America, where we should probably step in and surgically sort out dictatorships, repression, corruption and human rights violations on a gargantuan scale. Once we take care of all these countries who just don't get it like we do, what's next? Well, we should really take a look at Turkey.

The Kurds are unhappy, they still allow cigarettes in all their restaurants and hotels, and they repressively do not allow conservative Muslim women to wear veils to school. In many if not all European countries, they actually teach evolution as THE best-to-date scientific explanation of how we all came to be, without mentioning creationism or intelligent design or any other pseudo-scientific alternatives. I imagine that the radical Christian right, who have a disproportionately influential voice in setting American policy, would find that sufficiently offensive to suggest that we surgically level all their schools......at night, of course, to keep collateral damage to a minimum.

Where does this sort of thinking end? Don't know, but it's probably somewhere close to the borders of Israel..

I doubt if that would be an effective long term sulution to the problem. The days when the only method of delivering a nuclear weapon was possessing a sophisiticated and expensive deliverty vehicle, such as a cruise missile, bomber or submarine, are over. A suitcase bomb or a nuclear device in a backpack could level a small city.

Once Iran has the technology to build such a device, the manufacture of numerous devices would be easy, and the recruitment of fanatics to deliver them by hand or car would be just as easy.

No, it is uncalled for and ineffective First of all, there's no way to eliminate all their military efficiently. Second of all, we can't destroy their nuclear faciliies without risking massive nuclear release and radiation fallout. Thirdly, it doesn't solve the nuclear problem.

We still need to worry and Russia, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Sources: opinion .

Opinions If we could eliminate their military, and their military ONLY, possible. No civilian casualties, of course. But this is improbable.

Wiping out nuclear and military facilities wouldn't be a long term solution, although it might work short-term. I'm not competely up on the Iran threat, but at face value, we'd need more serious worries than is present from Iran. I do not think Iran will behave responsibly with nuclear weapons, but I'm not sure the US attacking on a maybe is a good enough idea.

We don't need to stretch our military more than it already is at present. I think we need major intel before something like this was planned out and executed. Sources: my personal opinion .

1 I don't think it would work. They are ready for that with many facilities underground. It has never worked in the past - not even on the Pacific islands we attacked in WWII.

The objective of military power is to change behavior. If you have to use it, you have lost in a way.

I don't think it would work. They are ready for that with many facilities underground. It has never worked in the past - not even on the Pacific islands we attacked in WWII.

The objective of military power is to change behavior. If you have to use it, you have lost in a way.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.