The thing that annoys me the most about the Right is that there is never original or independent thought taking place. It is most apparent when talking points are repeated which have blatant or obvious flaws.
The problem with this talking point is the same as the problem with most Right Wing talking points. It does a great job of creating drama and casting doubt, but it offers no feasible or workable solution.
Suppose your redundant talking point is correct for a moment. OK... now what? What is your Israeli heroe's alternative plan? Does John Boehner have an alternative plan? Do John Boehner's cooperate masters have a plan?
The only alternative plan that has been presented by the Right was presented by McCain over 7 years ago. "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
If Bibi had the balls to discuss the alternative possible plans, lets evaluate what they might be.
If we withdraw from the current path towards negotiation,
we will lose the Russians and Chinese for sanctions. It is a miracle that we have not lost Russia already due to the tensions over Ukraine.
Sanctions have also never worked on Iran.
These 2 facts combined make continued sanctions become completely worthless and unproductive.
Furthermore, the Iranians are insulted by the sanctions and are even less likely to cooperate.
There are 2 remaining options. Targeted attacks or a full out mass invasion.
Targeted attacks have been downplayed as a viable option by all the experts for years. This is why Bush did not do it. They are not expected to work and would cause Iran to triple it's efforts and at the same time justify it's reason for wanting nuclear weapons.
In addition to it not working in the long term, Iran has a sophisticated air defense and air force and the bombs needed must be dropped from aircraft, not merely guided missiles. Therefore, even for a small strike, we would have to first dominate Iran's air defense. That in itself could be a 30 to 60 day war.
The only thing left is a full out mass invasion to have boots on the ground controlling the actual nuclear sites.
We would win this war without a doubt. The cost would be great. We'd lose over 20,000 troops. We'd lose some ships and many aircraft.
Iran would devastate the oil fields in Saudi Arabia and cripple the oil shipping ability for the entire Middle East.
Iran would attack Israel and the entire Middle East would erupt in total chaos.
None of that even matters though, because the American people are not about to sign off on a full Invasion of Iran.
Just not gonna happen.
And if it is simply not gonna happen regardless of who is running the Country... this means what?
It means that all of this crap is political theater and that you had better hope that our President gets the best deal that he possibly can... because that is all we got.
