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Entry: Pulling the Trigger on Iran Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/pulling_the_trigger_on_iran#981 Post contents: I wouldn't put the Iranians out of the picture just because the US decided to blow its wad with aircraft and missles. Since they've acquired Russian supersonic Sunburn missles (somewhere around Mach 2.2 or 2.5) in quantity, something that navy dreamers have never dealt with in the "real world", and since the US Navy has only three seconds at most to acquire and possibly destroy these multi-ton speed demons, it would be a bitter tonic indeed to see multiple cruisers and an aircraft carrier go down to Davy Jones locker. Now that would be shock and awe... and well deserved. Would that bring about the even greater evil of launching tactical nukes because the Americans were getting a royal reaming of their own creation? And no insurance company or tanker skipper would be insane enough to navigate the Straits of Hormuz for fear of being blown out of the water. And the Russians and Chinese, not to mention Japan etc., are not going to let the US bring them all down the drain just so some lunatic in the "Madrass of Madness" aka 1600 Pennsylvania can primp and stutter about the GWOT. When people are starving and paying six bucks a gallon they'll be pissed and all the folderol vomiting forth from politicians pie holes won't mean a damn thing. Sent at: 2008 07 24