ranger wrote:
"I don't believe Iran would hesitate to nuke Israel but they will get only one chance and the nation will, for all intents and purposes, cease to exist."
I disagree.
Even if Iran did attack Israel with nuclear weapons, and if Israel retaliated, at least some of Iran would survive.
But Israel could be essentially destroyed with relatively few nuclear hits.
I recall a comment that [I think] one of the ayatollahs made, about how Iran could lose a third to half of its people, but Iran would still "be there", while Israel would be gone. Like it or not, he's right.
We should have massively attacked Iran at the end of Bush 2's term, in collaboration with Israel (or supported an Israeli mission).
We almost certainly WILL have to go to war with that country eventually.
Remember what Churchill said, why one should fight early when one's chances are best?