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America and Iran
By Daniel G. Jennings
Liberals are so used to dreaming of American defeat that they have already declared America’s defeat in a war that hasn’t happened yet: the conflict with Iran.
If one listens to the leftist talking heads on the news shows one would believe that the US military is completely powerless and helpless to do anything to stop Iran’s scheme to build nuclear weapons. The liberal argument is that the US military is overstretched and tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan so it can’t do anything about Iran.
There is a little truth to this argument: US probably couldn’t mount a full scale invasion and occupation of Iran at this time. Fortunately, we don’t have to invade Iran to shut down the Iranian nuclear weapons program. All we have to do is destroy the nuclear facilities and wrecking the Ayatollahs’ nuclear play toys would still be an easy task for our forces, especially our Air Force.
The easiest way for Uncle Sam to shut down the Iranian nuclear weapons program would be through plain old fashioned bombing. The strategic bombers of our Air Force could carry out saturation bombing of areas where suspected reactors are located this would do some damage and certainly take out the support structures needed for nuclear weapons production, power plants, power lines, water supplies, roads, railroads, etc.
If the nuclear facilities are buried or fortified our Air Force can still destroy them without resorting to nuclear weapons. The most likely method would be to simply drop a giant conventional bomb that creates a shockwave similar to an Earth quake. The British Royal Air Force used one of these, “The Grand Slam” bomb, to destroy the Nazi V-3 super gun in France in 1944 and to destroy other underground facilities during World War II. Our Air Force recently developed and tested an updated version of “Grand Slam” called the Mother of All Bombs the purpose for this weapon is obvious: to destroy underground facilities.
Beyond bombs there are missiles, some of which can be fired right into the tunnels leading to underground facilities. Missiles can be fired by planes, submarines, ships or ground forces in Iraq.
After missiles there are drones and robots, a drone aircraft loaded with explosives or napalm could be programmed to fly right into the tunnels at the Iranians’ underground facility. I imagine that would put more than a few wrenches in the works. Robots could also attack, a plane could drop a robot ground vehicle say a tank that could drive right into the nuclear facility and blow up.
Iran’s Air Force might be able to intercept a few of these attacks but our planes could easily shoot it down. The Iranian Air Force’s planes are thirty years old, many of them lack spare parts and Iranian officers and pilots haven’t had advanced training since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. They’re thirty years beyond the times and would be target practice for our pilots. That is if Iranian pilots would actually die for the Ayatollahs like the Iraqi Air Force in the Second Gulf War they might refuse to take off and get killed.
After air attacks there is sabotage and commando raids. If US and British forces could locate the nuclear facilities teams of commandos could be inserted to blow up or sabotage nuclear facilities. Corrupt Iranians might be paid to plant bombs in nuclear facilities or guide our forces to them. Iranians who dislike the current regime might also sabotage the nuclear program to give the ayatollahs a black eye.
Obviously, I’m no military expert and I can see how our military can easily attack and destroy Iran’s nuclear program. If I can see it so can the Iranian government which knows there is little or nothing it can do to stop us from destroying its nuclear program. My guess is the Iranians will make a face saving deal through Europe to quietly dismantle the program, thus avoiding a confrontation that will bring them down.
The liberals in the newsroom can’t see how America will win its conflict with Iran because they hate the idea of America winning. Of course, we’ve heard this broken record from the armchair generals in the media elite before. Remember the Gulf War tens of thousands of American soldiers were supposed to fall before Saddam Hussein’s crack army of millions of men. Saddam’s poorly trained army of conscripts armed with thirty year old Russian weapons ran away or surrender. Yugoslavia, the mighty Serbs who had defeated the Nazis would never bow to American might they surrendered after a couple of weeks of American bombing. Or Afghanistan, the Afghans had defeated the Russians and British so America could never conquer them, our forces defeated the Taliban in a few weeks. The Iraq War thousands of Americans dead in the bloody battle for Baghdad, Baghdad fell without a shot as Saddam and the rest of his leadership ran away.
Given this track record is it any wonder that I doubt the hysterical warnings of the chicken littles in the news rooms. My guess is that the predictors of American defeat will be sadly disappointed when Iran quietly shuts down its nuclear program and makes peace with the United States. Unfortunately, instead of praising American military might for defusing a crisis and ending a potential threat the media elitists will then go out and seek a crisis involving another invincible enemy that America can’t defeat. Then be disappointed again when America easily defeats that enemy too.