>>>>>>My greatest political worry today is that Israel will attack Iran and even with public denouncements and denials by both countries, muslim believers world-wide will of course believe otherwise.
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>>>>>Everything I have read says Iran's nuclear facilities are so deep underground it would be no easy task taking them out. You aren't going to get them by dropping a few bombs.
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>>>>I don't believe I limited my comment to "bombs." However, i agree with you.
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>>>Given the options, I would really vote for something a lot more focused on "soft" targets.
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>>>Remember when Iraq was going to build a very very big cannon? Gerard Bull proved to be a soft target. No gun.
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>>How romantic. So you prefer sending bunch of assasins on a killing spree in Iran? Something like Ocean 11, smooth action, everything just
>>clicks ... Necks broken, throats slit...
>>There is smal problem there. Iran nuclear program is not small venture lead by one western scientist going rogue, it is actually
>>genuine result of their own level of science/resarch. It would hv to be more likely 'Ocean 3000' or something, attacking their coledges, students, scientific institutions etc. Now after that Dubai 15 flick, do you think everything will just click ?
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>>Or maybe will be like in that other movie ('Naked Guns') where Steve Martin open the fire from raifal gun into a crowd, and only bad guys are falling dead. Or some sick variation of it; Like next staged demonstrations in Iran, shooters opens raifal gun into a middle of a crowd, and
>>only school chilldren are being shot. As it soon turns out (leaked video on CNN) shooters are all infact undercover revolutionary guards viciosely mixed into the crowd. Then goes civil unrest, overthrowing of regime from outside...
>>But wait a minute, it might not work. Isn't that (outside intervention) what brought up Islamic state to Iran at the first place ??
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>>On a serious note, How about some diplomacy and genuine peace offers, instead of ugly old undercover wars which never brough any good
>>to anybody. How about US/Israel start actually talking with Iran for a change. I mean really talk. If the efforts/talks are sincere and genuine
>>they might just work.
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>Discussions with Iran have been occurring (regardless of the media's lack of coverage) with Iran for years - including under the Bush administration. The current president is working on that same goal. It is unfair to imply that this country doesn't go that route when in fact that is always the first measure taken and in the case of Iran, it has been an effort for years.
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>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/us-and-iran-holding-secret-talks-on-nuclear-programme-808647.html
>http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/u_s_iranian_negotiations_beyond_rhetoric
>http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/01/29/americas_secret_back_channel_diplomacy_with_iran
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901597.html

Perhaps multiple rounds of unsucessfull negotiations with stick always being much bigger then the carrot, might very well serve purpose of substantiating claims like; 'Iran never missed opportunity to miss the opportunity...'

Having negotioations and actually talking towards the solution are not necessarily the same ventures.