Monday, February 20, 2012
And just how would Israel attack Iran
Elisabeth Bumiller, reliable stenographer for the NY Times, has put together various scenarios of Israel's attack on Iran's nuke facilities. Aside from the fact that the distance is twice that of the attack on Iraq many moons ago, most of the air time would be over unfriendly airspace.
Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its pilots would have to fly more than 1,000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran’s air defenses, attack multiple underground sites simultaneously — and use at least 100 planes.The best part about Ms Bumiller's article is the casual way she suggests that the US will have to finish the mess that Israel starts.
That is the assessment of American defense officials and military analysts close to the Pentagon, who say that an Israeli attack meant to set back Iran’s nuclear program would be a huge and highly complex operation. They describe it as far different from Israel’s “surgical” strikes on a nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007 and Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981.
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