This is not a breath but a tempest of common sense. Making the perfect the enemy of the good is the last refuge of people who hate themselves for being wrong.
Fordow probably isn’t worth restoring. That said, if Iran relocated the 60% enriched uranium before the strike the strike demonstrates to Iran that its straddling strategy (nuclear deterrence without a nuclear deterrent) is a failure. This will impel them to covertly pursue realization of a nuclear weapon. Israel pulled this off and absent occupation Iran can as well. Not the ideal outcome IMHO.
Sure, there are all sorts of ways to skirt around detection. But that has zero to do with the silly stuff being said about Midnight Hammer's effect on Fordow.
No argument there - ALL speculation about the impact on Fordow at this point is speculative. That said your argument is quite plausible and probably correct. Hopefully this will not be a case of winning the battle but losing the war as has been the case in our other Middle Eastern adventures (beginning with the 1950’s coup in Iran).
I keep picturing the Iranians in their rebuilding having to deal with the Los Angeles permitting authorities. That would give them at least one new centrifuge per year.
This is not a breath but a tempest of common sense. Making the perfect the enemy of the good is the last refuge of people who hate themselves for being wrong.
Oh, bullshit.
The reason not to talk: sources. You don't throw your informants to the wolves, you don't tell them how to defeat your surveillance mechanisms.
I was referring to Herskovitz. His conclusions are inane.
Fordow probably isn’t worth restoring. That said, if Iran relocated the 60% enriched uranium before the strike the strike demonstrates to Iran that its straddling strategy (nuclear deterrence without a nuclear deterrent) is a failure. This will impel them to covertly pursue realization of a nuclear weapon. Israel pulled this off and absent occupation Iran can as well. Not the ideal outcome IMHO.
Sure, there are all sorts of ways to skirt around detection. But that has zero to do with the silly stuff being said about Midnight Hammer's effect on Fordow.
No argument there - ALL speculation about the impact on Fordow at this point is speculative. That said your argument is quite plausible and probably correct. Hopefully this will not be a case of winning the battle but losing the war as has been the case in our other Middle Eastern adventures (beginning with the 1950’s coup in Iran).
I stay away from that stuff.
I'm just commenting on the propagandistic distortions currently saturating X from the usual suspects.
Yes indeed. And also this gives a morale boost to any rebellious groups that exist in Iran.
There's an article by an Australian woman, Kylie Moore Gilbert, who was detained in Iran. The place is run by paranoid maniacs.
I keep picturing the Iranians in their rebuilding having to deal with the Los Angeles permitting authorities. That would give them at least one new centrifuge per year.