Netanyahu plays the Holocaust card...

[Harmonic]

With all but one of the Republican hopefuls calling for military strikes against Iran then things could get messy if Obama loses the election. The Israelis have been in and bombed Iran before but I don't think they'd find it so easy this time. The Iranians have been spending large sums with the Russians buy some pretty serious air defence kit. Unless they're very lucky a single surgical strike is going to be a one-way ticket at best and if the US really do want to get involved then they would need to systematically destroy Iran's new air defence network before they can go in and bomb the nuke factories.
A one-off easy-in, easy-out against 1960s era air defence sortie is easy to justify and will be over before the UN can get its knickers in a twist, a full on bombing campaign over several days is a whole different matter. I seriously doubt any of the gulf states will be up for the US launching such a campaign from their soil and so that would mean having to use carrier based aircraft.
It would be very easy for the Iranians to end up giving the US a bit of a hiding. Even if they lose their nuclear program, knocking down a few US jets and setting back US relations in the Gulf will be worth it.

[Doggy Styles]

Quite happy for Israel/US to take that question off the table to be honest

Israel/USA haven't threatened to wipe a whole nation and its people off the face of the earth.

Look, you've demonstrated your ignorance, and shown you're the last person anyone would want alongside them in any kind of difficulty. I'd say mission accomplished, wouldn't you?

[The Spartan]

It's oh so easy for the russians to sell their hardware when they know it'll never be pointed in their direction it's ridiculous

[Paddy]

. The Israelis have been in and bombed Iran before but I don't think they'd find it so easy this time.

When was that?

[Doggy Styles]

When was that?

I think he means Iraq.

But I can't remember. Was it Iraq or Iran?

[Churchill]

I think he means Iraq.

But I can't remember. Was it Iraq or Iran?

That'll be Syria, eh?

[xoggoth]

Yep, they have bombed Iraq. AND Syria.

[shaunbhoy]

Quite happy for Israel/US to take that question off the table to be honest

Of course you are. You don't seem to mind who you are hiding behind whilst talking big.
But you never even had the cojones to join the REME. FFS, it doesn't get much safer.
Did your dad ever ask you if you might feel drawn towards being a milkman?

[Churchill]

Of course you are. You don't seem to mind who you are hiding behind whilst talking big.
But you never even had the cojones to join the REME. FFS, it doesn't get much safer.
Did your dad ever ask you if you might feel drawn towards being a milkman?

Hey Sergeant, give it a bleeding rest!

Btw, did you notice that Zoidy couldn't spell Sergeant in his earlier posts? Thick as pigsh!t.

[shaunbhoy]

Hey Sergeant, give it a bleeding rest!

Btw, did you notice that Zoidy couldn't spell Sergeant in his earlier posts? Thick as pigsh!t.

Let's be honest, there is not much he is capable of doing without buggering it up in some way.
I hope he takes that position in Iraq teaching the locals how to crochet doyleys.

Might be the making of him.