Like, for example, hijacking airliners and aiming them at the pentagon and White House, suicide bombing our ships, blowing up airplanes, blowing up our embassies? You’re right. By all means, lets not provoke them into doing their damndest to kill one of ours!

1. Lack of Farsi speaking assasin problem? Ahem….how about MEK - while we disarmed, I hope we collected some cell phone numbers or e-mail addies. Who do you think blew up the Quds bus last week? Plus we have access to Afghanistan…they speak something close to Farsi there.

2. Assasinate a few scientists and no matter how much security you put on them, they’ll be under pressure. The other guy was right - Israel does this successfully. They should be the model.

3. Multiple targets…hit the gas infrastructure first, then the scientists and finally the mullahs. You’re looking to throw some sand in their gears not to blow up their entire country. Note to CIA idiots…use third party weapons…hey about using Austrian sniper rifles…that would be ironic,no?

Naturally such bombs should be delivered at a time when there is a high expectancy of maximum occupancy by Iran’s intellectual capability. Such a bomb would in no way be viewed an assassination since it targets no one person, but rather a projection of US military power to eliminate a veiled threat from an enemy. Two or three such bombs in a six week interval, and you’re talking about destroying Iran’s capacity to engage in bomb development materially, in manpower, as well as in the morale of the remaining scientists and technicians initially engaged in that activity.

That is EXACTLY the point. How many Bombs have we needed to?

The Japanese were as fanatical in their day as the jihadists are today, and they were even more brutal. They had beheading of captured Americans down to an art, and because of their brutality towards captured Marines on the battlefield the war in the Pacific was no-holds-barred.

How did we beat the fanatical Japanese, who were using suicide bombers before it was cool? We killed enough of them to make the rest realize that they couldn’t win.

We haven’t killed enough of the jihadists yet. Unfortunately, we need to kill more. Bush was right to move into Iraq, to try to “drain the swamp”, but Iran is really the alligator nest over there, the pus-filled boil on the Earth’s posterior, and until it’s lanced and drained Iran will be a PITA that, like an infection, threatens us all.

But big names are unlikely to initiate a form of warfare in which they are the first rather than the last targets.

As for your larger points, Lambchop is an ass (duh). Iran has been at war with the US pretty much since 1979. And as nice as the thought of Ahmendidjad getting a 50 Cal lobotomy, he is the manifestation of the larger disease.