I see... So Iran explodes in a spontaneous civil war that's so big the current regime won't be able to contain it, then we send in the USAF to provide the poorly armed rebels with all the air support they need to steamroll over the pro-government forces, and all live happily ever after. Great. How's Tuesday sound?
Yeah... Not buying it. When the "Arab spring" poked it's head out in Iran, they cut the head off, screamed "Allahu Akbar!", and then shat down it's throat. The idea that an uprising, similar to Libya, could happen in Iran doesn't seem plausible.
Also, while I may not have your insight into the current strains of thought in US foreign policy, I know there is a rift regarding how to deal with Iran. One side believes we can accomplish the mission through air-power alone (and of course a handful of clandestine troops that won't officially be there) while the other side believes we need to have a full on invasion to accomplish the mission because of; a. how deep underground the facilities are, and b. how secretive the entire program has been.
We supposedly invaded Iraq because we were determined to prevent them from building nukes or other weapons of mass destruction. Even though it turned out Saddam wasn't building nukes, or anything else, we are now 100% certain that Iraq is not pursuing any type of weapons of mass destruction. That kind of certainty appears to be tipping the scales of atomic paranoia toward those arguing for a full blown invasion against Iran:
UK and U.S. 'draw up joint plan to attack Iran': Evidence of nuclear programme raises tension in Middle East
That doesn't look like the plans for a Libyan style "war" my friend... It looks like the exact same type of "war" we started, and are still fighting more than a decade later, in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now unless you have some plausible, credible evidence that Iran will erupt in a civil war (whereby the rebel movement will only require US air support in order to overthrow the government), let's discuss the negative impacts, and subsequent ripple effects, that the above "joint plan to attack Iran" is likely to create so that you may begin to understand how I arrived at my dire conclusion.
