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Former Army Green Beret, Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu, has a detailed FrontPage article on this. The background is that a) Iran funds Hezbollah, which wants to kill us, and b) Iran’s publicly stated policy is that they want to kill us:
The aberrant mullah leadership is responsible for funneling untold millions of dollars; mostly derived from oil sales revenues; into the hands of international terrorists. The infamous Hezbollah organization, based in Lebanon with representatives in Damascus and Teheran, relies heavily on Iranian funding along with assistance in kind from Syria. Hezbollah has attacked Israel through conventional and terrorist activity unrelentingly for years. It has proven intransigent and unapologetic for attacks against innocent civilians that have accounted for thousands of Israeli deaths.
In past actions Hezbollah has shown itself willing to use any and all weapons available. This is an additional worry for those who fear a nuclear Iran, because such a weapon in the hands of ruthless terrorists could wreak inconceivable losses upon Israel and America. Hezbollah leaders have no compunction about identifying America as an enemy equal to or greater than Israel. This is in consonance with the philosophy of the Iranian mullah leaders who speak of America as the Great Satan and Israel as the Lesser Satan. Chants of “Death to America”; alternate with calls for “Death to Israel”; during organized demonstrations in Teheran and Beirut.
Therefore there are detailed contingency plans in place to take out the Iranian nuclear capacity if Iran does not choose to do so in response to negotiations:
Contingency plans are one of the most useful tools available for civilian and military leaders. They are also one of the least understood components of the military staff process. It is an all-too-common perception that the very presence of a plan that calls for military action becomes in effect a self fulfilling prophecy. In other words, if a plan exists to attack a country, then proponent naturally gather to implement that plan. In reality nothing can be further from the truth.
...Every planner realizes that the work is hypothetical. There always will be many more unused plans than there are military operations. To turn a plan into an operation requires a rare confluence of contingencies that most military officers hope never occurs. So shelves in headquarters around the world are filled with plans that are unlikely ever to be implemented but whose very presence reassures leaders and operators alike. If the decision is ever made then the appropriate plan can be dusted off, updated, and activated. This is exactly what is taking place in the United States and Israel at the moment concerning Iran and its growing nuclear threat. All hope that diplomatic measures will succeed in achieving national objectives, but no rational leader is willing to place blind faith in them.
There’s a good reason we have a strong military. We need it.
