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*** Here's the plan. Israel can drop a relative handful of neutron
bombs (which it possesses) ***

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Sunday, December 17, 2006 3:00:56 PM

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Wow. (Article Below)

I was wonderin about the future fallout, radiation damage, to
civilians,
in the context of Iran... and which way the wind blows...


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6722

Time to Neutron Iran
by Shmuel Ben-Yehoshua
Nov 26, '06 / 5 Kislev 5767

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In the wake of the world having done nothing to stop North Korea from
getting
the atom bomb and next to nothing to stop Iran either, six other Muslim
nations
have now announced that they too are seeking to get the "big one"
themselves.
The six states are Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, the United Arab
Emirates
and Saudi Arabia.

This is a moment of truth. The North Korean nuclear test uncovers the
moral
bankruptcy of a world that had slogans about North Korea being part of
an "axis
of evil" (Iran being also a stated part of that so-called axis), but
which, in
fact, did nothing to stop the North Koreans from getting the bomb.

The world will do nothing. Just like they did nothing during the
Holocaust.

Israel is alone and must pull itself together and deal a crippling blow
to Iran
and its nuclear program, as a signal to the other six states to back
down. This
is like the proverbial mule that has to be hit over the head with a
huge
two-by-four to get its attention.

Iran has to be hit hard enough to take the world's breath away. There
is no
other solution. Nothing less will do. The Miss Popularity Contest is
over.

It's time to get tough. In the words of Machiavelli in The Prince
(chapter 17),
"A prince must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose
of
keeping his subjects united and faithful; for, with a very few
examples, he will
be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow
disorders to
arise, from whence spring bloodshed and rapine." Whether we are dealing
with
subjects or enemies, and certainly enemies bent on our destruction, an
excess of
tenderness only leads to a loss of mercy. In the words of Midrash
Rabbah on
Kohelet 7, "He who is merciful to the cruel is destined to be cruel to
the merciful."

The world is full of feckless schemes for dealing with Iran. Excluding
whimpering pleas for diplomacy, so that the Iranians can continue to
string the
world along, Israel has to take military action; however, most of the
military
plans discussed in public won't work.

For instance, there is the proposal to drop bunker-buster bombs on
Iranian
nuclear sites. This won't work because bunker-buster bombs will not
penetrate
the earth deep enough to reach the most deeply buried nuclear sites;
such as one
hundreds of feet below ground in Neyshabour, where Iran will soon have
155,000
advanced P2 centrifuges that will be able to produce enough bomb-grade
enriched
uranium for a bomb in as little as a couple of weeks.

Another proposal is to drop huge "daisy cutter" bombs on nuclear sites
to
flatten them, spiked with enriched uranium dust to prevent Iranians
from
venturing into the areas for years. This doesn't get into the
subterranean areas and just puts a scab over them. The Iranians might
still tunnel in and, in any
case, they don't care if they live or die, so the uranium probably
won't stop
them from salvaging the equipment.

There is also the problem that Iran has gotten state-of-the-art Russian

anti-aircraft defenses, and you can't just fly planes in there so
easily.

There is also the problem that, whereas at one time Iran's entire
nuclear
program was in one location, there are now hundreds of nuclear sites
all over
the country.

Some have considered nuclear bunker-buster bombs, but dropping hundreds
of
atomic bombs on Iran is going to produce a lot of radiation that could
come back
to Israel. There is a serious question as to whether Israel has the
will to do
that, especially if it has to be done again every few years, as one
Muslim
country after another nears nuclear capability.

But there is a much easier, more gentle solution, and it is the only
plan that
would get all the Iranian nuclear sites. It depends, sorry, on Israel
getting over its allergy to territory and ground invasions. The IDF is
not an air
force.

*** Here's the plan. Israel can drop a relative handful of neutron
bombs (which
it possesses) *** not on Iranian nuclear sites, but on Iranian and
Syrian
conventional forces, armies and airfields, which would make a ground
invasion a
cakewalk. Then, Israeli forces could seize the nuclear sites, show them
to the
world and then destroy them. With invading Israeli ground forces, you
don't have
to drop an atom bomb on a nuclear plant. You can seize the sites and
take the
stairs.

The neutron bomb is a nuclear weapon, but it's different from other
nuclear
weapons. It doesn't destroy property. It merely releases radiation, and
the
radiation fallout is gone after only about a week. You can actually
drive
Israeli tanks right through a neutroned area a mere week later with no
danger to
Israeli troops. The neutron bomb won't produce devastated cities for
CNN to take
pictures of and scream about.

The neutron bomb also won't destroy Iranian nuclear sites. But it
doesn't have to. Irradiated enemy planes,
tanks and missiles would still be mostly intact, but the enemy soldiers
manning
them would be dead. No matter how advanced Iranian and Syrian anti-tank
missiles
are, they are useless if their operators are dead.

Israel has three-stage missiles that can go twice the distance to Iran
and they
can be tipped with the neutron bomb (or worse). A small handful of
neutron bombs
dropped on military forces in Iran and Syria would instantly render
both
countries militarily incapacitated. Once the radiation in those
military areas
had cleared, a week later, Israeli ground forces could safely invade,
move
through Syria and on into Iran and literally take over the whole
country. Then,
all Iranian nuclear sites could be seized without hardly firing a shot
and then
destroyed. All of them. Anything buried deep underground could be
accessed the
same way the Iranians do, by taking the stairs.

This same method could be used on any other Muslim country getting the
bomb in the future. The Muslim world would instantly see, in
an Israeli attack on Iran, that Israel could use the same approach on
them if
they too sought a nuclear arsenal. The plan involves destroying a
nation's
conventional armed forces in the course of destroying its nuclear
program, a
powerful deterrent to having such a program. In such a future conflict,
any
country in the way could simply be told to stand down, back off and
allow an
access corridor - or face the same neutron fate as Syria or Iran.

This is the only plan that would make it possible to get all Iranian
nuclear
facilities. It wouldn't just "set them back a few years," it would set
them back
all the way to the beginning of their nuclear program. It would ruin
them.

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