This is claimed to be Israel's (no longer) secret war plan

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Don't worry, I miss it too. At least you knew your enemy back then.

I understand Israels motives for a strike, it is a matter of survival, however once they have undertaken the first strike they have committed themselves to a program of continual strikes against an enemy which will be supplied by Russia and China, whilst further isolating themselves from international support and risking cutting their support from America. It's a short term victory but a long term defeat.
And even if America does reduce the Iranian nuclear program to a fine layer of dust, how long will it take until Iran has rebuilt that program? Particularly if it gets covert Chinese and Russian support? And this time that program will have Russian and Chinese made weapons guarding it, which means that when the US comes to reduce the program to dust for a second time it will be more costly, and then Iran will rebuild it for a third time, and so on and so forth.
If the Germans had bombed the Los Alamos laboratory in 1943, would the US have given up on the Manhatten Project? No, it would have had a big setback, yes, but it would still have carried on, and with Iran it's even worse because Iran knows what a nuclear weapon can do, whereas the US only had an idea of the potential of one.

what would you suggest that they do,then, if you do not want to strike Iran every couple of years?