“a half-cocked military strike is not the way to bring this about.”

Boy, I sure agree with that. It’s going to take a well planned and executed air campaign backed with a good solid naval blockade lasting at least nine minths in order to effect the necessary changes. I belive that the initial target set numbers about 350 sites so we’ll probably have to ramp up Tomahawk production in order to maintain sufficient inventory.

Of course, there are thousands of people in the five sided building who have addressed more issues than anyone posting here can imagine, so I suppose we might leave the actual planning to them.

Or, we can wait for the “peaceful transition” in the manner for which the ME is so well noted.