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October 11, 2012

'Surgical' Iran Strike Is Impossible

Heather Hurlburt, The Daily Beast

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Senior Pentagon officials, Israeli experts, and outside military analysts have said again and again that there is no surgical strike option. Supporters and opponents have agreed that any strike, in order to have even a delaying effect on the Iranian nuclear program, would have to be sustained, broad, and massive.

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