How I Tried to Bomb Iran Into the Stone Age, Part I

[DicedT]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2012/10/19/how-i-tried-to-bomb-iran-into-the-stone-age-part-i/

[MengJiao]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2012/10/19/how-i-tried-to-bomb-iran-into-the-stone-age-part-i/

I'm a little puzzled about the narration of decision-making here.  Why is attacking without any allies a good plan?
Wouldn't it be worth it consider thinking about a few countries that aren't on the security council such as Turkey or
Egypt or Pakistan?

Also, if the target is nuclear weapons, why not limit the strikes to just the Iranian Air Defense, knock that out and then
hit one or two nuclear targets?  You might want to hold the nuke production hostage so that the Iranians have something to
bargin for.

Of course this assumes you can knock out their air defense, but then so does bombing them into the stone age.