I'm asking in honesty, not using the question to merely attack your opinion. I recognize there are things I have probably not considered.
I'm asking in honesty, not using the question to merely attack your opinion. I recognize there are things I have probably not considered.
It is easier and more likely to succeed. Also, stuxnet has now been repurposed by multiple governments and criminal organizations. So, it’s creators built a symmetric capability, and gave it to their adversaries, when they could have used asymmetric capabilities that are more expensive to reproduce.
[edit: Also, it is still well within the Iranians’ capabilities to build a bomb, and our recent foreign policy greatly increases the chances that hard liners will take over and restart the program.
Contrast this to the outcome of the broader cold world strategy, which was a regime change to a relatively US-friendly government.]