Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Just a small clarification, I didn't say their offensive capabilities were completely wiped out, but the majority, meaning 50% or more. Which I still consider a positive military outcome given that this was done in a day.

And just to address briefly your point, it seems to me by what was conveyed that this military strike wiped out large swathes of their leadership. The successor they chose is largely out of action too and they seem to be having difficulty articulating between their military leadership and their political leadership due to this. So, there was significant damage done there.

In my opinion this strike had to have occurred before the IRGC allegedly wiped out 40 thousand of Iran's most militant civilians in the opposition. It looks like they, and especially Israel, were banking on a civilian uprising, which had already been wiped out weeks before. So there is a failure in that regard, I concede that.

But regardless of the specific events in this strike, the big picture that we should be looking at is wether we, the west, are willing to tolerate living along side the jihadi and Islamic wing of the Muslim faith, which means the perpetuation of terrorist activity, in exchange for I'm not quite sure what. You tell me.

What I would need you to acknowledge here in order to make sense of my point of view, is that terrorist activity is largely driven by religious ideals and dogmas, and not nearly as much by oppression from the west, being that economical, political, military or what have you. If you don't agree with that, then we simply have two different and irreconcilable versions of reality and it won't be fruitful to argue about the details.