A crushing military blow on Iran is necessary to create a Middle East and a broader world where Washington and its friends are far stronger, and their enemies far weaker, than ever before.
The oh-so-sophisticated foreign policy specialists and expert defense analysts are out in full force explaining to anybody who will listen that it would be a mistake for US President Trump to attack Iran.
A military assault on Tehran will not save the brave Iranian protesters from savage repression by the Basijand Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, say the “experts.” It won’t bring about regime change; it will only rally Iranians around the regime. At best, it will bring to power an alternative Iranian dictator, a military general perhaps, who will be as repressive and aggressive as the ayatollahs. It will only dent and delay the Iranian nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs.
A military assault on Tehran will not save the brave Iranian protesters from savage repression by the Basijand Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, say the “experts.” It won’t bring about regime change; it will only rally Iranians around the regime. At best, it will bring to power an alternative Iranian dictator, a military general perhaps, who will be as repressive and aggressive as the ayatollahs. It will only dent and delay the Iranian nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs.
All that may be partially true, but this (mis)analysis misses the point: A significant US strike on Iran is critical to resetting the regional and international balance of power. A crushing military blow on Iran is necessary to create a Middle East and a broader world where Washington and its friends are far stronger, and their enemies far weaker, than ever before. Indeed, that is what Trump’s second term as president is all about. As Elliott Abrams wrote last spring in Foreign Affairs, “The United States now has a chance to keep Iran and its allies off balance. Because the only true solution to the problem of the Islamic Republic is its demise, the United States and allies should mount a pressure campaign on behalf of the Iranian people – who wish for the regime’s end more fervently than any foreigner.”
...US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said it colorfully this week. In his trademark forthright and folksy style, he noted that “many plates of poison” are coming from Iran, and that it is best to “burn the kitchen down.” “Many plates of poison – Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Houthis – are being all served out of the same kitchen, Tehran,” Huckabee noted at the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem. “You can change the menu; better to burn the kitchen down and not let them serve those plates anymore.” (Read More)
