What do we do about a problem named Iran?

What would I do about Iran? God knows. I don’t have access to the intelligence, whatever it is, about the locations and defenses of their nuclear facilities. Nor do I know lots of other relevant stuff. So I can’t possibly know what, if anything, a military response should look like. Bush has said that possession of nukes by Iran is unacceptable. I feel the same way. Of course we shouldn’t pay any price, but I do think we should be prepared to pay a fairly high one, to take them out, assuming it’s even possible. My guess would be that it is possible with some kind of military operation to, if not completely destroy their nuclear capability, to at least set it back significantly.

But we should just let Israel do it. They have to do it anyway. They don’t really have a choice, no matter what the blowback is. The president of Iran has called for them to wiped off the map, and there is every reason to take him at his word.

The other option is to foment revolution, but again I am far too ignorant of the facts of the matter to have any idea of the feasibility of such a thing. Assuming there is something the U.S. can do to encourage and support revolution, we should be doing it.

This entry was posted in General. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *