| | Ed Hudgins writes:
Iran does not directly threaten us at this time and as abhorrent as its government is, it hasn't attacked America or Americans yet. There's no reason to attack it at this time when other methods might be less costly and avoid the consequences outlined by Krauthammer. I agree that Krauthammer is relatively terrific, and that he makes many good and important practical points in his article. But I wonder: What are the "other methods" being alluded to? America seems to have been hugely patient for decades, and tried just about everything. Hasn't Iran implicitly been asking for an immense airstrike for 2 or 5 or 10 or 25 years now? Hasn't the West's evident lack of certainty, lack of confidence, weakness, timidity, confusion, quietism, passivism, and defeatism -- all in the face of a pure and blatant enemy -- directly and indirectly encouraged jihadis, tyrants, and evil-doers massively, and for a long time now?
And is it really true that manifestly-jihadist Iran hasn't threatened or attacked America? They've been openly calling us "the Great Satan" for 27 years now! This seems like a huge implied threat. The also have an official "Death to America!" Day. And right off the bat, the Islamic State took 56 or so hostages for 444 days and paid virtually no price. They created and funded Hezbollah which killed 231 marines in 1983. For many years now Iran seems to have been copiously aiding American-murdering jihadis in Iraq. And these Khomeini-lovers seem to be aiding and abetting jihadis, tyrants, mass-murderers, and general Western enemies around the world as much as they can -- but just below our nitwit threshold of notice and reaction.
I think Iran's top thousand or so government, military, police, and religious officials and leaders should have been targeted a long time ago. They seem like pure evil and pretty formidable opponents. They seem like the utter enemies of almost all Iranians, Americans, and good people everywhere. Idealistically, pragmatically, and symbolically, I say: Attack!
(Edited by Andre Zantonavitch on 9/19, 3:03am)
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