WWIT about Iran

What was I thinking about Iran in Early March 2026? Three days ago the US and Israel in a joint operation killed the leadership of Iran with bombs and are now continuing to bomb sites throughout Iran. Iran is retaliating as best it can by sending missiles and drones at countries with US bases.

I should not be entrusted with making foreign policy. I would have nuked Iran when they took the US embassy personnel hostage in 1979 and I would have retaliated against Iran when they armed the PLO and Hezbollah. My general idea about how to keep peace in the world is to on a fairly regular basis take out one of the worst despots. It will in my opinion keep the despots from being too aggressive against their people and their neighbors. And it has worked. Reagan’s missile attacks against Libya kept North Africa quiet for twenty plus years. Perhaps this move will bring Putin and China to the table about Ukraine and Taiwan.

What about the argument that only Congress can declare war? Modern communications have made that doctrine obsolete as shown by the need for the war powers act. Iran has been shouting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” for forty years. Now is their chance to put up or shut up.

I would have done it differently, but I would have done what needed to be done to keep Iran from having nuclear weapons and from controlling the Straits of Hormuz (the oil spigot of the world). Congress should have been consulted if it could have been done without tipping off the Islamic Republic. I don’t see how when there are members of Congress who hate Trump more than they love America.

So I think I support the policy but not man. I hope they find some rational people to run Iran before it become anarchic and I hope that the new regime leaves Israel alone. I predict that this move will usher in thirty years of relative peace in the Middle East.

One final thought. No regime change has ever been effected by bombing campaigns alone.

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