We don’t need to actively attack Iran… yet.
What should be done is an IMMEDIATE naval blockade of Iran. No oil gets out. No gasoliine gets in. We tell the mullahs the blockade stays until the leadership of Iran turns over the British sailors illegally kidnapped and pledges not to do it again.
I think we’ll get the sailors back, maybe a little worse for wear, but no way will Iran pledge to refrain from further provocations… that would be too much loss of face. It doesn’t matter. We made our point, got the sailors back, and eroded support for the extremists in the government with the population and with the less-extreme elements. And, we further weaken the tottering Iranian economy, and greatly reduce their gasoline stocks so if we have to go in we’ll be fighting a mob on foot, not a well-armed and well-trained military.
Ultimately, though, we’re going to have to go in to Iran. It was obvious that after 9/11 the only way we’d get a lasting peace in the Middle East was to get rid of the troublemakers: Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Iran is and has been the largest troublemaker, Iraq was next, but Iraq was centrally located and strategically the best place to clean out first. Most of our problems in Iraq are being caused by Iran and its proxies. When will we realize this and drain the swamp, instead of dinking with the alligators?
