MOPping Up Iran – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

This is the way things are supposed to be done. The United States doesn’t need permission from the United Nations or the European Union or anyone else. When we determine that our people, our interests or our allies are in grave danger, we strike decisively at any peoples or targets that are creating the threat.
Iran is a revolutionary power which has bound itself to spread its hateful intolerance across the world.
As President Trump described it on Saturday night, American B-2 bombers, and probably other U.S. and Israeli aircraft struck several targets in Iran including the principal Iranian nuclear weapons development facilities at Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz. Trump said all were obliterated which may be an exaggeration. Nevertheless, all three sites were badly damaged.
All war, as Sun Tzu wrote about 2,400 years ago, is deception. According to news reports some of our aircraft approached from the West, some from the East. There were no leaks of the operation. A lot of credit has to go to our new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Dan Caine, USAF.
The last time President Trump gave Iran a deadline it was 60 days to come to an agreement effectively banning its nuclear weapons program. On the 61 day, Israel began dropping bombs.
This time Trump gave the Iranians two weeks to negotiate a deal, a deadline which would have run out on July 3. Too bad he cut it short and did what should have been done years ago. We had allowed the Iranians to lie, cheat, and steal about their nuclear weapons program for far too long. There needed to be a reckoning and now there has been one.
The ayatollahs have been enormously weakened and there are scattered reports about Iranian biggies fleeing the country.  But, as Bing West asked in National Review, what is our endgame? What are we trying to do?
There is really only one choice.
We’re now back to those evil old “neocon” words: regime change. We may have been unwise to overthrow Saddam. But the ayatollahs are a vastly more serious probl…