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What to do about Iran—a plan
Unlike many, I do not dismiss the Iranian nuclear threat. To the contrary, an Iran with nuclear weapons could Finlandize the West through nuclear blackmail. I can see no way of stopping such a frightful and intolerable situation from coming into being other than through the use of military force against Iran. Can anyone see any other way? Arthur Herman in the November Commentary lays out a plausible military strategy by which the U.S. could cripple Iran’s nuclear program and its oil industry, while also destroying Iran’s ability to choke off the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, so weakening the country economically that the regime might well fall—and all this without a land invasion of Iran. Herman’s article has nothing to do with neocon fantasies of global sameness. It is a rational attempt to solve a real-world problem that we cannot ignore.
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