What can be done that hasn’t been done before? Just throwing it out for discussion.
Great Question!!
This is what I would do. I would destroy all ports in Iran and all port cities. People should be told it’s coming and evacuate to the interior of the nation. Then, I would destroy all bridges and roads that don’t lead to Pakistan or Afghanistan. Those that cross the desert would be left intact and open for traffic for now. Then I would destroy every dam, every power station, every water pumping station, and EVERY SINGLE OIL WELL AND REFINERY. They would all burn uncontrollably for now.
Then, and only after all that, I would tell the people to leave the cities and villages. I would subsequently carpet bomb every city and village to ruins, or just fire bomb it.
This is going to end ugly sooner or later, and it’s better that this conflict doesn’t take the entire world out with it. Time to channel some LeMay, Sherman, Pershing, Grant, and other people that truly understood what war is supposed to be. War is what you do when all diplomacy fails, and it should be very violent and very deadly.
Thanks for the detailed response.
What you described might be necessary. But it goes very much beyond what might be described as a police action.
So shouldn’t the president have to go before Congress and ask for a Declaration of War, as required by the Constitution?
Is it total war this time? No fighting with one arm tied behind our back? Or will JD be trotted out to once again say there will be no ground action?
You’re right This is a brutal civilizational war between western values and 7th century religious barbarism. We’ve only had one like that before, World War Two with the Japanese, which was only ended by massive terror bombing punctuated by nuking them. Short of that we need to do exactly the same thing to Iran.
I agree. However, this would take an act of war AND the will/agreement of the American people. Our congress and nation is so divided, and when you throw in RINOs, you end up with representatives and a people who frankly are unwilling to do what needs to be done to destroy nations/governments that are ruled by muslim fanatics.
The war that needs to be won is the one that's raging in our nation.