Should the U.S. Use Military Force Against Iran?

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Should we take military action against Iran? Yes, if it is a war to defeat the Islamist regime in Teheran, and not a pinprick attack or another Iraq.

Many people rightly worry about the prospect that Iran may soon have a nuke. But that particular weapon--despite its power--cannot be the whole story, since we don't worry about other countries, such as France and Britain, having nukes. The difference is that the regime in Iran would eagerly press the launch button to attack us. Indeed, the Iranian regime long ago proved itself a deadly threat that must be ended militarily.

For three decades the ayatollahs of Iran have been waging a jihad against America and the West using proxies--such as Hezbollah--to carry out murderous attacks. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps helped create and train Hezbollah, which hijacked a TWA airliner and which kidnapped and tortured to death American citizens. Iran pulled the strings behind the 1983 bomb attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon and later the barracks of U.S. Marines, killing 241 Americans. Iran also orchestrated the 1996 car bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, where 19 U.S. servicemen died.

There’s more: The 9/11 Commission found that "senior al Qaeda operatives and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives," and that "8 to 10 of the 14 Saudi 'muscle' operatives traveled into or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001." Today, according to the U.S. military, Iran is running training camps near Teheran for Iraqi insurgents, who return to Iraq to practice and train others in their bomb-making skills. There's also growing evidence that Iraqi insurgents get bomb technology from Iran.