The Case For Regime Change in Iran
Go Big -- Then Go Home
Jamie M. Fly and Gary SchmittJAMIE M. FLY is executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. GARY SCHMITT is Director of Advanced Strategic Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
(Courtesy Reuters)
It has been the policy of U.S. presidents over the last three decades to state that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable. Yet as Iran moves closer to achieving that goal, political leaders, including key Obama administration officials such as Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, have begun to waver. They now speak more frequently about the potentially disastrous consequences of an Israeli or U.S. military strike on Iran's nuclear program than about the dangers of a nuclear Iran.
Matthew Kroenig thus deserves credit for advancing the argument that the repercussions of a military attack on Iran's nuclear program are a worthwhile risk, given the far more dangerous consequences of Iran getting the bomb ("Time to