Stop Dithering on Iran

David Frum writes:

The Democrats and President Bush’s critics want endlessly to reargue the war in Iraq. But the world has not ceased to revolve while we examine our navels. The Middle East continues to fester – Iran is heading toward a crisis that its leaders believe they can survive only by intimidation and terror – and the United States cannot much longer postpone deciding what it will do about this menace.

SWLiP finds this to be an excellent one-paragraph summation of what is currently facing us. Allowing the Left to bog us down in recriminations over the veracity of prewar intelligence on Iraq's WMD makes about as much sense as it would have made to bring WWII to a screeching halt on D-day + 1. Our military success in Iraq only gives us a beach-head to prosecute a much larger conflict, although the primary context should, for the time being, remain largely political.

We will not have finished the job until the mullahs in Iran are out of power, Syria is brought to heel (at a minimum), and the Saudi royal family is scared so shitless it will do anything we say.

And that, dear readers, is why come election day you need to ask yourself only one question as you step into the voting booth: Which candidate do the bad guys want to win?

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