How to Handle Iran
Glenn Reynolds says attack -- surgically:
This has been obvious for a long time anyway, and I don't understand why the Bush Administration has been so slow to respond. Nor do I think that high-profile diplomacy, or an invasion, is an appropriate response. We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs' expat business interests out of business, etc. Basically, stepping on the Iranians' toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq. And we should have been doing this since the summer 2003. But as far as I can tell, we've done nothing along these lines.UPDATE: Jules Crittenden notes:
[Ahmadinejad] probably doesn’t know the serial numbers of the .50 caliber Steyr-Mannlicher sniper rifles that somehow found their way from Iran to Iraq, where one of them killed an American 45 days after they were shipped from Austria.