VDH: Iran May Attack

Victor Davis Hanson writes for The Hoover Institution's Defining Ideas journal that Iran may make the same miscalculations that were made by China invading Korea, by Egypt in the Yom Kippur War, Argentina in the Falkland Islands, and Iraq in invading Kuwait. Hanson's conclusion will give you pause:

An Iranian attack on a U.S. vessel would be an insane act that would ensure that Iran paid a heavy price for its folly—or so we think. But to Iran, there are other considerations, with ample historical precedent, that make what we consider to be unthinkable perhaps not all that unthinkable at all.

We should not shrug off the possibility of Iran initiating hostilities. Hanson draws some interesting parallels between Iran and those earlier aggressors.