Tuesday, October 17, 2023

What Iran Seeks

Power Line’s Scott Johnson posts a pithy paragraph by historian Walter Russell Mead from a column in the Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).

The truth is simple. Iran is at war with Israel and with the U.S. It does not seek compromise or accommodation. It does not want its interests respected or its grievances redressed. It wants what it says it wants: a holocaust in Israel and the destruction of the U.S.

Indeed, and it wants them without the US visiting mass destruction on Iran. We should want regime change in Iran, preferably without genocidal destruction there at our hands.