The U.S. and Iran edged closer to a military confrontation on Thursday as Iranian forces shot down an American reconnaissance drone and President Trump charged that Tehran had made ‘a very big mistake.’
As the hours went by, each side refrained from additional escalatory steps, and Mr. Trump later appeared to defuse the crisis by suggesting that the shootdown might have been done without the blessing of Tehran’s top leadership.
‘I imagine someone made a mistake,’ Mr. Trump told reporters.
(The Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2019)
A mistake?
Only this draft-dodging coward, masquerading as president of the United States, would offer such a lame, bone-spurred excuse to avoid a fight.
But here’s what he should do:
- Command military to prepare missile strikes on two Iranian warships.
- Have Swiss intermediaries give Iran two hours to evacuate all personnel from every one of its warships—whether in port or at sea.
- Explain that the US intends to destroy only two of them as a proportionate response to its downing of that US drone. (The assumption is that one US drone is worth two Iranian warships.)
- Call for those strikes as soon as those two hours are up.
- Key in the American people from the Oval Office. Assure them that it’s up to Iran to determine what happens next, making it clear to the world that any further military attacks by Iran will be met with “fire and fury”—without warning or such care for its military personnel this time.
This is all it would take to check Iran’s aggressive behavior. As for North Korea – see related commentary.
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