Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
The United States is now weighing two choices. One is to end the war and get some sort of deal, or, issuing a final one-week deadline for Iran to concede to U.S. demands. The point would be to inflict enough damage on the Iranian theocracy and its appendages to end the current off-and-on war. Either such Iranian concessions or such destruction would humiliate the regime, neuter its military, and halt its nuclear aspirations for decades, leaving it ripe for internal uprising—and reminding the world there is a limit to unpredictable U.S. patience and placidity.
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