US Needs to Hit Iran Harder to End the War

... So we’re really talking about 90-plus days of negotiations and 38 days of actual fighting. 

That should tell us something about what the Iranian strategy is. They want to talk, talk, talk, and they do not want to fight, fight, fight...

Part of the problem is that we have knocked out at least three centers of the four of their government. The theocracy with the death of Khamenei and the disabling of his son and killing of many of the others is sort of inert. We’ve taken out a lot of the heads of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. 

There’s a lot of military planners that were central to Iran’s military, industrial, nuclear complex that are gone, and we have a few elected leaders...

Notice they don’t ever hit Israel. They don’t ever hit Israel because Israel has announced that their response will be disproportionate and aimed at the surviving government...

We can either stop all of their supplies, and I mean all of them. That is, we can take out their airlift capacity, their airport. We can take out all the rail lines over land to China. We can take out the Caspian Sea ports. We can not allow any seaborne traffic into Iran.  

And we can take out their electrical generation plant, short out the grid take out more...

We’ve taken out their 47-year, half a trillion-dollar military investment...

... we’re not going to get into this tit-for-tat cycle, that these other countries will be able to keep the Strait of Hormuz open...

I’m getting at we need to up the level of damage we do to Iran, and unfortunately that might entail dual targeting electrical plants, roads, bridges, and the actual barracks, camps, military facilities of all the various aspects of the Iranian military...