Remember the TV game show called “Let’s Make a Deal”? Contestants would choose one of three doors, hoping it concealed a great prize.
The present churning on Iran feels like that show. President Trump has faced two unpalatable options: Door One: Do nothing and, effectively assure the mullahs’ regime remains in place – including its covert nuclear weapons program. Or Door Two: Bomb a very hard Iranian nuclear target and become engaged military in another Mideast war.
Instead of giving the ayatollahs two more weeks to agree they won’t “get the Bomb,” which amounts to Door One, he should take Door Three: Require the mullahs’ true “unconditional surrender,” meaning the liberation of the Iranian people.
Anything less means victory for the Sharia-supremacists and ensures much more of the truly “endless war” they have waged against us from Iran for over forty years.
This is Frank Gaffney.