The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Reynolds Fires Back
A week ago I discussed Glenn Reynolds' rather novel suggestion for a solution to the Iran problem--sending in Special Ops teams to take out the nuclear (and perhaps political) principals.
I thought at the time and think now that his suggestion might be the best of both worlds: it avoids invasion and the political firestorm an invasion would cause; it solves the immediate nuclear problem--and sends a clear message to other regimes contemplating similar plans; and lastly it would likely create a great amount of instability in Iran that would hopefully cause the citizenry to rise up against the mullahs.
But Reynolds has also created quite a firestorm of his own, simply by making the suggestion. Today, Reynolds answers his critics. Heh.
I thought at the time and think now that his suggestion might be the best of both worlds: it avoids invasion and the political firestorm an invasion would cause; it solves the immediate nuclear problem--and sends a clear message to other regimes contemplating similar plans; and lastly it would likely create a great amount of instability in Iran that would hopefully cause the citizenry to rise up against the mullahs.
But Reynolds has also created quite a firestorm of his own, simply by making the suggestion. Today, Reynolds answers his critics. Heh.
Labels: Iran, Iraq, Military, War strategy
