CIA 'warns Iran will attack Israel within 48 hours

Consider your position on the use of military strikes as a form of retaliation; do they resolve conflicts or exacerbate tensions?

Since 1979, Iran has been the real problem in the region. We've dissipated our national power in Afghanistan when we embarked on nation building instead of what should have been a punitive campaign. By invading Iraq and deposing the Suni regime, we facilitated expanding Iranian influence and opened their supply lines. Now we are vacillating on our support for Israel. We're led by such fools we can't get out of our own way.

I often think back to 2009 when 3 million people took to the streets of Tehran in protest of the Islamic regime and in support of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. There was the real possibility of regime change because the populace was galvanized around an alternative potential leader. We kept waiting to see what Obama would do. I kept thinking that he was keeping so quiet because there must have been some plan to help the demonstrators. Instead, there was nothing. Hardly any comments giving support to the demonstrators and no threats to the despicable Iranian regime. Instead, the Iranian people have liv…  Read moreed through another 15 years of hellish tyranny, and there is no hope in sight because anyone who emerges as a potential opposition leader is swiftly murdered. Tehran is wreaking havoc and, similarly to Obama, all Biden does is lob a few small missiles at Yemen without ever taking on Iran directly.