People who are upset about the Iran intervention invariably operate on the fallacy that we can simply avoid this conflict by making non-interventionist policy decisions. I’m sorry but that’s simply not true. The Iranian regime believes itself to be operating on a divine mandate to expedite the return of the 12th Imam, which would be accomplished with the complete destruction of Israel and the United Ststes. They have sought fervently to develop their intercontinental ballistic missile program so that they may effect our destruction from their mountain hideaways and await the coming of global Islamic rule. It has to be dealt with before they get anywhere close to putting nuclear tips on long range missiles, and thankfully the US and Israel have been launching operations over the last few decades to obstruct that very process. Alas, those bandaids cannot hold forever. Action had to be taken and the inevitably of this conflict has been known by everyone familiar with this 50 year standoff. Those who say this is a ‘war of choice’ are absolutely right. It’s a choice between sticking our fingers in our ears and pretend that Islamofascist lunatics do not aim to destroy Western civilization, or actually doing something about it. It is a hard task but please don’t kid yourself into thinking it will magically disappear by electing isolationists.