What next on Kharg?

This is very much a gun-to-the-head moment, but not in an "open the strait or else" way. It's a guarantee of MAD—mutually assured destruction. If Iran disables the other Gulf states' infrastructure to produce and transport oil, Iran will suffer the same fate.

So why take out all of the regime's military targets on Kharg Island now? Three reasons: practicality, disable the dead man's switch, and lastly starve the regime.

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Before launching into the explanation, this campaign should be framed as a traditional American punitive expedition. Prior to the Spanish-American War, most US foreign military actions were of this type. Think of the Barbary Pirate Wars and countless Latin American interventions. The connection is that these were swift, brutal, accomplished with minimal forces (usually Marines), and achieved limited, achievable objectives.

This is not one of the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden forever wars about Operation Useless Dirt, designed to enrich Lindsey Graham and the rest of the Military Industrial Complex warmongers and K Street swamp creatures.

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