This is the Bullshit the Liberal lefties commies are spreading. Iran needs to be put down while we can still do it easily compared to fighting a hypersonic rocket nuclear war
The US and Iran have intensified tit-for-tat military strikes in recent days, remaining locked between ceasefire and all-out war as the White House struggles to end the six-month conflict.“Very clearly militarily, we are stalled,” Republican Representative Pat Harrigan of North Carolina, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said in an interview on Wednesday. “There’s no question about that.” The latest back and forth has seen Iran hit merchant vessels, spurring the US to strike Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites that were used for targeting ships in the Strait of Hormuz. That led to Iran firing missiles and drones on US bases in the region, including in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain. Brent crude oil has climbed more than 6% this week to $95 a barrel, while US pump prices for diesel are at a four-year high. The jump in energy costs has contributed to a global bond sell-off. The hostilities have underscored Iran’s continued ability to choke a crucial maritime artery. The Hormuz strait handled a fifth of oil and liquefied natural gas flows before the war. Iran and the US seem far from getting back to formal negotiations and their so-called memorandum of understanding, signed in mid-June, expired without the sides making much progress toward a permanent peace deal. “Both sides are progressively upping the ante with new conditions for a return to talks,” Dina Esfandiary and Becca Wasser of Bloomberg Economics wrote. “This means the uneasy stalemate — even with occasional flare-ups in violence — will continue for now.” “I don’t think either side has a well-developed strategy of victory,” said Jon Alterman, global strategy and security chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “For the Iranians, mere survival is victory. For the Americans, it’s not acceptable to let the Iranians control the strait. But it’s hard to find a way to keep the Iranians from threatening the strait.” The US blockade is the best available option, and imposes considerable pressure on Iran, said Michael O’Hanlon, defense and strategy chair at the Brookings Institution. The military presence enables and complements the economic campaign spearheaded by Bessent, he said. “We can keep 15 ships operating in the Persian Gulf as long as we need to,” O’Hanlon said. “Compared to any other military operation I can think of at this stage in the showdown, this is the best one for us.” Harrigan, the Republican lawmaker, believes the US has accomplished some of the goals it laid out at the beginning of the conflict but is now “stuck.” “We have to stop fighting a limited war” indefinitely, “thinking that we’re going to use limited conflict to achieve unlimited outcomes,” he said. “What we’re doing right now is irresponsible and we need to make a decision.”