From my most recent NRO article, on the anti-Mitt surge and the road ahead: “The wild card in the electoral deck is Iran. Sanctions haven’t accomplished much; they almost never do, and Mrs. Clinton’s talk of ‘crippling sanctions’ was just what you get when you press the button to air-dry your hands in a public lavatory. But the combination of the unfathomable incompetence of the Iranian government and escalating sanctions may stir the ayatollahs to impetuosity. Their threat last week to close the Strait of Hormuz provoked worldwide censure. . . . Such an outrageous initiative by Iran would so galvanize international opinion, and so vividly highlight the madly belligerent nature of the regime, that there would be no serious opposition to taking out Iran’s nuclear program while the U.S. military was at it. Any such action would be justified and admirable and beneficent in itself. It would also probably reelect this administration. Presumably, the president is aware of that.”

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