Michael Ledeen, having been right all along (see, e.g., Accomplice to Evil and The Iranian Time Bomb) takes to his Pajamas blog to consider the “grim news that geopolitical ‘experts’ are thinking deeply about what to do after Iran gets the bomb.” After extending kudos to excellent essays on the folly of “containment” by Cliff, Mike Anton, and Bret Stephens, Michael observes that by settling into an “Iran-with-nukes” framework, our solons have obviously accepted its “inevitability.” Worse, “they continue to skim over the basic facts about the world and the war in which we are so deeply engaged.”

Nuclear weapons are not, and have never been, the main problem when it comes to Iran. (My own best shot at making this point is here.) As Michael has been arguing for years, the main problem is the regime — its incorrigible nature, its unbending determination to spread its sharia revolution, and ”the war Iran is waging against us right now.” He elaborates:

There is an amazing unwillingness to grant that American soldiers are being killed every day by Iranian proxies and by Iranian fighters (mostly from the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force), mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those killers are trained in Iran, funded by Iran, armed by Iran, and provided intelligence from Iran. They do not need nukes to kill us, but the experts obsessively focus their attention on the nuclear question.

In wondering why our experts and leaders don’t seem to “care about evil people who kill Americans,” Michael recounts the very different containment executed by American administrations of both parties:

Back when containment of the Soviet Empire was in vogue, we fought back when Soviet proxies attacked our friends and allies. We fought proxy wars from Latin America to Africa to Afghanistan. If there had been Soviet attacks against American military installations, we would have struck back. But Iran is different. We are not striking back.

Read the whole thing, here.