…you know he doesn’t mince words. Enter Ace, retired Commander in Chief of the US Pacific fleet. As a four-star general in the 80s, he was privy to plenty of classified information about our enemies, notably Iran. His column this week in the Washington Times outlines, in his view, our present options in dealing with the Iranian threat. One particular piece of information caught my eye:
In the Gulf tanker war of 1986-88, we developed a strike plan that would have shut down Iran. That plan, appropriately updated, would be effective today and can be carried out while we are still engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the full plan were implemented, the Iranian economy would be ground to a halt. Iran’s current customers, China, Japan, Russia, et al., would feel the full impact.
According to Lyons, we currently have a perfectly good strike plan that can take down Iran with minimal casualties. Naturally, this is hardly Hillary Clinton’s favorite thing to talk about. Ace, though, believes “containment is not a viable option” with Iran. Though there is intense pressure on Obama to negotiate and sanction our way out of a nuclear Iran, it is increasingly apparent that it ain’t gonna work. Perhaps it’s time for Ace to come out of retirement?
