Critics of actions by Israel, then America, against Iran make five fatal errors in their assumptions about propriety and just cause of war.
Iran is much weaker after attacks by Israel and then the United States, and will not be able to help Russia as it has.
Donald Trump does politics as battle, and Niccolo Machiavelli, that cynical student of human nature, would definitely have approved.
History affords few relevant examples to judge the effectiveness or the result of the recent operation against Iran and its nuclear program.
The United States could have had three reasons to attack Iran, depending on whom or what you believe about the initial conditions.
Iran still holds at least two Americans and several other Westerners in a prison that had a bomb dropped on or near its front gate.
The timing of the strike on Iran, by order of President Donald J. Trump, was perfect for an operation twenty years in the making.
The opening gambits by Israel against Iran over its nuclear development program are an extension of the Begin Doctrine from 1981.
Donald Trump said he would never let Iran develop nuclear weapons - and over the weekend he made good on his promise.
Recent Israeli (and now American) strikes against the Iran nuclear program have stressed the regime, possibly to the breaking point.