There have been a lot of hand wringing Leftists, writing in their Leftist newspapers and on social media, that the killing of Qasem Soleimani was an act of war against Iran, that we provoked them into greater violence, and we will face the consequences with more deaths of Americans for it.
I must agree with them.
That said, Iran has been trying to goad us into war for years. They believe that we are the Great Satan (and Israel is the Little Satan) and they want to kill Americans in order to immanentize the Shia Islam eschaton.
That is why, despite the fact that Iran and Iraq fought a war for eight years, Iranians were happy to jump into Iraq to fight Americans. Any opportunity to kill Americans they will take.
So…
We need to make Iran stop attacking us and arming proxies to attack us.
We also don’t want to start a ground war with Iran and it’s half-million man sized army.
Fortunately for the United States, two Jews figured out a solution to this conundrum back in 1951.
Doctors Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam discovered that the radiation pressure of thermal x-rays generated by the fission of Uranium-235 could be used to compress heavy hydrogen isotopes, in the form of tritium gas and lithium deuteride, into a fusion reaction forming helium.
The current generation of this technology is known as the W-88 with a standard yield of 475 kt.
A current-generation Trident II missile can deliver eight of these on target from a range of 7,500 miles.
We could quite effectively defeat the Iranian military without having to put one pair of American boots on the ground for the Iranians to kill in an act of Jihad.
I know this might not fit the worldview of our national security “experts” in their think tanks and ivory towers, but it’s an option.
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