Israel Shouldn’t Wait to Attack Iran

While Israel has already done significant damage to the Houthis’ military assets, and the civilian infrastructure that undergirds their power, it is not clear that continued attacks of this kind will deter these Iran-backed jihadists from firing missiles at Israeli cities or at ships passing through the Red Sea. The only option that remains, then, would be to take the fight directly to Iran. Something similar can be said about Hizballah’s attempts to rebuild in Lebanon. Now that Syria has fallen, Seth Cropsey argues that Jerusalem shouldn’t wait to strike the Islamic Republic: