Maximum pressure on Iran is driving us toward war

We have been in a proxy war with Tehran since November 4, 1979.

From the article...

"A hardline approach from Washington has been met with an equally hardline approach from a Tehran desperate to show it will not be bullied into submission. Escalation is met with escalation. Maximum pressure on Iran is driving us toward war, not toward a mutually agreeable diplomatic deal and certainly not toward peace."

A page from the communists' playbook. As the regime tightens control, it further disaffects the populace, eventually producing the populaces' overwhelming desire to do away with the existing government. To quote Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence...

"...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." It seems to me that the Iranian people are likely to be more receptive to a new regime if they got rid of the old one, not us.

Our ability to weather any escalation greatly outweighs Tehran's, and should they want a shooting war instead of a proxy war, we can ruin them without ever placing a boot on the ground.

Maximum pressure is exactly the course of action that will rid the world of this rogue state. Best we do it BEFORE they acquire nuclear weapons.

So, do you believe, as the article implies, that there has been no provocations by Iran since taking Americans hostage for a year? I’ll stick with the Orange guy, yo can have the Iranian side.