What Are We Prepared To Do?

 From AND Magazine:

The Untouchables is a highly fictionalized film about Eliot Ness and his “Untouchables” and their part in bringing down Al Capone. During the film there is a memorable scene in which a tough old Irish beat cop, Sean Connery, schools Ness, played by Kevin Costner, on what it will take to bring down Capone. During that scene, Connery famously asks Ness, “What are you prepared to do?” to bring down Capone and then adds, “If he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.”

It’s wonderful if historically inaccurate theater. It’s also great advice in dealing with the ayatollahs.

The men who run Iran do not care about public opinion. They do not care about world opinion. They have no interest in dialogue or negotiation other than as a delaying tactic. They are on the right side of history. The Mahdi is coming. The end is near, and on the other side of Armageddon, they will rule.

Unless we are willing to submit to their control, we have two options. We can do our best to isolate revolutionary Iran, limit the damage it can do, and hope it ultimately collapses of its own weight. Or, we can actively work to crush the regime and give Iran back to the Iranian people.

Which brings us back to Connery and his question. “What are you prepared to do?” If regime change is the goal, then how are we going to achieve it? (Read more.)