Thomas Millington has a piece up today at National Interest Online about how to tame Tehran. Democrats, echoing the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, have been pushing for engagement with Tehran, with the aim of convincing that regime to use its influence in Iraq in a more constructive way. Millington’s recommendations seem to go far beyond anything the Baker commission, or Congressional Democrats, have so far supported. Among them, Millington says:
I’m hard pressed to think of a more counterproductive approach either to quelling the violence in Iraq or “taming Tehran.” Invite Iranian troops into Iraq? And when would they leave? And how long until Iranian and American soldiers end up squaring off over some minor disagreement? It seems inevitable that such an arrangement would lead to a shooting war between American and Iranian soldiers in Iraq, which would quickly spread across the border. This is a spectacularly bad idea . . . or maybe not.
