Any stalemate in negotiations to end both Iranian aggression in the Strait of Hormuz and their nuclear program should warrant the resumption of the bombing campaign against Iran. Greater destruction of Iran’s infrastructure may be needed to compel its military and political capitulation. 

Before the ceasefire, the hyperbolic rhetoric in vogue among the administration’s critics was that the United States’s bombing operation against Iran, “Operation Epic Fury,” had crossed, or was about to cross, a legal line into “war crimes.” What this assertion belies is an appeasement ideology masquerading as sanctimonious condemnation.