Thanks for the ref, Willow....
WSJ may be interpreting what the Navy troop is saying, or both have to look back a bit.
The regime of interest will not change their goals due to more economic pressure, and has demonstrated this for 50 years. Signed agreements have pacified the international community that still believes in "peace in our time", and the regime suceeded in giving the zealots more time and even $$$ to help develop their bomb - witness the great agreement signed, mostly, in 2015.../sarc. OH yeah, allowed more $$ and hdwe for Hamas and Hezbollah for their acts of love and peaceful neighbor cooperation....still laughing....
Not gonna keep repeating, but my position has not changed since I raised the gear as lead of the last flight outta the damned war 51 years ago. In the end, it's up to the people to decide and then do. Saw it for ten years and lost many friends and students, both U.S. and Vee. And my country saw it 250 years ago, despite some "help" from two European adversaries of our motherland.
So best we outsiders can do is make it harder for an oppresive regime to exert their will on the "oppressed" and let the "oppressed" do it for themselves. Can't resist, but in a tribute to the right to bear arms, our success back then and again in 1812 was helped immensely by militia folks not trained to be soldiers, but were very good with their weapons when the time came. And I also point out that on the riverbank south of New Orleans in January 1815 a ragtag bunch of pirates, free men of color, ill-trained rebels, militia from Tennesee/Kentucky and Choctaw indians defeated a pretty fiercesome British force, ending that war. Then dallied in real estate business rebuilding the Whitehouse( as the King pointed out a few weeks ago, he heh).
Bottom line is that the country requires a regime change to some form of government resembling their neighbors' and it does not need to resemble any so-called democracy. The people should enjoy the gifts they have been provided on this Earth that were not given/allowed/permitted from other nations. And be good neighbors as much as possible.
Gums sends....
gonna be a rough week, wanna bet?