(Wall Street Journal) Gerard Baker - The U.S. strikes on the nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan seem not only defensible but urgent and necessary. No one seriously doubts the Iran nuclear threat. We can quibble about the pace at which the mullahs are pursuing the capability. But while they might have disguised their progress, the evidence is clear that nuclear capability is a line they plan to cross in a way that would change U.S. security interests forever. Iran has been in a direct and proxy war with us for years. The near-impunity with which the regime in Tehran has been able to kill Americans in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere has been a dangerous demonstration of American weakness. Most of the retaliatory capabilities Iran has nurtured as a deterrent to any attack against it have been neutralized or compromised by Israel's astonishingly brave and successful operations. Far from America now going to war at Benjamin Netanyahu's demand, as some say, the U.S. is entering a fight in our national interest in which our ally has already done almost all the heavy lifting and made almost all the sacrifices.
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