Team America, World Police

As usual, Rand Paul can't bring himself to support U.S. force against an enemy ... Like his father, Paul is an isolationist libertarian, and he’s just as opposed to the deployment of the U.S. military as he is to overreach by the EPA or the IRS. [More]

I didn't see a "comments" section so readers who disagree could let the author's readers know why, and in this renewed period of "America, F*** Yeah!" you'll forgive me if I caution a bit of consideration before committing to action. Or you won't.

To categorize a nation as "an enemy" by definition means we are at war with it. I have seen no Article 1, Section 8 declaration.  I never have in my lifetime, and the results speak for themselves.

First, it's hardly "isolationist" to heed:

In Thomas Jefferson’s inaugural address he declared, “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations. Entangling alliances with none.” This was a reaffirmation of George Washington’s policy, also known as “The Washington Doctrine of Unstable Alliances”. Washington, in his farewell address, stated: “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”

If Iran's actions and threats make a declaration of war necessary, let's see the evidence (making sure that it is more reliable than the "yellowcake uranium" scam that facilitated the unending shedding of American blood and treasure in alien lands), and then have our representatives do their duty and vote on it -- and take the personal consequences of getting it right or wrong. That means we also need to take those consequences. We do, after all, morally share in the life and death responsibilities for the actions of those we empower.

If the verdict is war, then prosecute it with all necessary ruthlessness and expediency -- abroad and at home -- to break the enemy's will and extract his unconditional surrender.