Newt Gingrich suggests that Iran’s defiance means the war is not over. He writes in The New York Sun:
The war with Iran is not over. Despite an amazing Israeli and American air campaign, the Iranian theocratic dictatorship’s efforts to threaten Israel and the region have only been delayed and made more difficult. Iran remains defiant and hostile.
Indeed, Iran has thrown out the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspectors, signaling that the regime will resume its nuclear weapon efforts.
Many analysts seem to be surprised at Iran’s intransigence after being so soundly bested. Iran’s determination simply goes against the modern, elite peacetime understanding of how reasonable adversaries behave.
This isn’t new. In 1972, David Halberstam’s extraordinary book, “The Best and the Brightest,” described how the accomplished Ivy League minds of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations failed to comprehend North Vietnam’s determination. The Viet Cong was willing to accept unimaginable casualties and damage to achieve its aims — and the West didn’t get it.
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