TM writes, as always, with great intelligence. I know he finds my soft-kill arguments hard to take. They require a lot of patience. But remember, it's how we took down the "evil empire" without firing a shot, and we did it all in a brief span of 16 years (1973-1989)!
The soft kill is also clearly working wonders in China, and I think history will judge it hugely instrumental in turning India outward after all those decades of "Hindu rate of growth." The mullahs, which TM worries about so, have already lost the fight for the masses in Iran. We are in the opt-out period much like Brezhnevian USSR, and no, we didn't realize it then either (although a summer in Leningrad in 1985 certainly convinced me of it).
Here's his good post on the subject: Hard Kill v Soft Kill in Iran.
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