Today on his program, Sean Hannity allowed that [other countries] don’t get involved in the killing of American troops without facing severe consequences. Well, I guess that in these times, they do.

It has been established, beyond question, that Iran has been complicit in the killing of U.S. service members by providing materiel, expertise and personnel.

Leave aside, for the moment, that Iran has been acting against American interests for nigh on 30 years now. Leave aside involvement in the massacre of sleeping marines in Beirut and the bombing of the Khobar Towers. Leave aside Iran’s active effort to thwart U.S. will in Iraq. The harsh reality is that Iran is today involved in the killing of American troops. The harsher reality is that we do absolutely nothing in response.

This administration may lack the will to take action against Iran to prevent their acquiring nuclear weapons—this loss of will due in no small part to the Left and the media so utterly politicizing the war; but one is staggered to conclude that it apparently lacks the spine to defend our troops. If a decapitation strike of the Iranian regime is not in the cards, or assaults on their nuclear sites, can we not at least muster the nerve to attack Basij or Revolutionary Guard units in their staging areas?

There is talk of low morale in some Army and Marine units serving in Iraq. The American warrior is able to tolerate a lot: combat, long deployments, harsh living conditions, fatigue, serving in a thankless task. What they cannot tolerate is seeing their comrades killed pointlessly and with no reprisal. And this war will be pointless if, at some point, the administration does not begin treating it as the regional conflict that it is.

And, as far as reprisal, our troops know that they are being killed by IED’s and other sophisticated weaponry that is coming from Iran. The nobility of our fighting men and women, the rightness of our cause, and the decency of our people require that we exact justice for the killing of our finest, let alone deter others from reasoning that U.S. troops are low-risk targets.

The continuation of the status quo, while unconscionable, is, sadly, thoroughly believable.

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