We're not talking about Venezuela here. We're talking about a regime so absolutely determined to hold onto power that in the nearly decade long war with Iraq, the mullahs sent literally tens of thousands of children -- children! -- to certain death on the front lines, as part of endless, pointless, murderous "human wave" attacks. Many of them were drugged, all of them were promised entrance to Paradise if they died for Khomeini.

You think these very same mullahs are going to simply surrender because of air strikes? Not a chance. Unless we're willing to plunge into a ground war that will make Iraq look like Panama, we're not changing this regime anytime soon.