Almost daily Corner bashing

Here you can read Noah Pollak bemoaning the inconvenient fact that Iranian oil belongs... to Iran. A corollary to the idea that a nation's resources are its resources, of course, is that they can wield those resources as a form of soft strategic power--a corollary that, unfortunately, cuts against the notion that America should just hegemonize the entire region.

So we should stick to our cobbled-together menu of policies in the Persian Gulf that've thusfar worked out so well for everybody. And, if Iran can't be allowed to counter American influence with influence of its own, then its nuclear program must be bombed out of existence:

I am not a military analyst and do not have access to the relevant intelligence, but from what I've read it seems clear that our armed forces should be able to end the Iranian nuclear program without a full-scale ground invasion and occupation.

Indeed, the military analysts who share these crazy views about how America ought to conduct itself in the world do seem to think bombing Iran would be an easy, and productive, way to go. But if you ask dispassionate military analysts, like retired Air Force (yes, Air Force) Col. Sam Gardiner, or actual leaders of the armed forces, like Centcom commander Admiral William Fallon, (or, for that matter, anybody who cares about the consequences of our strategic decisions in the region) whether this would be either easy or productive, they, obviously, say no.