{"id":21563,"date":"2026-02-20T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21563"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:55:30","slug":"should-we-bomb-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21563","title":{"rendered":"Should We Bomb Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iran is an evil regime and has been evil and aggressive toward the US and its friends for a long time. But, regime change without a land invasion will require a sustained effort that includes cooperating with groups on the ground, and it&#8217;s not clear the Trump administration has the strategy to succeed&nbsp;in such an effort.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Should We Bomb Iran?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ee4q0GpdBNg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is an evil regime and has been evil and aggressive toward the US and its friends for a long time. But, regime change without a land invasion will require a sustained effort that includes cooperating with groups on the ground, and it&#8217;s not clear the Trump administration has the strategy to succeed in such an effort. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ee4q0GpdBNg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,272,355,314,156,170,619],"class_list":["post-21563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21564,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563\/revisions\/21564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}