Iran has resumed public executions. One of those the regime hung was a nineteen year old dissident and champion wrestler.

I don't think anyone has a problem with sneakers on the ground in Iran. That would include covert CIA operations.

Something revealing — and increasingly dangerous — shows up in the people who still react to Donald Trump as if he were mainly an offense against etiquette rather than a political fact. They study him the way Victorian naturalists might study a rhinoceros loose in the drawing room: with alarm, fascination, and deep concern for the upholstery.

The Iranian strike has brought it out again. After 47 years, Israel and the United States struck back. Trump moved hard, moved fast, and moved before the foreign-policy clergy finished the first round of throat-clearing. Then, after he acted, he turned and pressed allies and other beneficiaries of Persian Gulf oil to help manage the consequences.

To the establishment mind, that looks like barbarism. First you convene. Then you posture. Then you circulate papers. Then you hold a conference where several men with rimless glasses say "regional framework" and "off-ramp." Only then — after adequate procedural embalming — may anything actually happen.

Trump has never shown much interest in being embalmed.

Mr. Trump has hinted that he might end the bombing campaign and negotiate a deal with the Islamic regime. I hope that is only a rumor.

The Iranian regime should only be ended via executions, not negotiations.