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America needs clear thinking and real resolve, and retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg delivered both on Rob Schmitt Tonight when he laid out a hard-nosed gameplan for defeating the Iranian regime. Kellogg told viewers that U.S. strategy should move beyond targeting nuclear and missile sites and toward measures that produce real political change in Tehran, warning that only a real effort will break the regime’s malign influence.
Kellogg made plain that “regime change” need not mean reckless occupation; he argued for targeted, limited ground actions against strategic nodes while continuing economic pressure to strangle the ayatollahs’ war machine. He named pressure points like Kharg Island and Bandar Abbas as places where focused operations could cripple Tehran’s ability to fund and project terror without sending American forces into a quagmire.
This is the kind of sober, experienced voice America should follow — a man who spent decades defending this country and who understands the difference between pinprick rhetoric and executable military options. Critics who demand endless caution are asking our grandchildren to fight a hungrier, stronger Iran later; Kellogg’s view is the responsible alternative to timidity.
We also shouldn’t ignore Kellogg’s insistence on economic warfare as the other side of the coin: choke off Tehran’s cash flows, deny it oil revenues, and you sap the regime’s power without putting boots on every street corner. That approach — combined with efforts to secure critical shipping lanes like the Strait of Hormuz and to degrade Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities — is how a competent administration turns pressure into victory.
To those who fret about escalation, remember Kellogg’s point: limited, surgical operations aimed at strategic targets are meant to create political outcomes, not endless occupation, and senior officials in Washington have already been expanding options to give the president maximum flexibility. Americans who love freedom should be furious at the idea that weakness or moral relativism will be the U.S. response; we must instead back leaders who will finish the job.
Patriots should heed Kellogg’s counsel and demand that our commanders and policymakers keep pressure, keep targets precise, and keep the objective clear: a safer America with a less dangerous Middle East. This is not warmongering; it is the sober work of defending our homeland and standing with oppressed people in Iran who deserve liberation from a brutal regime.
