ALJAZEERA: “the critics [of war against Iran] are making a different error: **They are treating the costs of action as if the costs of inaction were zero. They were not.** They were measured in the slow accretion of a threat that, left unchecked, would have produced exactly the crisis everyone claims to fear: a nuclear-armed Iran capable of closing the Strait of Hormuz at will, surrounded by proxy forces that could hold the entire region hostage indefinitely.” The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera