When we posted on the revelations by a US intelligence officer that Iran’s IRGC Al Quds force was using Hezbollah cadres to train Iraqi Shia insurgents at a camp near Tehran, the question naturally came into our minds, when was someone going to suggest the obvious: bombing the camps? That’s exactly what former US UN Ambassador John Bolton has suggested in this U.K. Telegraph article. Bolton notes:

“This is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing to do,” he said. “Then the ball would be in Iran’s court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.”

Mr Bolton, an influential former member of President George W Bush’s inner circle, dismissed as “dead wrong” reported British intelligence conclusions that the US military had overstated the support that Iran was providing to Iraqi fighters.

Bolton is one of the few in Washington who knows how relentless the Iranians and their proxies Hezbollah and Hamas are in fomenting Islamist hate and insurgency in Lebanon, Iraq and Israel. Bolton also warned that Syria was building nuclear reactors and a formidable CBW capability as far back as 2002. Yet, the ’shadow warriors” in our State Department and CIA sabotaged his Cassandra-like calls for vigilance.