Commentary Magazine   From 2007: Norman Podhoretz’s “The Case
for Bombing Iran”  Norman Podhoretz, who has been writing for
Commentary since 1953, has an op-ed today in the Wall Street
Journal called “Strike Iran Now to Avert Disaster Later.” The
piece, which is already much discussed, reminded us here that
we, and he, first discussed this topic at length in June
2007—six and a half years ago. The article in question was
called “The Case for Bombing Iran.” We reprint it below.   The
Case for Bombing Iran—June 2007  Although many persist in
denying it, I continue to believe that what September 11, 2001
did was to plunge us headlong into nothing less than another
world war. I call this new war World War IV, because I also
believe that what is generally known as the cold war was
actually World War III, and that this one bears a closer
resemblance to that great conflict than it does to World War II.
Like the cold war, as the military historian Eliot Cohen was the
first to recognize, the one we are now in has ideo