Reasons for optimism in the U.S.-Israeli campaign in Iran

National commentary about the U.S.-Israeli campaign in Iran has generally been anything but jingoistic.

"I'm flabbergasted by the relentless pessimism I'm seeing in much of the commentariat," wrote Bret Stephens in The New York Times on March 12. "We are less than two weeks into a war that will almost surely be over by the end of the month and already there are predictions that it's 'another Iraq.'"

In a March 13 Wall Street Journal newsletter, Matthew Hennessey similarly observed that American journalists writing about the war currently "flood the zone with negative coverage: unflattering stories, tales of waste, hints of stupidity, insinuations of corruption, accusations of ineptitude, warnings of impending doom...