More from the cited OpEd...

... "We don't see anyone who can replace the regime," an Israeli official told David Ignatius. The New York Times reported, "A report by the National Intelligence Council completed before the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran assessed that even a large-scale military assault on the country would be unlikely to topple its theocratic government."

So, when Donald Trump declares his end-goal is regime change, that he wants "unconditional surrender," and/or wants to pick the next Supreme Leader, he is actually telling us he wants a war without end.

His delusions of grandeur and compulsion to dominate others inevitably overwhelm the Constitution, decency, political good sense, and Americans' distress. ...