"The Iran war must end with a decisive victory. And that victory can only be achieved in one of two ways..."

"Either Iran capitulates or the U.S. launches a final flurry of military strikes. Trump has given the regime every opportunity to sue for peace, and it has rejected his overtures. It is admirable that Trump is taking his time. He understands that what he is doing is important and cannot be rushed. But it is also true that he cannot declare victory until either Iran cries uncle — or he finishes the job."

Writes Marc A. Thiessen in "Trump is 14 days from decisive victory in Iran/The regime won’t deal and the blockade alone won't break it. Only military action will" (WaPo).

ADDED: Elsewhere in WaPo, there's "What will happen when the clock strikes 60 days on Trump’s war/Clinton's precedent will allow Trump to keep fighting Iran without congressional approval."

That's by Stephen Rademaker, "a senior counsel at the law firm Covington & Burling, was an assistant U.S. secretary of state from 2002 to 2006."

The 60-day mark is tomorrow, but:

Every president since the resolution’s enactment in 1973 has considered its “60-day clock” unconstitutional, and no president has conceded that he was bound by it. Meanwhile, a clear pattern has emerged in Congress when presidents disregard the clock: Members of the opposing political party solemnly accuse those presidents of lawlessness, while most members of the president’s own party look the other way....

So how have presidents from both parties justified using force overseas for more than 60 days in instances where the clear language of the War Powers Resolution forbids it?

The Clinton administration clearly spelled out the rationale in 1993 when its military deployment in Somalia morphed from a peacekeeping mission into an operation aimed at suppressing rogue militias and hunting down warlords.... [T]he contention was that as soon as the shooting stopped, the clock reset, only to be started and then reset again the next time shooting broke out for a limited period of time. Using this rationale, the Clinton administration continued the deployment of combat forces in Somalia from the outbreak of hostilities there on June 5, 1993, until the final withdrawal on March 25, 1994 — a total of 293 days....

Variations of this analysis were relied on by Clinton again for his 78-day Kosovo conflict in 1999, as well as by President Barack Obama for his 226-day aerial campaign in Libya in 2011....

Trump should have little trouble relying on these precedents to argue that his war against Iran need not abide by the 60-day clock. Combat against Iran truly has been intermittent, given the ceasefire that Trump announced on April 7 — 38 days after the war began....