The 'Blogfather' speaks. Via Crooked Timber:

This has been obvious for a long time anyway, and I don't understand why the Bush Administration has been so slow to respond. Nor do I think that high-profile diplomacy, or an invasion, is an appropriate response. We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs' expat business interests out of business, etc. Basically, stepping on the Iranians' toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq. And we should have been doing this since the summer 2003. But as far as I can tell, we've done nothing along these lines.

Majikthise:

That's right, an American law professor is saying that the United States should have started an extra-judicial assassination campaign three years ago. Hugh Hewitt thinks it's a swell idea to "punish" Iranians-at-large for IEDs Iraq by knocking off some clerics and atomic physicists who have nothing to do with munitions.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised. If you accept that United States may kidnap anyone, anywhere in the world and have them tortured in the name of counter-terrorism, it's not such a stretch to suppose that U.S. is also entitled to murder civilians to put pressure on unfriendly governments. Unfortunately, that practice is better known as "terrorism."

The ManBoobed Blogger sticks his sweaty nipples in:

Glenn will no doubt attract virtual bricks from the usual suspects, but he goes right to the heart of the problem. If we know that Iran is killing American soldiers, if we don't punish that action is some way, the killing will not only continue, it will increase.

Confederate Yankee, meanwhile is worried about the proliferartion of guns. But not in the US, of course (there are over 50 million guns legally held in Texas alone)...

Field & Stream had a nice write up about the growing number of American shooters who use rifles of this caliber and design for long-range marksmanship competitions and hunting. Today's article in the U.K. Telegraph is far more disturbing. It seems that Iran purchased 800 of the Steyr HS50 rifles pictured above in 2006, and to date, more than 100 have been captured in Iraq.

Jeff Goldstein doesn't support Reynolds, but not because he agrees with Lincoln:

'The law of war does not allow proclaiming either an individual belonging to the hostile army, or a citizen, or a subject of the hostile government, an outlaw, who may be slain without trial by any captor, any more than the modern law of peace allows such international outlawry; on the contrary, it abhors such outrage. The sternest retaliation should follow the murder committed in consequence of such proclamation, made by whatever authority. Civilized nations look with horror upon offers of rewards for the assassination of enemies as relapses into barbarism.'
From Glenn Greenwald: This first Order on assassinations was issued by Abraham Lincoln (General Order 100) in the midst of the Civil War

But for more pragmatic reasons:

Now, I don’t happen to agree with Reynolds on this. But that doesn’t mean I find the suggestion irrational or repugnant—just, from a contemporary political standpoint, unworkable.

Let's leave the final word to the oxymoronic 'Discerning Texan':

I wish I could find much to argue with in Glenn Reynolds' suggestion for how we ought to be addressing Iran's murder of American troops. But you know what--I think he is onto something. We are at War with stateless (sic) monsters. Supposedly. But you know and I know that Iran is no innocent bystander--they are killing our sons and daughters every day.

The majority of the American people have no desire to live any longer under Bush's brain-dead presidency. So a nicely placed bullet here and there might be just the spark that the people of America needs to toss the rest of these holier-than-thou murderers out on their collective behinds.

Did he really say that? Well, no he didn't. He said this:

The majority of the Iranian people have no desire to live any longer under the Mullahs' iron fist. So a nicely placed bullet here and there might be just the spark that the people of Iran need to toss the rest of these holier-than-thou murderers out on their collective behinds.