By Douglas V. Gibbs
Despite the mainstream media’s propaganda a majority of Americans (51%) support President Trump’s military action, Operation Epic Fury against the Islamic regime in Iran, and according to a recent poll among Republicans 83% of likely Republican voters “strongly” or “somewhat” supports the military action. MAGA Republicans are at an even higher percentage, approving of the President 100%.
President Trump has removed from power the evil regime running Iran for 47 years, and now some kind of skeletal remains grasps at what little fragment of levers it has, now. While the ruling class has been weakened, and Iran’s military is all but obliterated, the question is, can we now make sure the government of Iran becomes one that acts responsibly rather than seek nuclear weapons in the hopes of bringing about an apocalyptic 12th-Imam scenario prophecied to bring about the final worldwide Islamic caliphate?
The term “regime change” has been thrown around a lot. The leftist media and its social media allies have been bombarding us with information and opinions that go straight to the negative, trying to make comparisons to Iraq and Afghanistan, and trying to convince you that we are somehow losing this war. They claim President Trump is an idiot, a liar, or both.
America and Israel have accomplished an unparalleled achivement with a victory so complete that there has never been anything in history that could compare (save for President Jefferson and Madison and their handling of the Barbary Pirates). Within days the leadership was dead or hiding, and their allegedly advanced military is currently in shambles. The air defense system is gone, the Iranian navy is all but gone, and their ability to strike with missiles has been reduced to a point that is just about laughable. The remnants of the flailing regime is now down to using drones, and eventually that will be nullified as well.
Iran’s only allegedly successful buffoonish action, if you can call it a success at all, has been essentially closing the Strait of Hormuz… but that won’t last.
War is diplomacy by another means, and unfortunately the Iranian religious extremist government thumbed their noses at any other kind of diplomacy. So, the Trump adminstration set out to eliminate the nuclear threat, eliminate its ballistic capabilities, and change the regime to one that will work with America and no longer act as a threat in the Middle East. What that means is that the new regime must abandon their Islamist ways.
President Trump, I believe, understands this. I am amazed at the fact that he sees things way beyond what most see. He’s the best ally Israel has had in my lifetime, he understands military strategy in ways that even military lifers often fail to, and he sees the dangers of Islam more deeply than anyone else in the room. He recognizes the threat Islam poses to the United States and the world, especially in the hands of fanatics in Iran, and that is why the President is making sure that the end doesn’t arrive prematurely and the Islamist factions in Iran are completely eliminated. America First includes getting rid of the forever wars the establishment uses to pad their pockets, yet also understanding that sometimes war is necessary to stop the worst from happening. The might of the stars and stripes is indeed the best solution when the world is threatened by a bunch of radical murderers, and sometimes the only negotiation tool remaining in one’s diplomatic pouch is a one-two punch in the mouth of the enemy.
Winning, however, is something the opposition can’t stomach because they’ve invested on America being just another country in some socialist utopia of worldwide mediocrity. It angers them that the current President has the stainless steel marbles to achieve what is necessary, and does so as he waves the American Flag and proclaims American know-how. Communist regimes in Venezuela and Cuba are crumbling, the world is changing, Islam is nervous, China has been limited to a small list of strategic options, and the world recognizes that daddy is in the White House… and the left cannot stand it.
Winning, after all, makes enemies of losers.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
