By Douglas V. Gibbs
After years of Islam infiltrating regions across the globe, with terrorism on the rise, and the Left sycophantically bowing submissively to Islam, Barack Obama offered Iran a tribute. That’s what the pallet of cash was when the Obama Iran Deal went into place. Those of us who were not neck deep in leftist political swamp-slime understood exactly what was going on. Iran was being paid a massive amount of cash to promise to be nice (similar to protection money paid to gangs) from which they would fund building a nuclear bomb anyway so that they could participate in their apocalyptic vision of a 12th Imam scenario which includes mass death and chaos for the sake of the rise of a prophetic global Islamic caliphate. My friend, Tim “Loki” Kerlin, exclaimed as that time approached that the only way to stop the madness was to eliminate the ideology behind the madness.
A few weeks ago I sat in the backyard of a friend of mine overlooking an incredible view of a massive lake, with mountains in the distance. The friend I was visiting has been a supporter of what I do for many years, assisting in the funding of my radio programming. He was born in Iran, and as a young man he came to the United States in 1982 – three years after the Islamic Revolution that changed Iran from an American ally to a staunch enemy drenched with the blood of Islamic revolutionary rage. Once he was in America he became a Christian, married his college girlfriend, and established a thriving private business. Now, he’s retiring, and as he sat in the chair telling me about his recent heart surgery, the topic changed to Iran.
“Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “I love Trump. But he’s being too soft on Iran. The only way to solve the problem is to kill every member of the Islamic Regime. Every leader. Every one of them.” This is the same man who told me years ago that the Persians hate the Arabs for bringing Islam to Iran. He still has his whole family in Iran, and when he visits, he doesn’t even dare tell his own mother that he became a Christian for fear of being turned in to the authorities.
Japan didn’t surrender during World War II until we dropped two atomic bombs. They didn’t truly become an ally until General Douglas McArthur made sure that their ruling system was dismantled and a free market economic system truly took hold in that country.
Germany didn’t surrender until their country had been leveled, flattened into fields of rubble, and the entire leadership was surrounded in Berlin with no escape.
The reality is when the bad guys are on the march, the only way to stop the infestation of their destructive totalitarian ideology is to eradicate it. And if even a small memory remains, eventually its evil will try to rise again.
Because Bush’s War in Iraq went horribly wrong after it was all over, the term “regime change” has become something to fear as doomed to fail. Just because a dictator is dead, it doesn’t mean the ideology is dead, or that someone just as bad, or worse, may step in and grab the reins. Islam reminds me of progressivism, communism, and the Borg from Star Trek. It’s a system that requires group-think, and the danger will remain until the governing creed of Islam’s authoritarianism disguised as a religion remains intact.
Our sensibilities shudder when we think about it. No human being loves war, or wants to see people killed for any reason. The thought of someone saying, “Kill them all!” is reserved to fictional war stories, our thoughts about mentally damaged minds who have PTSD so badly they can’t see the horror in what they are saying, and Biblical passages we consider to be quite challenging when viewed through the eyes of modern sensibilities. But, the reality is the only way to end the horror is to, for lack of a better way of saying it, completely and thoroughly end the horror. All of it.
The conquest of Canaan under Joshua’s leadership represents one of those challenging moments in history. When Israel entered the Promised Land, God commanded the destruction of the Canaanite peoples, including women, children, and even animals. Joshua 6:21 records: “And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of sword.”
The command was a necessary one, for the Canaanite idolatry was so exceptionally corrupt, involving practices like child sacrifice and ritual prostitution associated with their deities Baal, Moloch, and Astaroth that these practices had corrupted the entire culture to such an extent that God deemed complete destruction necessary.
God had shown patience toward these nations for over 400 years, allowing them time to repent before Israel’s conquest. The destruction served dual purposes: it was both judgment against the Canaanites’ extreme wickedness and protection for Israel from being drawn into these corrupt practices.
The concept of herem (the Hebrew term translated as “utterly destroy”) is central here. This wasn’t merely warfare but a religious act where everything was “devoted to God” – either through destruction or consecration. Israel was meant to be a witness nation to surrounding peoples, demonstrating the character of the one true God. To fulfill this mission, they needed to remain spiritually pure, which required eliminating all corrupting influences.
The failure to completely eliminate the Canaanite influence later proved problematic. The incomplete conquest eventually led to Israel’s spiritual downfall during the period of the Judges, when they were repeatedly drawn into Canaanite religious practices.
In many ways these same battles exist today, placing modern Christians upon a spiritual battlefield against “the spiritual powers of wickedness in the heavenlies” (Ephesians 6:12). Just as Israel needed to completely remove physical threats to maintain spiritual purity, believers must actively eliminate spiritual influences that could compromise their faith. As the old saying goes, “while we may live in the world, we must not be of the world.” As J. Vernon McGee pointed out, if you have one foot on a galloping horse that is of God, and one foot on a galloping horse that is of the world, eventually they will part ways, and you will need to make a decision.
When President Trump talked about the potential of utter destruction of Iran, I believe the threat was sincere because we are dealing with an ideology that believes prophetically it cannot be destroyed and that mass chaos is the recipe to bring about their glorious end-of-the-world scenario that results in the rise of a worldwide caliphate. They believe in the “will of Allah,” so unless you can convince them that it is outside the will of Allah to continue to fight (for the moment) they will not stand down. Fear of utter destruction is pretty much the only thing that will bring them to the negotiating table, and even then they see it as temporary. All they have to do is wait, dig-in, and regroup once the leadership of their enemy changes. Trump’s term will eventually end, and the presence of people who think like him will eventually end. Once they have another Biden or Obama in office, then they can resume their atrocities.
I believe that President Trump understands that stark truth, and that is why recently to the horror of those who hated the Iraq War scenario, and what happened afterward, he used the term “regime change.”
While regime change was a complete disaster in Iraq under Bush, and Libya under Obama, regime change was necessary in Germany, Italy and Japan after World War II. And based on Trump’s assessments, the term “regime change” for Iran is an appropriate way to approach the problem.
With the successful military campaign so far in Iran, the leadership is so up against a wall, they are finally claiming they are willing to negotiate and sign an agreement. They can’t be trusted, their whole ideology is about deception, but for the time-being the deal Trump is presenting will have to do. The good news is that when they try to renege on the deal even a little bit, as long as Trump is in office, there will be an appropriate response.
If we wish for the deal to last beyond Trump, there must be a full and complete regime change. There must be an eradication of the Mullahs’ rule in Iran. The regime must be completely gone. As in the Land of Canaan, if even a small piece of that old hard-line Islamic way of thinking remains, Iran will rise up as a problem again at some point in the future.
It won’t completely eliminate Islam’s sick and twisted ideology spreading as it is, but it could take out some of the bite that Islam has with its number one source of funding for terrorism broken like an obedient stallion.
We must not be fooled, however. Victory is not achieved unless there is a complete and thorough eradication of the ruling ideology. Not merely the removal of some of the rulers who enforce it, or some of the religious leaders who believe in it. All of them – as my friend originally from Iran explained.
As with the complete de-Nazification of Germany after World War II, and the complete change in style of government away from a ruling emperor in Japan with a full injection of a free market system, Iran’s leadership must be completely dismantled, Islam must be removed from any part of the ruling structure, and a purely free market economic system must be instilled in Iran. I am not talking about the Bush Doctrine of “spreading democracy.” I am talking about the eradication of a regime that is harmful not just to the region, and dangerous to the world, but an unconditional surrender that comprehensively dismantles every aspect of the former ruling ideology and the full removal of all of the ruling class. Pull the weed out by the root, with nothing remaining intact, otherwise the root will grow back, and grow even larger than before.
In Iran, the same thorough removal of the former regime is beyond necessary, and to be honest after trials convicting them of atrocities against mankind (that likely won’t happen), these leaders should be executed in a manner similar to the top leaders of the Japanese regime after the war crimes trial that followed their surrender.
History is a clear windowpane to the truth. Be it biblical times or defeating 20th Century totalitarian regimes, to ensure victory and safety from the rise of the regime again at some time in the future, the remedy is completely eradicating the regime, and its ideology.
We are dealing with an ideology in Iran that believes America is the Great Satan, and Israel is the Little Satan. The anti-American fervor of hard-line Islamic religiosity has been the basis of Iran’s ruling class, and it mirrors Nazism in ways most of us don’t even understand. Leaving any of the leadership that believes in that ideology alive and in place in Iran would be a grave mistake. The Iranian regime has been a nationwide system of organized terrorism and has been engaging in war against The West for nearly fifty years. It is a cancer rooted deeply in the Iranian structure. Cutting out most of the cancer does not get rid of the cancer. Believing that the remaining cancer understands it must behave does not eliminate the threat. As long as the
mullahs and their IRGC has any footing whatsoever in Iran the threat remains. The deal must not allow the ideology to remain in place in Iran. The lying and deceiving ideology of the Islamic regime must be eliminated, or it will rise again to be a threat because it doesn’t matter how good the deal is – they don’t honor deals. They know only one thing – death and destruction of anyone who dares to believe differently than they do.
Eradicate all of it. Every last crumb. Otherwise, the war is not over, it is far from over, and Islam will come back in the region more vicious than it was before Trump began bombing them.
And this time, if they do rise again, they will not only be merciless against The West and Israel, but anyone or any country, even their Arab neighbors, who dared to come against them during this current war in the Middle East while soaking the ground with the blood for their own countrymen for daring to protest against them in the first place.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
