By Roger L Simon
No matter what President Trump floats in the moment, compromise with the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran can never work—and he surely knows it.
Their guiding principles are the violent world-supremacist Shiism of the original Ayatollah or the yet more ruthless violence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, colluding with the murderous Latin American cartels and Hezbollah, not to mention China and North Korea, to dominate the international drug and human trafficking trades… or some weird, sick combination of the two.
Whatever it is, it has led to a regime that shoots unarmed protestors not only in the streets, but in their hospital beds. While screaming that the US may have accidentally hit a school with a missile, they fire directly at civilians in about a half-dozen countries, some of which were supposed allies.
Such people cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons under any circumstances. The results would be horrifying. They would become, for all intents and purposes, invincible purveyors of world blackmail.
Nuclear installations of various sorts are currently being degraded all across Iran, pretty much with impunity. Good, and may it continue.
Unfortunately, that is not nearly enough.
The US and the Israelis can knock out most or all of them for now, along with the majority or even all of their nuclear scientists, but this does not prevent the regime from reconstituting its program within years, even within weeks.
The technology is not remotely new. Nuclear weapons are almost 81 years old. The first atomic bomb was tested in July 1945, at the Alamogordo Range in New Mexico, with the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki only a month or so later.
Yes, delivery systems are more complicated, but as an additional reminder, the Soviets tested the first-ever ICBMs only a dozen years after the first A-bomb, in August 1957. As things go these days, that’s ancient history.
To think the Islamic Regime would not be back soon for another round is delusional, unless they are totally extinguished.
And yet we are being bombarded by people more interested in their 401(k)s than in the survival of (their and their grandchildren’s) civilization. As I was writing, an email arrived from Robert Guest, the deputy editor of The Economist, who has this to say:
“How much do oil prices matter to American voters? Adam Julch, an enormous former college football star in Nebraska, once explained it to me pithily. It was when global oil prices were soaring before the presidential election in 2008. He had just had to give up his spacious pickup truck and squeeze his bulk into a little Honda Civic. ‘I’m 350 pounds,” he said, ‘I feel like I’m in a clown car.’”
”The war on Iran has already caused the biggest energy-supply shock in history. It is not just about oil; disruption to supplies of natural gas is even worse. Our cover leader argues that the conflict has permanently reshaped fossil-fuel markets. As a result, the world’s economy will be less prosperous, more volatile and harder to govern.”
I’m not going to dignify this cliché corporate propaganda (a Honda? Mon Dieu!) with a response except to say that Donald Trump is no doubt aware of the (obviously exaggerated) spike in oil prices and that the US taking de facto control of the Straits of Hormuz, or a similar solution, would likely lead to the lowest oil prices in recent memory. He’s already proven this to a great extent with Venezuela.
It is people like Mr. Guest who, for their own or their company’s purposes, are busy terrifying the public about the short-term price of oil, all out of proportion to reality.
Similarly, one finds that practically all who identified as liberal or progressive have little or no knowledge of how the Islamic regime actually behaves. Few, in my experience, have even heard of the notorious Evin Prison, where the most extreme tortures, rivaling or even surpassing Mengele’s, particularly of women, have occurred. It is almost a deliberate ignorance because they would prefer not to know about it, are actually afraid and hold their ears, figuratively and sometimes literally.
But their ignorance, willed or otherwise, and, needless to say, the price of oil are not the real issues here. It is basic morality, the rights of man (and very much in this instance woman) and, dare we say it, God’s law. How do we want to live with our fellows in this world? What is to become of the civilization, our civilization, that began in Europe and gave us those rights, starting with the Magna Carta and being carried through by our magnificent Declaration?
Europe has been having trouble defending them, to say the least. As of now, it is only the US. and Israel. Those of us who are Jews, myself included, have been accused of being “Israel First” for our support of the war against the mullahs. That’s ridiculous. Speaking for myself, and I am almost certain for others, if I were “Israel First,” I would live there. I don’t. I voted with my feet. That I have great sympathy for Israel is natural.
But more importantly, Israel is America’s most reliable ally at this time and by far the strongest militarily. Together, they must defend Western Civilization. Whether they can achieve this is unknown, and one thing worries me—that since 1979, too many Iranians brave enough to oppose the mullahs have either fled their country or been killed by their leaders, during this and preceding protests.
Nevertheless, I remain optimistic. There are plenty of freedom-lovers left. We have seen them dancing in the streets. And they have the best ally in President Trump. He is a superb tactician and a fearless leader, a master of misdirection when needed who constantly surprises. Those who whine that he has no strategy or endgame make me laugh. If he had those things, why in the world would he speak them out loud so he could alert the enemy?
Yet the Legacy Media constantly screams for him to do it. In so doing, they clarify the obvious. They are the Enemy Within.
First published in American Refugees
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If Adam Julch is a former football star, I will charitably assume that poundage is all muscle.
If it’s just an enormous fat gut, let me suggest he just lose weight and resume a human form rather than a manateesque one, before complaining about giving up his truck. And I speak as a 230 pounder. I can still ride the bus or in a normal car.