Yes, The Iran Strikes Are Worth Celebrating

I support President Trump’s strikes on Iran for a few reasons.

First, Iran should have been dealt with decisively when they took American hostages in 1979 but America was too weak and the leadership to feckless and afraid. Iran is not a new American problem, just one delayed by 47 years and the post revolution policies of isolation and appeasement have not worked. Iran has continued to be the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, spreading unrest across the middle east. Since Iran is a Russian proxy, it is interesting to watch the “War with Russia” crowd argue against these strikes (Trump is waging a silent war with Russia and China, cutting off oil from Venezuela and now Iran).

Second, Trump has noted these strikes are limited and are the help he promised to the Iranian people who should now take back their own country. None of us want more “forever wars” that were more stealth wealth transfers from America to our own enemies, but Trump’s Patton like actions of hitting hard to convince our enemies that we mean business (and we have tech they cannot stop) will bear fruit. As Rush used to say, the job of a military is to kill people and break things. I would add that the goal of a military is to create enough devastation that a defeat is known by the enemy to be a defeat, not a path to decades and trillions of American aid. 

Third, this is a strike at the Islamic cancer growing within that religion. Islam is not a religion, per se, it is a culture, one that simultaneously believes it is the dominant culture in the world and at the same time, it is incredibly self-conscious, insecure and frustrated about how inferior and weak it is militarily. This makes Iran an powder keg that, like a game of hot potato, will eventually go off in someone’s hands. Coddling them as if they are to be feared has emboldened them. 

Lastly, the world has always expected America to be a global police force, but has hated us for it. They have become as crime-friendly as a Soros-funded District Attorney and under their regime, the world looks more like a Manhattan or Philadelphia, streeting thugs and then criticizing law enforcement for arresting them. 

Trump is trying to instill some respect for peaceful order.

Trump is doing the job the UN refuses to do and since the UK and most of the EU are so Islamized, they won’t help for fear of unrest in their own countries. I get his goal. It is a stable, peaceful world where trade can create a prosperity that can pull people out of poverty and into freedom. 

Is that American’s job? Not really, but when nobody else is doing what needs to be done, somebody has to do it before it is too late to reverse the damage. 

That may be the wrong state of mind, but personally, I am tired of all the attrition and collateral damage we have suffered for decades. If a problem must be solved, it is better to solve it and move on rather than to ignore it and continue to suffer. 

Sometimes it takes resolute and intense violence to create lasting peace.