Trump’s Answer to the Establishment’s Endless Wars: Short Conflicts with Minimal Casualties and Actual Victories
Iran has been a thorn in the side of every American administration since the revolution of 1979. Whether the crisis was the hostages being held at the US embassy, the attack by Hezbollah on American military troops in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 US military personnel, or the more recent murder of hundreds of US marines in Iran by improvised explosive devices designed in Iran, the Iranian government has been a constant threat to Americans for nearly 50 years. When Obama and later Biden negotiated an agreement with the brutal, disgusting Iranian regime, that accord was never going to succeed, because they trusted a dishonest and vile government.
After Trump withdrew from the poorly negotiated Iran nuclear deal, some form of military action became all but inevitable because the administration acknowledged that there was not a diplomatic answer to the Iranian government’s nuclear ambitions. This led to the first strike by the President on Iran’s nuclear program, and then the subsequent and current ongoing military strikes referred to as Operation Epic Fury. There has been a clear political divide in the US and amongst a part of MAGA’s base over the Iranian operation, and whether or not this military effort will succeed.
The same people who claimed Trump was running out of options in Venezuela are now the ones saying that the President’s actions in Iran will not succeed, and the reality is that the US is again very well positioned to depose the Iranian regime and replace the disgusting government in the country with a pro-Western nation. Iran is a very different country from Iraq, where George W. Bush’s military invasion and military occupation of the nation had very mixed results. Nearly 65 percent of the Iranian people identify as not being very religious, most of the country is pro-Western, and, unlike Iraq, Iran is a mostly Shia nation. Iraq had a history of conflict between the Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish groups, the Iranian nation is much more homogenous ethnically and religiously. The likelihood of the people of Iran picking an anti-Western government or the country devolving into a civil war is minimal.
Iran’s economy has also been crippled over the last decade. The corrupt and brutal current regime has faced severe sanctions, and oil prices have fallen significantly in the last several years as well. The people of this Persian country had already risen up against the government prior to the US military action. Trump’s strike prevented the mass slaughter of Iranians by the Supreme Leader, in addition to now giving the Iranian people a legitimate chance at the freedom most in the country have desired for nearly 5 decades. The US attack has also been carried out successfully with minimal loss of life.
The reality is that Iran’s military has been crippled by the sanctions and recent bombing by the US and Israel. America has destroyed most of what little was left of the country’s Navy as well. While obviously the country has paramilitary forces that have been used to put down domestic rebellions, the US has nearly completely decimated Iran’s military without any significant casualties. When Trump came into power, one of his key pledges with America First was to not engage in endless wars, and while the conflict in Iran will obviously be far more complicated than what was seen in Venezuela, the President should again be able to achieve the administration’s critically important goals of displacing the Iranian regime without major loss of life. While the American people saw minimal benefits from the long and expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that involved significant loss of life, Trump operations in Venezuela and Iran should be able to eliminate significant threats to the US in a much shorter period of time without the enormous human toll or financial cost.
