I have been watching the news and online content covering the war with Iran. I have seen hundreds of different opinions about it running the gamut from “Let’s finally finish this long war once and for all!” to “Trump has gotten us into another forever war and attacked Iran for no reason!”
I will admit that my own opinion leans more towards the former and not the latter.
I remember when Iran fell to the Islamists with the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the exile of the Shah of Iran. I remember when the new Islamic Republic of Iran committed an act of war against the US by invading the US Embassy in 1979 and taking a number of embassy personnel hostage, holding them for 444 days. (That hostage situation ended the day Ronald Reagon took office because the Iranian regime understood that Reagan was nothing like Jimmy Carter.)
Iran has supported terrorism across the world, has attacked its neighbors, has killed thousands of Americans directly and indirectly, killed thousands in the Middle East directly and indirectly. It has also killed thousands upon thousands of its own citizens, with approximately 40,000 killed by the regime recently because they had the temerity to protest against the theocratic government that has been a thorn in the side of the world for almost 50 years. It is a brutal dictatorship with one thing on its mind – nuke Israel and the US in the name of Allah and to kill anyone who disagrees with the regime, including other Muslims.
This tacit war with Iran has been going on since 1979 and I know I would be just fine with bringing it to and end by ending the power of mullahs and returning it to the people of Iran.
Do I think our present hostilities against Iran is a bad idea or illegal or immoral?
No. It is long overdue.
Is the war causing economic disruptions around the world? Of course. I would expect any such action to do just that. But what be would the economic effects of a nuclear weapon detonating in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem or New York or Washington? Mind you, if something like that did happen, I would expect Tehran, Qom, and a number of other Iranian cities and military bases and installations to suffer the same fate.
Is that something I want? Don’t be silly. Almost no one wants that.
I would like to see the war against Iran to succeed, to depose the mullahs, eliminate the IRGC and basij, and return Iran back into a civilized nation.
