According to a famous Cornish proverb, “He who will not be ruled by the rudder, must be ruled by the rock.” See: Proverbs 22:3).
For the last four decades, the world seemed to be helplessly crashing straight into the abyss of a nuclear armed Iran; all we could do was watch it happening in real time as if we were on the Titanic or Lusitania.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates that Iran was just weeks away from enriching enough uranium to produce nuclear weapons.
Iran had enough material to build ten nuclear warheads, reports indicate.
A regime that murders young ladies for not properly affixing their hijab, and who vows to literally wipe the United States and Israel off the map, was about to make nuclear missiles.
There was nothing we could do about it; we would just have to accept it and live in daily fear of a nuclear Armageddon rendering the Cold War seem like a pleasant memory.
This is the same type of cowardly, pitiable, pathetic and spineless mindset that allowed Adolf Hitler to nearly destroy the world.
Millions of people died because bureaucrats and technocrats thought they understood what Hitler really wanted.
Others just thought and hoped he’d go away if we were nicer to him.
When it comes to the barbaric murderous mullahs of Iran, hope can never replace a strategic plan.
Diplomacy with Iran’s regime has been getting Americans killed for almost five decades.
President Ronald Reagan exercised enormous restraint when Iran’s agents launched a terrorist attack and massacred 241 American Service Members, part of the Multinational Force, on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, on Oct. 23, 1983.
A month before the horrific attack against our peacekeepers, Iranian backed terrorists detonated a bomb at the American embassy in Beirut killing 69 people including 17 Americans; an additional 80 were wounded.
We didn’t attack Iran after the Beirut embassy or Lebanon barracks bombings.
In 1984, while American diplomats were still giving peace a chance, the Iranian regime organized the tragic kidnapping, torture and execution of US Station Chief William Buckley.
Five years later, their terrorist proxies kidnapped and executed U.S. Marine Colonel William Higgins. At the time, he was leading a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon,
The mullahs in Iran are responsible for the Khobar Tower bombings, the bombings of U.S. Embassies in East Africa, the bombing of the USS Cole which killed 17 U.S. sailors and injured another 37.
Iran backed militias killed 603 Americans in Iraq.
The list of despicable attacks against Americans by Iran needs to be addressed separately; this is a long and excruciatingly painful history to review, if not relive.
During the conflict with Iran, our nation must decide if we’re going to accept the reality of what the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir so congenially observed, “You cannot negotiate peace with someone who has come to kill you.”
For anyone still questioning the depravity of the Iranian regime, consider the gruesome incident where Iranian forces stormed the home of nurse Saleheh Akbari for treating injured protesters.
As they were savagely beating her husband, they shot her in the heart when she tried to help him. They desecrated her lifeless body, and sent her husband the pictures as a warning; Ahmad Khodaei killed himself after viewing the photos.
Iran’s mullahs machine gunned to death approximately 42,000 Iranians for protesting against their government. Violinist Sanam Pourbabaei, 26, was shot and killed while demonstrating. The regime insisted on ransoming her body to her parents.
Aside from slaughtering innocent civilians in public, this regime is proud of having a loophole that forces 10-year-old girls into marriage.
How do woke “progressives” feel about ignoring nuclear bombs from a country notorious for raping virgin females before they are executed because they think it prevents them from going to heaven?
The lunatic left and their contemporaries on social media may accuse this writer of making an emotional appeal to the public, instead of assessing the actual threat posed to our nation.
The Gulf Cooperation Council including 12 Arab countries have characterized Iranian aggression as a threat to global security.
Indeed, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman likened the Iranian government to the Nazi regime, and he didn’t make this comparison yesterday, last month, or last year; the prince warned us nine years ago.
America First doesn’t mean shirking from history’s formidable challenges and provocations by letting evil advance.
America didn’t become great by backing down against sadistic war machines — or by trying to bribe, or appease them.
This writer has yet to hear one coherent let alone cogent explanation for how Iran was to be realistically prevented from making nuclear missiles within the next few months absent military intervention.
Support for President Donald Trump in his quest to liberate the people of Iran and making the world a safer place must be unwavering.
