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“Regime Change” In Iran Is Nothing new…Trump Is The First Western Leader To Act Rather Than Obfuscate

 

The world would be a very different place had Western leaders taken seriously the existential threat of Iran’s fanatical Mullahs and their particular brand of Shia Islam.

Western governments have been aware of Iran and its support for terror groups at least since the early 1980s. The 1983 embassy bombing in Beirut, and then the Marine barracks bombing the same year should have been a clarion call for the destruction of the Mullahcracy, but as is the post-modern West’s wont, there was lots of tough talk about sanctions and isolation and containment, but no understanding of the bedrock of the Mullahs…the destruction of Israel, America, and the West.

The 1990s, with the fall of the Soviet Union could have been a tremendous opportunity for a united effort to destroy what was becoming the nexus of Islamic terror, as Iran busily expanded its footprint across the world, and gathered the various Islamic groups. Pivoting to Iran would have been easy. But the West, led by the feckless Bush senior and then the execrable Bill Clinton was more interested in the cash they could extract out of their defense budgets, rather than using them in the defense of America and Europe from the depredations of Iran.

And the terror continued! The Khobar Towers bombing, bombings in Argentina (the Israeli embassy and a Jewish center), and uncountable suicide bombings…all at the hands of iran’s proxies.

And continued… Iran enthusiastically supported attacks on Coalition troops in Iraq…even exporting its IED technology to maximize death and destruction. The assassination of Lebanon’s Prime Minister in 2005, which led to the downfall of Lebanon as a (barely) functioning state, Hamas and Islamic Jihad bombings, and even limited support for the Afghan insurgency… all of it followed the same tired script that the West carefully ignored.

And why? Oil. Europe and the rest of the world was addicted to Iranian oil, and they would rather have a steady supply of petroleum than defend themselves from an apocalyptic philosophy whose only goal was their destruction! Add in rabid Jew-hate among the left, who relished the thought of an ascendant Iran as a counter to Israel and its rapidly growing technological and military base, and the stage was set for Iran to become the power in the Middle East.

Oceans of oil money, a complacent West that was comfortable with some level of death and destruction that Iran paid for, and only Israel saying publicly what most people didn’t want to hear…Iran wants the destruction of…everything!

So Iran got busy expanding the manufacturing capacity…theater ballistic missiles, drones, antiaircraft systems, and most terrifying; a massive nuclear research program with the goal of nuclear weapons.

And it was all paid for with Western and Chinese money! Even billions of dollars of American taxpayer funds, courtesy of the Obama administration, supposedly in exchange for…who knows!

But President Donald Trump shattered the paradigm of Western Weakness vs. Iranian intransigence. It should have been done 40 years ago after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 American Marines and 58 French soldiers. It should have been done after the Paris bombings in 1985-1986. It should have been done after the Argentina bombings in the early 1990s. It should have been done after the Hariri assassination. And it most certainly should have been done after Iran was proven to be the source for the IEDs and other weapons that were used to kill so many American servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The price we are paying for what should have been done a long time ago is a painful reminder that, as Winston Churchill famously said:

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely.

President Donald Trump is not an appeaser, and future generations will laud him as the American president who finally stopped the apocalyptic Iranian dictatorship, and prevented a nuclear war in the Middle East.

His interlocutors are curiously silent about the 47 year history of Iranian-exported death and destruction. They are more interested in exercising their hatred of Donald Trump, and far less interested in defending America from Iran’s unshakable focus on the death of America and the West. They are the appeasers about whom Churchill spoke, and it should be a permanent stain on anyone who does not have the moral clarity to see that the destruction of the Mullahcracy is a fundamental good.