Yesterday as Trump started indicating there might be a deal with Iran, social media was flooded with accounts saying we were surrendering to Iran – giving them billions, allowing them to control Hormuz, paying them reparations, withdrawing all US forces from the Middle East…on and on and on like that. This was then seconded by a whole chorus of voices from the anti-Trump Right.
And it was all nonsense – none of it came from Team Trump. It was all clearly an op. Attempting to set a Narrative of Trump being defeated. The sources, from what I can tell, were Iranian revolutionary guard accounts and, of course, American and global Leftist accounts. The uniformity of the information on the alleged deal shows that they were talking points cooked up in advance (coordinated between Democrats and the Mullahs?). Once a hint that a deal might be possible, out the memo went…and the barking seals went with it. We expect this from the Left…but it was infuriating to see it from the Right. And not just the deranged, TDS right. You’d think by now they would have learned – that Trump isn’t an idiot, he’s working from a plan and he’s not out to scuttle the USA.
Now that some real details are starting to emerge, we can see the shape of what Trump wants to accomplish: complete termination of Iran’s nuclear program along with freedom of navigation through Hormuz. The crux of it seems to be that Iran doesn’t get anything until those two things are accomplished (this would include the US taking possession of Iran’s enriched uranium). But even now, we still don’t know – there has been no official word. But this does make sense.
You might ask: what about regime change? Well, what about it? During the bombing the Air Force and the IDF were targeting mullah security goons…they were hiding under bridges and such to keep out of sight of our aircraft. The entire leadership of the regime was dead or in hiding. This was the moment, guys. If the Iranians wanted to be free, it was theirs for the taking. Sure, the mullah’s goons would have fought…they’d have to, because any successor regime is going to kill them. But freedom must be fought for and the Iranians had the perfect opportunity. Might have cost them some thousands of lives, but that would be it and it would all be over. The Iranian people remained in hiding. They’d take a video of a bomb explosion. Cheer it. And then go back inside…no risk taking. At least, not by anywhere near enough Iranians to matter. This is the Iranians choice – to be cowards. As far as I’m concerned, they just voted in overwhelming numbers for the mullahs. Exile groups were putting up pictures of the Iranian crown prince and saying now was the time…but I guess in all the press of events they forgot to sneak into Iran and actually fight the mullahs. I didn’t care much about the Iranian people before…care absolutely nothing about them, now. They were clearly waiting for an American army to show up and liberate them…after which they would, of course, compete with each other to be more anti-American than the other guy…probably start taking shots at our troops to prove how anti-American they are. No, thanks.
And I’m not even particularly concerned about navigation through Hormuz…as long as American-flagged ships aren’t molested, I now don’t care at all. You think of that the Indian ship which went into a panic over some goon on the Iranian coast firing an AK-47 at it…bullets ain’t gonna stop a 400,000 ton tanker. Harmlessly bounce off the side. If you’re worried about it, hire some mercenaries to man some .50 caliber machine guns aboard the tanker: out in international waters you can kill anyone attacking you with impunity. But the Indian ship ran away…and the rest of the world’s merchant fleet also chickened out, even though it is clear that the mullahs have no capacity to actually impede navigation. The world gets its oil from there, not us. If you’re such a coward that you won’t cruise past some guys taking pot shots at you, then that is a you problem, not an American problem.
I’m rather tired of the world – bunch of greedy, lying cowards. I do have a little respect for the Ukrainians these days as they’ve stood up to Russia. The Israelis get my respect, as do the Japanese. Heck, even the Chinese get a measure of it. Rest of the world? I hold it in utter contempt. The other day some Indian tourists defaced some ancient Native carvings here in the USA…get the danged foreigners out of my country – every last one of them. They don’t add any value to the USA. And if the world burns down then as long as our Navy and Air Force are second to none, we won’t catch fire. I’m honestly of the opinion that if the world wants our help, then they’re going to have to pay us for it – gold, raw materials, territorial concessions. You’re having a civil war and want us to end it? Sure. We’re taking your primary export port. Kicking all of your nationals out of it. Making it American territory. Now you have to export through us. Forever. And you can’t immigrate to US territory. Ever. So on like that.
And I’m tired of the traitors in our midst, as well – the people (and includes people on the Right) who are willing to sell us out just so they don’t have to admit they were wrong about anything. That is really the crux of it – a pig headed unwillingness to merely at error. The rest of us have – we on the MAGA side are repentant and humble. We know we participated in helping to screw everything up. We were wrong about a lot of things. Sometimes honestly wrong in that we didn’t realize we had been deceived, but still wrong…and when you find your error, the only thing to do is own up to it and fix the problem. Not whine about “norms” and get all pissy that the person you hate turned out to be right.
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I would be thrilled if they can find a way to end this war. I don’t care if it comes across as a Trump win or loss.
The war is over, Cap. We won; all that’s left is tidying things up. Trump had apparently preferred a revolution in Iran but the Iranians proved to be cowards. So be it: we’ll be obtaining Iran’s enriched uranium (after entirely destroying their nuclear facilities) and confirming freedom of navigation at least for ourselves and those Gulf States which proved helpful.
Iran is now militarily wrecked, economically crushed and diplomatically isolated…only the EU offers a ghost of a hope for them because the EU is committed to Islamism these days (far more so than Islam is). There are stories floating about that the Abraham Accords will be expanded and more and more nations will make peace with Israel…the battle against The Zionist Entity is also coming to a close. No thanks to anyone in the Global Establishment…took people with courage and wisdom just weeks to finish that off. Iran’s government is divided between the realists and the die hards…the realists will be offered a seat at the table if they can prevail.
but the Iranians proved to be cowards
That’s sad. I’ve always been of the opinion that the yearning for freedom was an inherent part of the human spirit. Maybe the 30,000 or so that the regime slaughtered put a damper on that yearning.
It sure would! But, as I noted, we and the IDF were hunting the goons…that was the Iranian peoples chance. They choose not to take it…and when we sent some arms to the Kurdish rebels in Iran, they totally screwed us on it…preferring to just sit tight in Iranian Kurdistan. Which is their choice and fine – but not helpful to us. Looks like Trump got the measure of the Kurds and decided to cut ties. Don’t really see where the Kurds are hoping to wind up…but there’s a high chance that the Iranian Kurdish leadership is the tool of the Turks (as the Turkish Kurdish rebels might be tools of the Mullahs) and as Turkey wants the Mullah regime to survive, they might have told the Iranian Kurds to cool it.
But, you think about it: has anyone in that area ever struck a blow for liberty? I mean real liberty: “we hold these truths to be self evident” kind of liberty? I can’t think of any such. They’ve fought to get rid of a foreign ruler. They’ve fought to impose their rule on foreigners. I don’t know of any time they fought just to be free. Thousands of years of history and the people simply enduring one tyrant after another. I recall in a history of Tamerlane’s conquests in the area where one of his warriors – who had apparently distinguished himself in battle – was given a street in a city to loot to his heart’s content…he started off by going down the street and, one after another, killing every adult male who lived on the street. They didn’t resist or run away. One man. With a sword. If just two of the men had teamed up against him, he’d have been killed. Where do you get such people?
OTOH, there must be something good in there – they are people. Sons and daughters of God, just like us. But I think they need a century or two of very strict colonial rule by Westerners if anything useful is to be made out of them.
Fortunately many of us would just think of it as “America’s win” but then not everyone bases “political” opinions and decisions on Identity Politics.
In his tribute to Memorial Day, Jeff Childers mentioned this:
I’m pretty sure he’s talking about the Florence, S.C. Stockade. I had a great great uncle who was one of the ones who perished there. He and his brother (my great grandfather’s brothers) were captured at the battle of Chickamauga, and imprisoned at the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, GA. They had a cousin (my great grandmother’s brother) who also fought in the same battle and was KIA. One of the brothers died at Andersonville, while the second was evacuated to the Florence Stockade when Sherman swept through Georgia.
I thought for the longest time that I had no Civil War veteran ancestors but I was digging around for info on my grand-uncle Eddie Diggins (brother of my paternal grandmother – I had inherited his gold watch years ago) and found that one of my grandmother’s grandfathers was a Civil War veteran…apparently of the most vigorous Abolitionist bent as his obituary mentioned his battle with “the Slave Power” even before the Civil War.
Childers ends his post today with this:
Kind of says it all.
I think it was Mark who made the comment “I am quite done with the world” ….
As am I
I am exhausted from the constant complaining. I am exhausted from the fabrication of drama. And I am exhausted from the double standards and virtue signaling. The American Left has proven beyond a shadow of doubt that they are a malignant cancer in this country. The only cure is to politically, or physically eliminate them. If we don’t, we will lose the great American experiment and our grandchildren will live through the mediocrity and malaise of socialism. That’s a guarantee.
And how disappointing are the Iranian people??? They have shown the world that they are cowards. At the very least, Iran has been set back 20 years in nuclear development, so mission accomplished. And in ten years, if Iran is getting frisky again, hit them hard again. And let the Chinese and Europe worry about the Strait of Hormuz, we don’t need it.
Good time to retire and find a quiet place in Idaho.
Yup. We are moving next month. Thankfully I will not have to suffer from the malignant ignorance of the American Left but if they are not eliminated, my grandchildren will. And that doesn’t set well with me.
The younger generation of Democrats are the most insidious, disrespectful, uneducated, intolerant and condescending piece of shit generation this country has ever had to confront. But they need to be confronted. And forcefully.
My guess is that the forcefully part won’t come until they’ve figured out a way to gain total power. Then they’ll try to “force” people like you and me to do what they tell us. We’ll tell them to pound sand, and then we’ll see how good they are at enforcing their policies. There was a popular saying back during the Vietnam War: what would happen if they held a war and nobody came? That’s what the Dems will be facing if they gain power and try to turn us into subjects. And they’ll be faced with a two-sided dilemma: first they’ll have to disarm us, and, well, that ain’t gonna happen, so the second part likely never comes into play, although it doesn’t mean they won’t try. It saddens me that I won’t be around to see it, because it’s gonna be a helluva fight, and I can’t imagine a better way to exit this earth than fighting for freedom. The one thing I’ll concede to the Left is that they NEVER give up, no matter how many millions they kill, but, at some point they will have to be totally and utterly destroyed. It’ll make a great movie.
Sort of off topic, because the bureaucrats behind the pandemic response were not necessarily “idiots,” even though what they did could certainly be described as beyond idiotic and well toward the malignant end of the scale . Robert Malone’s essay today is worth a read.
The Iranian people were told by both Pahlavi and POTUS to go home and not come back to the streets until they called. I would hold off on the “coward” label. It might just be a bit premature.
Increasing evidence that Republicans are really fed up with RINOs.