“Unprovoked”

Yeah right, you Jew-hating, Israel-baiting, Mullah-fellating dick with ears.

Trump Isn’t Starting a War, He’s Ending One
As of this writing, the United States and Israel have begun what I can only assume to be the first round of military strikes on Iran. I also assume that the eventual goal is regime change, effected by the United States, but driven by the Iranian people. And I’m not alone. Over the past few days, the so-called “think” tanks are falling all over themselves to be the first to prophesy a quagmire, a “trap,” a “forever war,” and Iraq 3.0.

The dregs at Foreign Policy took a break from clamoring for a post-American world order to demand we not bomb Iran precisely to more quickly usher in said order. At Powerline blog, John Hinderaker gleefully straddles the fence as only he can by declaring his hope that Trump bombs the mullahs with the goal of regime change… and in the same sentence, expresses doubt that this will be accomplished. And if you’re willing to waste the brain cells, you can guess what ol’ Tucker’s position on it is.

But the absolute worst take must be from John Daniel Davison over at The Federalist. John’s main point is that if we allegedly “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear abilities with Operation Midnight Hammer, than why do we need to now bomb Iran again to prevent them from acquiring nuclear capabilities?

Um, well, because Iran is trying to rebuild them. As we knew they would. And if we keep bombing only their nuclear facilities, they will simply keep rebuilding them until the next Democrat gets elected president and we stop sending bombs and start sending pallets of cash again. So there’s that.

John writes, “At a certain point, it begins to look like the Trump administration is fishing for a reason to strike Iran. Sorry, but that’s not good enough.”

Fishing for a reason?

I’ll give you a few reasons, John. You tell me if they’re “good enough.”

  1. On November 4, 1979, the Iranian government took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
  2. The Iranian government helped create, fund, and arm Hezbollah and Hamas.
  3. On April 18, 1983, Hezbollah bombed the American embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
  4. On October 23, 1983, Iranian-backed terrorists bombed the American and French barracks in Beirut, killing 307 people.
  5. Over the next decade, Iranian-backed terrorists hijacked several planes, including TWA flight 847, which resulted in the killing of an American sailor.
  6. On July 22, 1985, Hezbollah bombed a synagogue, a Jewish nursing home, and a kindergarten in Copenhagen.
  7. On March 17, 1992, Hezbollah bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 people.
  8. On July 18, 1994, Hezbollah bombed a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people.
  9. On June 25, 1996, Iranian-backed terrorists bombed Khobar Towers, killing 19 American servicemen.
  10. Iran provided training and expertise to al-Qaeda to commit the 1998 embassy bombings

That’s just the first half; he has plenty more, all of ’em good. And even the full 20 the author lists are by no stretch all of ’em. Bottom line? Simply this.

To be sure, there is risk involved. To our soldiers. To the anti-regime Iranian civilians. To a postwar possibility that the regime survives intact. But there is greater risk in blowing this one golden opportunity to end this war once and for all, so that the next four generations of our soldiers don’t have to deal with it.

With our perfect hindsight, we can continue to fill our diapers with our unvanquishable anxieties about George Bush and Colin Powell and missing WMDs and losing the post-9/11 goodwill of the French and losing the hearts and minds of Afghan goatherds… and in the process, we would have given the ayatollahs another 47 years, with all the Democrat surrenders, pallets of cash, and worthless pieces of paper about nuclear disarmament that they will entail.

Trump chose not to do that. His decision is risky, but it carries the moral fortitude of being indisputably on the right side of history. The dice have been rolled. We can get behind our leader, our troops, and the fight for a world free from Islamic terrorism. Or we can go see what Michael Moore is up to.

In Trump’s decision to strike Iran, he hasn’t started a “forever war.” He’s attempting to end one. Nothing good would have c(o)me had we retreated. The Iranian-led war of terror against the West would have resume(d), more confident and more brazen. The world would be a worse place, and a lot more innocent people are going to die. That’s not an opinion. That’s an indisputable fact.

Indeed it is—ALL of it.

Update! Gratifying details.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86
They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.

Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time.

That moment was 8:15 this morning. Daylight. Every previous Israeli strike on Iran came at night. June 2025 launched in darkness. October 2024 after midnight. Iran’s entire air defense doctrine is built around the assumption that Israel attacks in the dark. Israel attacked in broad daylight because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting.

Reuters confirms strikes targeted Khamenei and Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning. Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran’s top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei was moved before the strike or extracted after is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now. If before, someone inside Tehran’s inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If after, the strikes hit the room and he survived. Both scenarios are catastrophic for the regime.

I’m all good wid dat.

3 thoughts on ““Unprovoked”

  1. Since 1979 we’ve let the Mad Mullahs continue to attack us while shouting “Death to America”.

    I pray Trump is successful in ending this travesty and the Mullahs head for their own special Circle of Hell to boot.

    MAGA

  2. Sometimes it’s just a pure pleasure to say I told you so:
    #1) I said, prior to the 2024 election, that Trump would take down the mullahs in Iran, take out maduro in Venezuela, and isolate cuba until it falls. In the aftermath Mexico and Colombia would get dealt with. The real power in Mexico and Colombia are the cartels – you have had a sneak preview of what is coming the last week.

    #2) I have routinely pointed out the lethality and capability of our military. In spite of the attempt by the obama and biden cabals to destroy the military, it remains without any peer and is the most lethal and capable force ever, multiples better than the nearest competitor. Get rid of a few morons in high heels that gave the appearance of incompetence, and boom, the actual military never really left. That is the one that men like my multiple uncles spent entire careers building to be the most lethal and capable group on earth. They are gone now, but I know they are up in heaven with damn big smiles today!

    This will be a short military operation. Why? Because President Trump gave our military the order to take Iran down, all the way down. Kill the mullahs, destroy the military capability they have, destroy their defensive hardware (that wonderfully easy to defeat russian shit), and do not worry about the political fallout or the china/russia issue. Kill them, kill them all. We can, we are, we have.

    It is GLORIOUS!

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