Do you remember the old oil filter ads when the car mechanic
told listeners, “You can pay me now or pay me later”? Those concerned about a
war instigated by Iran should keep that axiom in mind. Do I advocate an
Afghanistan/Iraq style military invasion? NO. Or at least not yet.
Shooting an unmanned drone out of international air space
might not seem significant enough spank Iran, BUT an Iranian terrorist history of belligerence
that often caused American deaths since 1979 should be taken into consideration
after the Iranian military shoots at anything American.
The U.S. can start by destroying Iran’s military
capabilities and going from there depending on Iranian idiocy.
JRH 6/22/19
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A Forty Year Rush to
War
Killing Americans Never Bothered Iran
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 6/21/2019 9:55
PM
Avoiding a U.S. military strike by a mere ten minutes
recently, Iran has long danced across the razor's edge and pushed the limits
with America, from the first days of the Ayatollah's revolution to the present,
and despite anything to the contrary portrayed by the anti-American Communists
and Democrats in our country, no one is to blame for Iran's current sorry state
of affairs, other than Iran's mullahs and the rogue regime they head, a regime
that should have been eradicated long before America ever had to enter
Afghanistan.
Since May 12th and the Iranian attacks on four oil tankers in the
Gulf of Oman, close to the port city of Fujairah, the world has
witnessed Iran also use mines to attack two other oil
tankers on June 13th, the Kokuka Courageous and the Front Altair,
while on that same day, according to CENTCOM, they attempted to shoot down a
U.S. MQ-9 drone with a SA-7 surface-to-air missile. And now, on June 20th, Iran shot down a $187 million dollar
unmanned MQ-4C Triton drone, the Navy's version of the RQ-4A Global
Hawk, over the Straits of Hormuz, the international waterway so vital for the
world's commerce and economy and the transport of oil and food.
Let's not forget that the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and
his Revolutionary Guard took our U.S. Embassy in 1979 and held fifty-two Americans hostage for
444 days; don't forget that from that day forth, Iran has been the
number one exporter of terrorism across the globe, as its terrorist acts still
persist today, in the here and now, and through its Revolutionary Guard and
Hezbollah, it has taken Lebanon, while it tries to take Iraq, Syria,
Afghanistan and Yemen.
Let's also not forget that Iran is responsible for the bombing of the
U.S. Marine Barracks and 241 dead Marines in 1983, through its
Hezbollah proxy, the U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut and 17 dead Americans [actually
63 killed of which 17 were Americans], the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing and
19 dead Americans, not to mention disappearing U.S. citizens like Bob Levinson in 2007 and
plotting to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the
United States at a Washington, D.C. restaurant.
President Trump will make a terrible miscalculation for the
country's future, if he is holding back out of fear that any retaliation may be
seen as "unpopular" and cost him the election, because that is just
what Iran is hoping he will do. For forty years they've subverted U.S. policy
in the Middle East, killed hundreds of American soldiers and always waited for
the more malleable Leftist Democrats to take the Oval Office, so they could
continue on, business as usual.
On December 2nd 2013, I wrote something that is even more
true today: Does anyone really believe that Iran will ever stop attacking the
U.S. and Israel and their interests across the globe, as long as the mullahs,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Islam -- the Mother of All Totalitarian Theocracies
-- keep Iran in a stranglehold?
Many so called experts say we can afford to wait, until Iran
collapses under the weight of sanctions, or the people rise up an overthrow the
Mullahs. This is unlikely to happen soon, since the Revolutionary Guard has
infiltrated all sectors of Iran's society and murder dissenters at the
slightest provocation. The Mullahs are far too willing to sacrifice Iranians so
long as they can stay in power and continue with their agenda to create a
greater Iranian influence and control of most of the Middle East, especially
Shia areas.
Do we wait at the expense of thousands of more deaths, in
order not to alienate a certain "friendly" segment within Iran, or do
we act and end the threat for all time, freeing those "friendlies"
from their Islamic masters in the hopes they will understand?
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani recently warned: "We have always
guaranteed the security of this strait. Do not play with the lion's tail. You
will regret it forever."
And in the meantime, Iran continues at a furious pace to
improve its nuclear weapons program. Some experts, such as James Woolsey (former
Director of the CIA), William Graham (Pres. Reagan's NASA administrator) and
Fritz Ermarth (Special Assistant to the President under Reagan and former CIA),
suggest that Iran already has nuclear
weapons and that America should not be too hasty to enter a war
with a regime that may not hesitate to use them, if threatened with a final
defeat. They add that any retaliatory bombing would only start a war that would
be far more difficult than anything seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I don't think Iran has a fully functional nuclear weapon
yet, or at least not one that they are able to deliver to the United States. If
they did, I believe they would have already found a way to strike the U.S. --
the Great Satan -- by giving it to a terrorist and being able to deny any
knowledge of it in the aftermath of the radioactive fallout.
Whatever America does, at some point in the future, Iran will not hesitate whenever they decide to deliver a murderous strike on our shores. No one should forget that former Iranian President Ahmadinejad once warned that some 70,000 Revolutionary Guard were living in the U.S. as sleeper agents prepared to do their worse, ready to conduct widespread terror, if ever called upon by him or the Ayatollah. The unfolding chaos would be worth the risk, as it would smoke these domestic enemies from hiding, with their deaths being the final results and hopefully with few of our own dying.
Whatever America does, at some point in the future, Iran will not hesitate whenever they decide to deliver a murderous strike on our shores. No one should forget that former Iranian President Ahmadinejad once warned that some 70,000 Revolutionary Guard were living in the U.S. as sleeper agents prepared to do their worse, ready to conduct widespread terror, if ever called upon by him or the Ayatollah. The unfolding chaos would be worth the risk, as it would smoke these domestic enemies from hiding, with their deaths being the final results and hopefully with few of our own dying.
Make no mistake. The Iranian attack on our drone was no
"mistake" as Trump hopefully mused.
Shortly after the Triton drone was downed, President Trump
tweeted: "We were cocked & loaded to retaliate ... I asked, how many
people will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer ... 10 minutes before the
strike I stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned
drone."
America recently learned a retaliatory attack was in
the works, over the drone downing, and it was focused on specific targets
linked to Iran's nuclear facilities. As such, those potential 150 potential
casualties that prompted President Trump to back off of any retaliation were
military personnel, for the most part. Iran has never had any compunction over
inflicting U.S. casualties, and it never will.
No, we don't need to rush to war, but I wouldn't call
accepting forty years of murders of Americans and destruction of American
property a "rush". America's waste of time in this situation
only assures us that whenever the time does arrive that we must deal with Iran
militarily, it will be infinitely harder than it should have been, especially
with Russia and China currently helping them circumvent sanctions.
On June 20th, Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill:
"Here's what Iran needs to get ready for: Severe pain inside their
country", adding his warning that if Tehran is "itching for a fight,
they're going to get one."
Senator Graham also suggested the U.S. is
"a lot closer today (to military conflict) than we were yesterday, and God
only knows what tomorrow brings." He also suggested the likelihood of a
U.S. intervention in the region increases greatly if Israel launches its own
campaign against Iran.
Rather than allow them to acquire viable nukes and missiles
with enough range to hit America, or to be smuggled into a U.S. city by a
proxy, the United States should mount a sustained bombing campaign, similar to
the one used against Hanoi, that hits every nuclear facility and every
government building and military installation, sooner rather than later, and
without any "boots on the ground" or invasion; let the Iranians pick
up the pieces as they will. And although a good many civilians might die too,
most of the casualties will be those deserving of death.
America must gather up the democratic courage, the
intellectual honesty and the willingness to act, or the consequences that so
many are afraid of now will pale in comparison later. America must soon act to
stop any and all threats from Iran, or the world that evolves ten years down
the road will be infinitely more dangerous and deadly than the one we have
today.
By Justin O. Smith
Edited by John R. Houk
Source links and text enclosed by brackets are by the
Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
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