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In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump
did the right thing, for the right reason and at the right time.
As usual, some in the major media got it wrong. The New York Times
initially headlined: “U.S. Enters War Against Iran.” A Washington Post editorial said: “Trump did not prepare America for his war with Iran.”
The U.S. has effectively been at war with Iran since 1979 when “Iranian students” seized the American Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans
hostages for 444 days before releasing them, apparently fearing what
incoming president Ronald Reagan might do. Trump turned that fear into a reality. In a brief Saturday night address, the president said all of
Iran’s nuclear capabilities were “obliterated,” though the extent of the
damage has not yet been confirmed. He then warned any retaliatory strikes
on Americans would be met with even more disaster for the regime of
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Addressing the “are we, or are we not at war with Iran,” the president
said: “For 40 years, Iran has been saying death to America, death to
Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing
off their legs, with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost
over 1,000 people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East,
and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate. … So many
were killed by their general, Qassim Soleimani. I decided a long time ago
that I would not let this happen. It will not continue.”
Khamenei has reportedly retreated to a bunker, as did Adolf Hitler at the
end of World War II. The difference is that Hitler committed suicide
fearing capture by the Allies while Khamenei is said to be naming his successors should he be killed and is reported to have said he is willing
to die as a martyr. This is another major difference between the two
leaders. The defeat of Hitler squashed Nazism in Germany. Should Khamenei
be toppled, it won’t completely defeat radical Islamism. That’s because it
is a virus that does not respond to a diplomatic “vaccine.” Still, the
bombing may have set back Iran’s nuclear bomb capabilities for a very long time, hopefully forever.
Some feckless European leaders were still pushing the diplomatic track,
despite violations by Iran of previous agreements, until the bombing
began. A few still are.
Democrats are talking impeachment again (yawn). They ignore that their
Nobel Peace Prize president, Barack Obama, bombed targets in seven
countries during his two terms without congressional authorization. The isolationists have again been isolated.
As former Israeli diplomat Yoram Ettinger has correctly stated in his newsletter: “The well-intentioned wish of Isolationists to militarily
disengage from Islamic terrorism, establish peaceful coexistence, and be preoccupied with the domestic agenda, must be based on global and Middle
East reality; not on alternative reality. Thus, since the Muslim Barbary pirates of the early 19th century, irrespective of U.S. policy, Sunni and Shiite Islamic terrorism has been determined NOT to disengage from – but
to intimidate, terrorize and subjugate – the ‘infidel’ West, and
especially the ‘Great American Satan,’ while establishing Islam as the
only legitimate, divinely ordained religion on earth.”
An act of war is a tough decision for any president, but when the world is already at war with Islamic terrorism, there can be no compromise. Failure
to have attacked those nuclear sites would have put not only Israel at
risk of destruction, but the U.S. in greater peril.
President Trump’s bold decision to end the talking and act against an evil menace could change the entire dynamic of the Middle East. Others have
tried and failed. Trump may have just succeeded.
Readers may email Cal Thomas at
tcaeditors@tribpub.com. Look for Cal
Thomas’ latest book “A Watchman in the Night: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America” (HumanixBooks).
https://www.vindy.com/opinion/editorials/2025/06/president-did-the-right- thing/
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