What now with Iran?
Should the United States provide Israel with a bunker buster to finish off Iran’s nuclear capability?
Should the United States back Israel’s desire to kill Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei?
Should Israel accept Iran’s offer to resume negotiations if the United States agrees to stay out of the war?
How will whatever action the United States takes affect the Russian-Ukrainian war?
Clearly, the United State’s interest is to destroy Iran’s nuclear bomb capabilities. The fanatics there have been at it since November 4, 1979, when “students” stormed the American embassy and held 66 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Whatever I think will be colored by my anger over that past assault on our sovereignty, the Carter administration’s incompetence and Barack Obama’s disgraceful release of billions of dollars of Iranian assets that had been frozen and delivering pallets of greenbacks to the regime. That Iran hasn’t paid the price for that outrage is, well, outrageous.
For decades now, Iran has fueled much of the MiddleEast’s misery and bloodshed. Isolationists argue that it’s none of our business. Interventionists argue that the regional instability and wars there affect us indirectly if not directly.
Only the American Air Force can deliver the bunker buster, so if we want to permanently eliminate the threat by delivery a weapon that can take out something a half mile underground we would be involved, spectacularly. Inviting pushback diplomatically and increasing risk of terrorist attacks.
On the other hand, is it possible that Israel, which already has demonstrated remarkable creativity in warfare, could find a way to destroy that bomb-making facility on its own?.
Going back to negations now is to return to decades-long policies that have only allowed Iran to continue to prepare a bomb. One way to end that charade is to destroy the fanatical leadership that has oppressed its own people and instigated violence worldwide.
Some intelligence indicates that Iran has targeted President Donald Trump for assassination. I would take that to be a near-certainty. Indeed, we still don’t know enough about the assassin whose bullet came with an inch of killing Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump remains committed to his campaign promise to keep us out of foreign wars. He wants to be regarded as a peace-maker, but how well has that worked in the Russian-Ukrainian war?
Here’s a chance to have a respective debate among us about how to respond to a complex challenge.
So, here’s my view: Putin and the Ayatollah will continue to play Trump for a fool if he thinks that he can make a “deal” that will bring peace to the Middle East. It will be a return to a policy that has failed for decades. Take out the Ayatollah, even if the only reason is that he is plotting to kill our president.
Sure, another fanatic will step into his shoes, but the lunatics there might finally get the idea that no one is safe. They should have figured it out by now considering how Israel has eliminated the leadership in Gaza and elsewhere.
I’ve been around long enough to be fed up with the hemming and hawing polices by multiple administrations over the Iranian threat to world peace. To me, it’s a replay of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s loopy belief that he could talk Adolph Hitler out of his hunger to rule the world and kill the Jews.
Once again, Jews are the ultimate target of this evil. Once again the free world is being tested. Will we fail once again, raising the cost of what it will take to ultimately settle a hateful fanatic’s hash?