The current war against Iran was totally unnecessary. WAS. Past tense. This disaster was born in 1979 when the so called Islamic Revolution rolled in and the mullahs decided kidnapping American diplomats was a smart opening move. They terrorized and held our embassy staff hostage for 444 days. They turned the United States into a global punchline.
President Jimmy Carter had a choice. Crush a fragile regime that had just shown its fangs, or sit at a table and beg for cooperation. He chose the table. Endless negotiations. A rescue attempt that collapsed in the desert. The message to Tehran was simple. America hesitates. America negotiates. America bleeds slowly.
Tehran learned the lesson.
For nearly five decades the regime metastasized. Terror proxies. Assassination plots. Missiles. “Death to America” as a slogan repeated like a national anthem. Then along comes Joe Biden, who decided that handing billions to the same regime was somehow strategic genius. I lot of the money effectively drawn from American taxpayers struggling to afford groceries and gas. Explain the benefit. There isn’t one.
Iran has mocked us for nearly half a century. Mocked our red lines. Mocked our diplomacy. Mocked our restraint. Now suddenly we discover resolve and call the conflict unavoidable. It is not unavoidable. It is the predictable result of decades of weakness.
This war exists only because we refused to bitch slap a hostile regime when it was vulnerable. We chose caution over strength, optics over deterrence. I now must ask, how many American lives may pay the price for leadership failures stretching back to 1979.
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