By: Cliff Kincaid
President Trump uttered a few curse words about Iran and ending their “civilization,” and he is under attack once again. But civilizations come and go. The one I am concerned about is the United States of America, now in our 250th year. Trump has acted to save Western civilization from a Nazi-style regime in religious garb pursuing nuclear weapons.
People forget that World War II ended only after we dropped nuclear bombs on Japan and American troops saved Europe, including France, from the Nazis. But France didn’t come to our side in the current war. There is a lesson here.
The critics somehow miss the significance of “Death to America” from the Iranian regime. That regime was threatening to destroy our people and our nation. The critics apparently don’t regard that phrase “Death to America” as meaning the end of America, and so they let it pass. But they go ballistic over a Trump Tweet.
Perhaps it is because they hate America as the Mullahs do. They certainly hate America as it is being resurrected as a successful military power under Trump.
Echoing the communists, who openly participate in Democratic Party affairs, the critics call Trump the new Hitler and question his fitness for office.
These people are either communists or weak panty-waists and milquetoasts, ignoring the history of the U.S.-Iran conflict. They are unfit to comment. Trump hurts their feelings with his verbal attacks, so they turn on America during a time of war. It is shameful.
I am more concerned about the 13 brave warriors who sacrificed their lives for America and the hundreds more who have been injured. Their noble cause has staved off a nuclear catastrophe on American soil.
We have to understand history. Iran is the regime established by Democratic President Jimmy Carter that a series of American governments, Democrat and Republican, have warned is pursuing nuclear weapons to use against the Big Satan, America, and the Little Satan, Israel.
If Trump hadn’t acted, the existence of our country and Israel would have been threatened. The critics ignore that. They are more worried about a few curse words from Trump. They are concerned about his rhetoric, not the dramatic military achievements of our U.S. Armed Forces.
Under Trump, we have a military that is second to none.
As for civilizations and empires, look at our so-called allies. Remember the British Empire? How about the Roman Empire? America could easily have gone down the crapper if President Trump had not acted to diminish and even end the regime in Iran, which was moving to dominate the Middle East.
Another ally, Spain, once the sponsor of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, is now ruled by a group of socialists who have left the Western alliance.
The victory in the Middle East could have been faster and easier if our so-called “allies” had participated. As a result, NATO, once a bulwark against the Soviet Union, is breaking apart. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte admits NATO is in crisis.
Western civilization is under threat from two major international movements, global Islam and communism. It is clear some of our European allies do not understand this. They will suffer the consequences. Many already have through illegal immigration.
Global Islam is at a turning point, with the divisions between Shia and Sunni Islam, while communism is on the defensive, with setbacks in Venezuela and now Cuba. Trump’s victory in Iran has already seen the Gulf states turn against Iran and may then pursue a peace deal with Israel.
The critics say Trump is threatening “war crimes” when the Iranian regime has been waging war crimes against the United States and the Gulf states. Trump’s war is one of self-defense. As such, he needed no congressional declaration of war.
The bottom line is that Iran’s “civilization” doesn’t deserve to live. Almost 50 years of dominance by religious fanatics determined to nuke America and Israel have made the nation unfit to continue or even survive in the civilized world.
These words may sound harsh, just like Trump’s threats, but they are necessary and proper. Iran has lost the right to live as a sovereign nation.
It might be possible to cleanse the country of its religious zealots and allow Iran to continue to survive as a civilized nation. That is the hope as we move forward. That was the intention of the Shah of Iran before Jimmy Carter engineered his ouster on human rights grounds, permitting the first Ayatollah to take power.
A model of governance might be post-World War II Japan or Germany, once the madmen have been purged and executed and the country occupied. But using American ground troops to accomplish that is a risk that Trump may not take.
It appears that, without our allies participating in this endeavor, it might be advisable for Trump to strike a quick deal for peace and let the Europeans handle it, since they depend on the Strait of Hormuz for their energy. We don’t need it. We don’t need them.
Another alternative is to completely obliterate Iran’s oil facilities. Trump is apparently hesitant because of the oil that flows through the strait to other countries. At the end of the two-week ceasefire period, Trump might decide to further pummel the country, including its energy and oil facilities. That would be entirely defensible.
However, the conclusion that has to be made and reiterated time and time again is that our civilization is worth saving, not theirs. This has to be the case during America’s 250th anniversary year. Anyone arguing to the contrary is an agent of Iran and the communists or a complete dupe of the hate-America media.
In that regard, Trump can cuss all he wants to. I would rather read his Tweets than for Americans to suffer obliteration from an Iranian nuclear bomb. Thank you, President Trump.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. usasurvival.org
