By: Cliff Kincaid
If you want to appreciate the American sacrifices in war, please talk to veterans or visit memorials and grave sites. Another option is the World War II American Experience Museum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where you learn about the sacrifices also made by the American people as they encountered gas and food rationing, built victory gardens, and gathered up scrap metal for the war effort.
Americans learned to ration foods like sugar, coffee, cheese, and meat. A “victory speed limit” of 35 miles an hour was established to conserve gasoline and rubber tires. Toy companies were converted to making war material.
One exhibit, “Mobilizing for War,” examines how the American people were enlisted in the effort. Another showed “Arsenal of Democracy Production Lines.”
Significantly, the D-Day movie “Pressure” is being released nationwide in the United States on May 29, with special Memorial Day weekend screenings in select cities. The film examines the successful American-led liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany.
We are under a different kind of pressure today. Thirteen US troops have been killed and more than 380 wounded in Operation Epic Fury.
But the sacrifices here at home, to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, are far less.
In today’s war with Iran, there is non-stop moaning and groaning over a rise in the price of gasoline per gallon. We do not face gas rationing or gas lines. It is a small price to pay for a military victory over the Nazi regime in Iran that is backed by Russia and China.
Hysteria over gas prices, still lower than under Biden, is fed by “fake news” media coverage of the war designed to sabotage President Trump and Republicans in November. Beneath the surface, but now coming to the forefront, is the same kind of antisemitism our soldiers fought in World War II.
In his concession speech the other day, as noted by Josh Kraushaar, libertarian Rep. Thomas Massie continued his “antisemitic vitriol” against his opponent, telling the crowd: “I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.” Meanwhile, Texas Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo has pledged to imprison “American Zionists.”
Senator Rand Paul campaigned for Massie, and his publication “Rand Paul Review” says that “he stands where Massie stood.” Senator Rand Paul’s son, William Paul, recently engaged in an intoxicated, antisemitic tirade against Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican Congressman in Washington, D.C., who is a conservative Catholic.
By the way, Zionism is the philosophy that the Jews deserve a homeland after suffering through the Holocaust. Zionists believe in the existence of the state of Israel.
History shows that the Arabs and “Palestinians” rejected that and have lost several wars, finally resorting to the Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023, and then feeling the brunt of the Israeli response.
Removing Hamas from Gaza, or even disarming the terrorists, does not solve the ultimate problem, and the Palestinian Authority is hardly a “moderate” alternative. It is the outgrowth of the old communist-sponsored Palestine Liberation Organization. Personally, I believe Israel faces genocidal opposition that can only be resolved by relocating the so-called Palestinians back to neighboring Arab/Muslim states.
Senator Paul, who has voted against the Iran War, claims that “our financial ticking time bomb” is a problem, and he is partly right about that. However, national defense is the responsibility of the federal government. This cannot be delegated to the states.
The situation in America is so serious that the bipartisan Jewish American Security Act has been introduced, as we just learned that a commander of an Iranian-backed terror group was charged with plotting to attack Jewish sites in the United States. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the terrorist “directed and urged others to attack U.S. and Israeli interests and to kill Americans and Jews in the U.S. and abroad,” in order to advance the terrorist goals of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
As we move forward as a nation, we have to remember “Those Honored Dead,” which is also the name of a poem I presented to Vietnam Vet and former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl at an America’s Survival, Inc. conference. It is written by Marion G. Mahoney. Saving Vietnam from communism was another noble cause.
President Trump has wisely decided to emphasize the benefit of integrating artificial intelligence into our military capabilities. In this regard, one AI defense firm, Palantir, has issued a manifesto, stating that “The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.”
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is openly pro-American, pro-Ukraine, and pro-Israel. Like Iran, Russia deserves to lose its war on Ukraine, and the Putin regime should come to an end as well. Putin should be indicted in the same way the Trump Administration has indicted Cuban Communist Raúl Castro.
The Palantir manifesto also declares, “Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.”
In another plank in their platform, the firm declares, “National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.”
Whether that national service plan happens or not, we have to consider the cost, relatively minor at the current time, of paying more for a gallon of gas in return for the destruction of a Nazi-style regime in Iran.
As negotiations continue over the fate of the regime’s enriched uranium, lying beneath the rubble of Iran’s nuclear facilities, we must honor President Trump and the U.S. Armed Forces for their victory over Iran!
Let us recognize how President Trump, like our third president, Thomas Jefferson, who fought the Muslim Barbary pirates, safeguarded our great nation from a Muslim terrorist regime’s aggression. Then let us honor President Trump with a place on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org
