Rooting For a U.S. Defeat
The president’s political opponents and their media cohorts have done everything to paint a grim picture of America’s war against Iran. They characterize the administration as being trapped neck-deep in a quagmire. That, despite the fact the war has gone better than the administration, or anyone else expected, does not stop the naysayers from regurgitating their false narrative that the war is: illegal, without a plan, and incompetently led. Like Iran, those against the war are counting on mounting political pressure to force the administration to end the conflict without Iran’s surrender or capitulation. Such a result would be gleefully peddled as a failure by the domestic adversaries and foreign enemies of this administration.
President Trump insists that Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, as did his predecessors of both parties over the last two decades. Obama’s JCPOA would have delayed Iran’s nuclear development program for ten years, assuming Iran would not cheat, which of course runs against their way of doing business. Nevertheless, cheating or not, the terms of the agreement would remove all constraints on Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, after ten years. That is certainly not a very smart or comforting prospect. What Obama’s JCPOA would accomplish is best described as kicking the can down the road while he gave Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, access to $1.7 billion dollars which it used to fund, the terrorist regimes of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in their war against Israel and the West.
The U.S. and Israel have decimated Iran’s varsity team, and now the junior varsity team of genocidal jihadists are running-scared and running the country into the ground. Their newly hatched leadership crows about their success in defeating the Great Satan and the Little Satan, America and Israel, respectively. Like an empty barrel, their absurd and empty threats make the most noise because they contain no substance. Their false bravado marks the croaking of a defeated enemy, as it gasps its last breath desperately trying to save face. They are bound and determined to fight to the last man, woman and child, while their leaders, flush with cash, flee the country, leaving in their wake a mound of ash.
Carl von Clausewitz, who was a 19th Century Prussian military officer and considered the world’s “master of masters” about how to wage war, warned that the greatest danger often follows success. Success in battle does not equal success in war.
The true test of the success of the campaign against Iran by the U.S. and Israel will be the eventual overthrow of the 7th Century theocrats by democracy yearning Iranians who aspire to enter the 21st Century. With Iran’s land, sea, and air power degraded to such an extent, its citizenry now has an opportunity to overthrow the oppressive regime before it can reconstitute itself and recover sufficiently to retain its choke-hold on its beleaguered populace. Now is the time for Iranians to cast off the shackles of oppression and restore their country to its former glory.
