This didn’t begin Friday.
Carter started it.
He watched the Islamic Republic take power, watched American diplomats get seized and paraded on television for 444 days, spent the rest of his presidency negotiating with people who had already told us exactly what they were.
Reagan facilitated it.
October 23rd, 1983. A Hezbollah truck bomb funded and directed by Iran killed 241 United States Marines in Beirut while they slept. The deadliest single day for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. Reagan’s response? Tehran was heard clearly and never forgotten kill enough Americans at once and America will leave.
That lesson became the operational blueprint for every Iran-backed proxy attack for the next forty years.
Clinton ignored it.
1995 — a car bomb in Riyadh kills five Americans.
1996 — Khobar Towers. A massive truck bomb kills 19 United States Air Force personnel in Saudi Arabia. Nothing.
1998 — Embassy bombings in Africa.
2000 — USS Cole. Seventeen sailors killed. Clinton launched missiles at an empty training camp and an aspirin factory. Eight years. Hundreds of Americans dead or wounded. Zero consequences for Tehran.
Bush handed them the keys.
He called them the Axis of Evil correctly. Then invaded two countries simultaneously and handed Iran the greatest strategic gift in its history. Iranian Quds Force operatives flooded across the border funding, training, and arming the militias killing our soldiers.
And the response was to continue the war while avoiding direct confrontation with the country killing our people.
By the time Bush left office Iran had deeper influence in Iraq than we did.
Obama funded it.
This is where failure becomes unforgivable. The Green Revolution of 2009 where millions of Iranians in the streets begging for American support ignored.
The protesters were crushed. The regime survived. Then came the $150 billion in sanctions relief, sunset clauses that expired within a decade, zero restrictions on ballistic missiles, and zero restrictions on funding proxy terror networks.
Then came the cash. $1.7 billion. On pallets. On an unmarked plane. In the middle of the night. Delivered simultaneously with American hostages.
The regime used the imagery as propaganda for years and used the money to fund Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthi expansion in Yemen, and the proxy militia networks in Iraq and Syria that spent the next decade killing Americans.
Obama literally funded the apparatus that put the drone into Tower 22.
Biden surrendered to it.
160-plus attacks on American forces from October 2023 forward. American soldiers killed in Jordan. Two Navy SEALs lost at sea intercepting Iranian weapons shipments to the Houthis.
Houthi missiles disrupting global shipping lanes.
Iranian proxies running operations across five countries.
Three Georgia soldiers died in their beds.
Then came Trump.
He looked at forty-five years of this record and did something no president had done since the hostages came home.
He said no.
Maximum pressure. IRGC designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Sanctions reimposed. The JCPOA abandoned. Soleimani the architect of Iranian proxy violence across the entire Middle East, personally responsible for hundreds of American deaths killed in a precision strike in January 2020.
The regime paralyzed.
The proxies recalibrated. The nuclear program set back. For the first time in four decades the regime faced a president it genuinely could not predict.
Then Trump left office. Biden came in. The pressure evaporated. The appeasement resumed. And the regime, patient as it has always been, went back to work.
And now we’re here.
So the next time someone tells you this is Trump’s war tell them they are brainless twats.
This isn’t Trump’s war.
This is forty-five years of American presidents refusing to finish it and one president finally deciding that the bill comes due.
RE: Defeating Terrorism
X today is aflame with some really insightful analyses of the significance of the strikes on Iran.
Two major themes have emerged:
First, all it ever took to defeat terrorism was the will to do it.
Second, the USA and Israel as a team are unbeatable militarily and in terms of creating and using actionable intelligence.
So, to put it another way, the terror that has engulfed the Middle East, Central Asia and other parts of the world for the past 50+ years could have been exterminated in its infancy if only the West had possessed the will to see past Neville Chamberlain-style diplomacy and determined instead to rip out the terror leaders and their capabilities root and stem. Add in a willingness to work with Israel rather than vilify it, and we might have already been living in Trump’s Golden Age for decades.
All it took to defeat terrorism was the iron will to destroy it.
Our terror opponents are anything but stupid. They have known all along that keeping Israel and the West alienated was key to their success, and they knew that the post-WWII order of the UN and the idea that all problems can be solved with sufficient diplomacy and concessions was an essential tool of their terror campaign. Yasser Arafat never wanted peace. He wanted an illusory desire for peace as diplomatic cover to drive Israel into the sea and yield terror across the globe.
So in the modern era, consider these impediments to achieving what the USA and Israel have achieved overnight:
1. The philosophies of the post WWII, "New World Order": endless diplomacy, endless concessions to terror, and an unwillingness to take kinetic action.
2. Leftwing antisemites who empower the terrorists (Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib, etc.)
3. Groypers who seek to drive a wedge in the Trump movement and its effective anti-terror policies (Candace, Tucker, Fuentes, etc.)
Nothing significant happens in the public informations square without money changing hands.
Let me repeat that: nothing significant happens in the public informations square without money changing hands.
Now comes the big question:
WHO IS PAYING FOR #1, #2 AND #3?????
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