Trump: The Man Who Stepped Into The Breach

We are on day three of President Trump’s military operation in Iran.

It’s the most courageous military decision of my lifetime, and we are kicking a**. The United States military and the Israeli military, working in tandem, are kicking the hell out of the Iranian government.

How is Iran planning to fight back? They have friends. They’re counting on pathetic, mewling Europeans and the ridiculous, sad sack Democrats who just hate Trump and don’t care about America winning.

But most of all, they’re counting on vicious, parasitical horseshoe right-wing isolationists to somehow convince the president to leave the battlefield. (If you wish to follow a movement led by closeted and not-so-closeted homosexuals, then I guess you could do that. Or perhaps these people are worth ignoring, because President Trump’s strength here has truly exposed the peddlers of horsesh*t on all sides).

Typically, there are a few reasons why you pursue military actions directed at the top of a regime. One is that there’s a direct attack from that regime upon you.

Did Iran attack us? The answer is that since 1979, the number of American deaths that have been caused by Iran and by its proxy terrorist groups amounts to at least 1,000 dead, plus a couple of attempted assassinations on the president of the United States.

We are talking about military personnel. We are talking about diplomats. If you include Afghanistan, where Iran was shipping IEDs into Afghanistan to help the Taliban, you’re talking about at least 1,500 deaths.

But if you go all the way back to 1979, when the ayatollahs took over during the Iranian Revolution, the first thing that students did was to take American hostages at the embassy and hold them for over 400 days. Then, in 1983, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah attacked the U.S. embassy and the Marine barracks in Lebanon. The total dead in those two attacks alone: 258.

Moving forward to 1988, the harassment of American shipping in the waterways around Iran led the United States to sink the entire Iranian navy in Operation Praying Mantis. Then, throughout the 1990s, Iran pursued a nuclear weapon. They began spreading their terror tentacles all over the Middle East by building up their terror proxy groups.

The United States at that point had a dual containment policy toward Iran and Iraq, because Iraq was run by the tyrant Saddam Hussein, and Iran was being run by the ayatollahs. They hated one another. They engaged in a decade-long war in the 1980s in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed. The United States’ policy was to keep both of those contained.

It was only semi-successful. In 1996, the bombing of the Khobar Towers by the Iranian-supported Hezbollah in Saudi Arabia killed 19 Americans. In 2000, the bombing of the USS Cole off of Yemen by Al-Qaeda, supported largely by Iran, killed 17, and then, of course, from 2003 to 2011, after the breakdown of the Iraqi government after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iranian-backed militias took over large swaths of Iraq, or at least resisted American rule of Iraq, and killed somewhere between 600 and 1100 American soldiers.

Meanwhile, Iran was seeking nuclear weapons, spreading its terror tentacles to Lebanon, to Syria, to Gaza, which culminated on October 7, 2023, when Hamas, an Iranian-sponsored terror group, killed 1,200 Israeli citizens, took 250 hostage, and prompted a seven-front war on Israel, which ended with Israel basically destroying many of the proxy arms of the Iranian government.

All of that finally culminated with President Trump in 2025. You’ll recall the 12-day war when there was a direct attack by the Israelis on the Iranians following multiple rounds of missiles shot by Iran directly at Israel. Israel went in to try to take out their nuclear facilities as well as their ballistic missile facilities. In 12 days, Israel established air dominance and virtually destroyed the entire air defense system of Iran. At the end, President Trump authorized Operation Midnight Hammer to strike the Fordow nuclear facility and take out their nuclear weapons.

Since 1979, Iran has been unendingly, unceasingly antagonistic toward the United States and its allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain.

Iran is a threat to civilization. This is a point that President Trump made, declaring, “They have waged war against civilization itself.”

One of the beautiful things about being an isolationist is that you always get the counterfactual on your side. You always get to say a military intervention “went wrong.” But there are many counterfactuals in which actual preemptive war-making might have stopped true genocidal intent. There are so many instances of this throughout history that it boggles the mind.

Whether you’re talking about the rise of the Russian revolutionaries in the aftermath of the fall of the czar in 1917, what would have happened if the West had had the courage to stop the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia? A totally different map for an entire century; World War II doesn’t happen. What would have happened if the West had had the strength to stop the rearmament of Hitler? What would have happened if the West had taken out Osama bin Laden in the aftermath of the USS Cole instead of ignoring the threat?

A targeted action can provide a serious upside and limited downside. That is the counterfactual that we should be looking at right now. The only counterfactual is not Iraq or Vietnam. Sometimes there are other counterfactuals to examine as well.

That is what President Trump was saying yesterday. He said that the goal here is to ensure security for generations.

Trump is stepping into the breach. He is smartly recognizing opportunity when it arises, and he is taking strong steps to protect America’s future and not only the future of our allies, but the future of the globe.

That’s because if the United States does nothing after the president draws a red line, if Iran continues to rebuild its facilities, if Iran continues to act as the linkage, both in terms of oil and weaponry between China and Russia, the chances that America’s enemies go on the offensive are so much higher than if they look at America and realize you don’t screw around with the president of the United States.

Step one in this process was to prevent the external threats from the regime, and decapitating the regime is a great way to do that. The second step is the replacement of the regime. It is not the job of the United States to pick the next Iranian government. It’s up to the Iranian people to pick their leader.

But when we talk about the spread of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, it turns out that Iran exporting its ideology all over the world is a threat that our president understands.

And unlike his predecessors, he acted on it.