There Is No Such Thing As A Deal With Iran

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There Is No Such Thing As A Deal With Iran

We did not assemble the greatest armada the world has known to write Iran a traffic ticket.

Michael C. Hurley | May 19, 2026

A wildly outmatched adversary is “obliterated” by American military power yet remains stubbornly unbowed. Sound familiar?

Nixon’s deal with the North Vietnamese for “Peace with Honor” was little more than a rhetorical fig-leaf to mask our ignominious retreat and the chaos that followed. The “deal” that Nixon brokered required the communists to pull out of Laos and Cambodia. They did no such thing. Once the Yanks were gone, both countries fell to communist control along with the rest of Vietnam by 1975. Two million Cambodians died in Pol Pot’s killing fields between 1975 and 1979. So much for peace. So much for honor.

All of the points that Donald Trump repeats ad nauseam today about the scale of the American “victory” in Iran—that we have completely destroyed their navy and air force and air defenses—were equally true of Vietnam for the most of that conflict, and yet the Vietnam War ended in defeat for America, thinly disguised by an ostensible “deal.” You’ll forgive me if today I’m having feelings of déjà vu.

First, let’s be honest with ourselves: no one in the Trump administration expected six months ago to be talking about Iran, today. After Operation Midnight Hammer, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced, on June 24, 2025, that American forces had “conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program.” Webster’s defines the word “obliterate” to mean “to remove from existence, destroy utterly all trace, indication, or significance of.” Trump protested reports that cast doubt on the finality of this obliteration by denying, repeatedly, that Iran retained the capacity to produce a nuclear weapon and insisting that they could not recover that capacity for “years.” This remained the official position of the White House for months. Then came Mr. Trump’s 3 a.m. post on Truth Social on January 2, 2026.

Iran had of course recently threatened protestors who had taken to the streets in the wake of deteriorating conditions in that country, to which Mr. Trump replied: “If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters … the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”

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We did not assemble the greatest armada the world has known to write Iran a traffic ticket. Our president made a promise to rescue the Iranian people, and that promise must mean something if America is to mean something. No matter what Pete Hegseth says, we set out to defeat the regime. Having undertaken that ostensible goal, if we now leave them in power, we will have made them immeasurably stronger in the eyes of their terrified citizens and the world.

The Iranian theocracy is not a government but a death cult bent on destroying the Jews and the west. We have seen their ilk before. We did not stop 100 miles from Berlin to offer Hitler a “deal.” There is no such thing as a deal with death, and there is no such thing as a deal with Iran. Finish what you started, Mr. President.

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There is no victory in Iran.  That is nonsense.  We sestroyed 90%+ of their military stores, all can be replaced in rather short timeframes.

Hitler launched WWII in Europe with 49.7 million people in September, 1939.  Iran has nearly double the population at 92 million.  Trump is not willing to kill the enemy, kill them in large enough numbers to effectuate a winning outcome.  So, this war was lost before it was started.  Just one more big waste of US treasury, something pukes in Washington are good at doing.

Two of the greatest military leaders of all time, Gen George Patton and Admiral William Halsey had one basic tenet perfectly right with their midset, KILL THE ENEMY.  And with Halsey, he fully supported destroying the Japanese civilian population.  And he was right.  Trump has accomplished nothing.

He is surrounded by Obama generals.  Obama purged 4,500 senior officers from the military when he took office.  All the folks that rose up were his liberal syncophants, and Trump surrounded himself with these clowns in his 1st term and has never addressed the issue since.  He kept 1,400 Obama appointees in positions for over one year his first term.  How many Biden appointees are still roaming around, attempting to undermine this administration?  How many?

Trump failed, and now he wants a deal.  They will just stall until the primaries.  He should have leveled Iran, killing all the people in cities highly populated with IRGC.  They are the problem, will remain the problem, and will rebuild.  They need to be destroyed, or all of what Trump done was a waste of time and money.