The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun › American Greatness
Roger Kimball
In my column last week about the situation in Iran (“The Fog of Prewar in Iran”), I wrote:
Many commentators, noting Trump’s oft-proclaimed desire for “peace on earth,” believe he has paused to see if negotiations with Iran might end the slaughter. I doubt it. Trump’s desire for peace is perfectly genuine. But I note that the last time he said he wanted “peace on earth” was when he was asked whether he had any New Year’s resolutions just a couple of weeks ago. That was mere hours before he unleashed hell against the Venezuelan tyrant Nicolás Maduro, extracting him and his wife from their heavily fortified compound in Caracas and whisking them to New York in a stunning and perfectly executed special operations raid.
I opined that the “ticking sound you hear is not the world clock. It is the countdown to Iran’s liberation.” I added that we should hope that the liberation “encompasses not just the obliteration of that horrible Islamist regime but also the unraveling and supersession of radical Islam itself … a perverted, misogynistic, and death-embracing ideology masquerading as a religion.”
I would like to repeat and underscore that hope. I noted last week that estimates of those massacred by the theocratic Iranian regime went as high as 50,000 or even 100,000 people. A couple of weeks ago, President Trump assured the Iranian people that “help is on the way.” And so it is. What Trump describes as a “massive armada” has coalesced in the waters around Iran, with more military assets arriving daily. The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s butcher-in-chief, has reportedly moved into a hardened underground bunker. He is wise to do so, though he doubtless remembers the fate of his super-hardened underground atom-bomb-making facility in June.
As I noted at the time, “Trump’s attack was breathtakingly robust. More than a dozen 30,000-pound ‘bunker-buster bombs’ and a passel of submarine-launched cruise missiles smashed into their targets. That’s a big wallop.”
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