The Ceasefire That Let the Devil Breathe

The significant difference between most Americans and the ideological far-Left is that most Americans can disagree on any given issue and not feel obligated to despise the person with whom they disagree. Many times, those who are not on the lunatic fringe can disagree and still actually like, respect, and even support one another. And so it is that I disagree with President Trump on his easing off the Iranian mullahs without achieving unconditional surrender.

To be clear, I am not a supporter of gratuitous war; of optional, nation-building, regime-change conflicts that put American military personnel in harm's way for politically opportune purposes. I believe the US military has been abused and misused in contemporary times, especially at the hands of globalists and political charlatans. The US military should only be employed to confront direct threats to the United States and the vanquishment of true evil.

But I argue that both cases exist in the mullahs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a nation that, for 47 years, has been allowed to terrorize its rightful citizenry, threaten its neighboring countries, and facilitate terrorist organizations around the world. These Islamofascists have targeted and killed US military personnel and assets from the very start, constituting a direct threat to the United States. And the atrocities they commit against the Persian-Iranian people each and every day validate the claim that they are born of evil and worthy of the full wrath of the free world.

As a case in point, consider this story following what the Trump administration is calling a “complete victory.” Rachel Wolf reports:

“Iranians are experiencing internal turmoil as authorities intensify a domestic security crackdown following the 12-day war in which three major nuclear sites were effectively destroyed. There have been reports of mass arrests and executions in the country…Authorities in Iran began the crackdown following Israel’s June 13 airstrikes. It started with widespread arrests and an intensified street presence…”

This certainly doesn’t sound like a “complete victory,” not when one of the stated goals during the military campaign was “unconditional surrender. And this wasn’t an isolated incident.

After the ceasefire (which to the Iranian mullahs is really nothing more than a hudna), the chief Islamofascist, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged from his secret hole after cowering like a frightened rat for twelve days and, with his usual defiance, stated:

“The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America’s face. This action can be repeated in the future…Should any aggression occur, the enemy will definitely pay a heavy price.”

Again, do those sound like the words of a vanquished leader, of a leader who has been brought to his knees by a superior fighting force? I certainly don’t see those words in that light.

The mullahs of Iran are not on par with the tinpot dictators of the previous US regime-change activities in the region. They are not the hollow men, the likes of Bashar Assad, Muammar Gaddafi, or Saddam Hussein, as awful as those despots were. The mullahs of Iran are in a class that makes them a major player in an emerging Axis that represents authoritarian and genocidal oppression, and which is completely copacetic with using force—in any manner that needs to be—to achieve their goals.

The countries of this Axis—Iran, communist China, Russia, and North Korea—think nothing of eliminating political opposition, erasing whole demographics of their o