I sense some cultist agitation forthcoming.
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/11/president-trump-is-bold-brave-and-right-on-the-iran-war/
Iran has been a mortal enemy of the United States in the 47 years since its Islamic Revolution of 1979. The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini began his theocratic dictatorship by imprisoning 52 Americans including the U.S. Ambassador to Iran from November 4, 1979, until President Reagan took office at noon on January 20, 1981. The Ayatollah Khomeini repeatedly led crowds in chants of "Death to America," which he called the "Great Satan." Chants of "Death to America" and America is the "Great Satan" have been made repeatedly down to the present day by all of Khomeini's successors. Iran has financed proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis in Yemen who have attacked American allies in the Middle East and who are trying to export Iran's theocratic revolution to Saudi Arabia and Palestine, while closing both the Strait of Hormuz, in the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Bab-El Mandeb, in the Red Sea, to international maritime oil and natural gas trading thus causing a global economic crisis.
There is an appreciable and unacceptable possibility that if Iran had a nuclear bomb, it would first use it on Israel and then on the United States. Although the atheistic Soviet Union and Red China have been deterred by fear of a U.S. nuclear counterstrike, the theocrats who rule Tehran might not be. They might think that all who die in a jihad holy war to spread Shiite Islam would go straight to heaven. If Iran lacked an intercontinental ballistic missile that could penetrate U.S. air defenses, it might put such bombs on boats, sail them to the harbors of New York City and San Francisco, and detonate them in those U.S. harbors, massacring millions of American civilians.
Six U.S. Presidents since 1979—Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden—have done nothing meaningful to curtail Iran's ambition to destroy what it sees as the U.S.'s atheistic and materialistic culture. None of them have treated Iran as the mortal and dangerous enemy that it is. Like the French democracy in the 1930's, which failed effectively to deal with Adolf Hitler building up the Nazi military that would crush the French army and conquer France in 1940, Americans for 47 years have ignored Iran's desire to bring death and destruction to our shores by building nuclear bombs.
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/11/president-trump-is-bold-brave-and-right-on-the-iran-war/
Iran has been a mortal enemy of the United States in the 47 years since its Islamic Revolution of 1979. The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini began his theocratic dictatorship by imprisoning 52 Americans including the U.S. Ambassador to Iran from November 4, 1979, until President Reagan took office at noon on January 20, 1981. The Ayatollah Khomeini repeatedly led crowds in chants of "Death to America," which he called the "Great Satan." Chants of "Death to America" and America is the "Great Satan" have been made repeatedly down to the present day by all of Khomeini's successors. Iran has financed proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis in Yemen who have attacked American allies in the Middle East and who are trying to export Iran's theocratic revolution to Saudi Arabia and Palestine, while closing both the Strait of Hormuz, in the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Bab-El Mandeb, in the Red Sea, to international maritime oil and natural gas trading thus causing a global economic crisis.
There is an appreciable and unacceptable possibility that if Iran had a nuclear bomb, it would first use it on Israel and then on the United States. Although the atheistic Soviet Union and Red China have been deterred by fear of a U.S. nuclear counterstrike, the theocrats who rule Tehran might not be. They might think that all who die in a jihad holy war to spread Shiite Islam would go straight to heaven. If Iran lacked an intercontinental ballistic missile that could penetrate U.S. air defenses, it might put such bombs on boats, sail them to the harbors of New York City and San Francisco, and detonate them in those U.S. harbors, massacring millions of American civilians.
Six U.S. Presidents since 1979—Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden—have done nothing meaningful to curtail Iran's ambition to destroy what it sees as the U.S.'s atheistic and materialistic culture. None of them have treated Iran as the mortal and dangerous enemy that it is. Like the French democracy in the 1930's, which failed effectively to deal with Adolf Hitler building up the Nazi military that would crush the French army and conquer France in 1940, Americans for 47 years have ignored Iran's desire to bring death and destruction to our shores by building nuclear bombs.
