Every sentient being knew going into
the war with Iran that the extraordinarily difficult aspect of it would be to
somehow effect positive regime change without inserting large numbers of ground
troops into the theater. The U.S., frankly, has been utterly-- if not
disastrously-- ineffective in effecting positive regime change/nation building
since the end of World War II. This is because neither its leaders nor its
citizens have had the stomach for a long-term conflict, no matter the reason or
possible result.
In the modern terrorist/jihadi world,
conflict—no matter how legitimate and necessary-- has been further complicated
by the Muslim world’s leaders placing much of their missile, drone, and
other weapons under schools, hospitals, and mosques, knowing we won’t bomb
these institutions. Or that, if we do, the mainstream media will immediately
brand us as the bad guys and incessantly show weeping mothers and heartbroken
spouses until the conflict is ended.
Given
this acquiescence to the Satanic, evil cannot be defeated. Ever. Period. Which
in turn guarantees a hell on earth, with repression, rape, slavery,
hopelessness, etc., for those in the repressive states, and eventually to
everyone else.
In
light of this, how do we win? Can we win? Is it better to allow the
world’s dark and depraved tyrants to prevail, with all that entails for
humanity until the sun expires?
Or,
not unlike Truman deciding to use nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to
avoid the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans, do we bomb these
locations anyway? This is a serious question. A brutally, heinously serious
one. One that guts me. Dear God, I don’t wish for myself or my family—or
yours-- to be under those schools or hospitals.
But,
on balance, I see no other choice. Do you?
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