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As independent journalist Tim Pool has pointed out, the reaction of the left and the normiecons to the US strikes on Iran is bizarre, even by their own admittedly low standards. The same TDS-demented loons who were screeching that Donald Trump is a ‘warmonger’ who ‘is starting WWIII’ are now hooting and jeering that he is ‘chickening out’. By their own arguments, this is crazy talk.
After all, if they really believe Trump is a crazed warmonger, this is the last thing they’d want to do. To put it into schoolyard-bullying terms, which is about all these cretins understand: if you’re trying to egg someone on to do something you know is incredibly stupid and dangerous, what do you do? Call them chicken. Mock them for not doing the stupid and dangerous thing.
This is exactly what the left and the normiecons are doing.
Mostly because they simply cannot, will not, admit that Trump has won again.
OK, we have a ceasefire with Iran’s depleted leaders rather than their total surrender. But we would be historically myopic not to see how the threat of destruction has resulted in behaviour modification. We would need a deep cynicism to not discern a better future for all those afflicted by Iranian power.
Or just bog-standard demented leftism. The same people who marched weekly, bellowing and screaming about 70,000 mostly Hamas combatants killed in over two years of fighting, said nothing when the Iranian regime murdered perhaps 40,000 of its own citizens in less than a month. Worse, they actively supported the murderous Iranian death cult.
Which, to damn them with faint praise, they’ve been doing for the last nearly three years. These are, after all, the people who openly valorised the Iranian regime and its terror proxies such as Hezbollah. The same Iranian regime that has sponsored deadly terror attacks in Australia.
Trump chose a nemesis that surely meets every definition of just war. Khamenei made misogyny basic to his rule. His regime denied homosexuality existed, while murdering more than 5000 gay men. His HHH axis – made up of Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis – targeted civilians in Israel and across the Gulf. Hamas made rape a weapon of war.
If the Iranian regime is not our enemy, we are no longer capable of having an enemy. Too much of the global left want Iran to represent some brave resistance to Western imperialism. The mullahs are not that.
And Trump, to the fury of the left and the normiecon ‘conservatives-in-name-only’, has taken this terror regime down at least 40 pegs. That’s how many of its top officials the strikes have killed. The leader of the Islamic death cult is, reportedly, a vegetable, if alive at all (his only ‘appearances’ of late have been obvious AI videos). This is a victory, no matter how desperately the legions of Trump-haters wish to deny it.
Speaking coarsely while carrying a little stick has resulted in the severe weakening of Iran’s power.
Trump has set back the cause of Iran’s sharia supremacy – the constitutional principle that Islamic law (sharia) has ultimate authority over all state laws, institutions and political decisions in the Islamic Republic. He did this while fighting a war with the goodwill of more Arab allies than any in US history. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pushed Trump to make war with Iran, framing the US-Israeli offensive as a “historic opportunity” to reshape the region […]
Trump has made a 47-year experiment in theocratic repression seem temporary, toppleable. No amount of UN resolutions and Obama-Biden nuclear deals had this effect. The loss of US military lives in pursuit of this transformational objective – a Middle East denuded of its chief terrorist exporter – is tiny. A Ballarat tradie who needs cheaper diesel may demur. I do feel his pain and have seen my superannuation fall. But, again, what price was worth paying to hasten the demise of Ali Khamenei?
Indeed, a whining normiecon made exactly the argument that ‘wiser heads’ had concluded that attacking Iran cost too high a price. To which I respond: WWII cost the Allies $4 trillion, 15 million dead, a continent in ruins and Britain its empire. Lucky for us they didn’t ‘weigh the costs’ of taking down evil.
Sure, the Iranian regime hasn’t been completely erased. The US learned that mistake in Iraq: wholesale erasing the entire edifice of the state only creates a power vacuum in which the worse slither in and seize control. It’s far better to do, as they did in WWII Germany, decapitate the regime and round up the worst evildoers, but otherwise leave the functionaries and bureaucrats to keep the machinery of state running.
Spin it anyway the legacy media normiecons want, the Iranian regime is tottering on legs of straw.
The regime’s own bureaucrats, who keep the wheels of the state turning, are surely questioning the wisdom of their political leaders. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps promised to safeguard a proud, nuclear-armed Iran. Instead, Trump has made them the organisers of human shields.
Bret Stephens at the New York Times imagined what lower-level officials in Tehran and Mashhad must be thinking: “Your economy: in even deeper crisis than it was before the war, with no turnaround in sight. Your most capable leaders: dead. Your own people: waiting for the war and the state of emergency to end so they can rise against you again.”
Like Harry Truman before him, Trump has taken the hard but necessary decision, over the carping criticism of the left.
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to the rebirth of Japan. That enemy went on to become one of the freest, wealthiest and closest allies America has ever enjoyed. This was the inauspicious but necessary beginning of a regional transformation. Trump has started his own – at a fraction of the civilian lives lost.
The left and the normiecons would rather die than admit that, though.
