Justice late still justice served in Iran

Smoke billows from the Iranian State Television headquarters after an Israeli missile strike.

Getting to watch the Israelis bomb the spit out of the despotic terrorist mullahs in Iran makes me glad I quit smoking.

I would have hated to miss this.

Because as you, my loyal readers will recall from my probably too frequent retellings, it was the duo of Jimmy Carter and the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran that turned this Ozark-bred third generation Rooseveltian Democrat into a rock-ribbed Reagan Republican back in my junior year of high school. So frankly, I’ve been nearly giddy watching Israel and the United States illustrate to Iran that “no, you lunatics will not possess a nuclear weapon” really does, in fact, mean “no.”

It was the waning days of 1979 and into 1980 that Iranian student protesters swarmed the US embassy in Tehran, holding 52 American hostages eventually for more than a year. They were days of malaise, incompetence, lack of direction and shame – all the hallmarks that would become the guiding lights of today’s Democrat party leadership. Dark times, but they opened my eyes.

I was such a nerd In high school that the first time I ever cut class was that day in April 1980 when the bled-down U.S. military – with mechanical attrition reducing their number of helicopters, waited two hours idling in the Iranian desert waiting for Carter to make a decision to abort or not. The delay forced one of those helicopters to have to refuel before everybody skeddadled for home. In a dust storm the chopper flew into the back of a C130 full of fuel, killing eight American service members and putting a rotten cherry on top of Carter’s whole Iranian failure. The peanut farmer president would hem and haw and wring his hands for another seven months before Americans threw him out in favor of Reagan. The Iranians turned the hostages loose within hours of The Gipper becoming president because they thought he was crazy enough to go to war with them.

Bolstered eventually by the Iran-Contra scandal with the end of the Reagan years, Iran set about a course in the late 1980s of expanding a terror network that would eventually cost the lives of 220 U.S. Marines in Beruit, Lebanon in 1983, the handiwork of Iran puppet Hezbollah, which would also bomb the Israeli embassy and AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aries, Argentina. Iran would bridge the Shi’a/Sunni divide with Hamas and Palestenian Islamic Jihad for attacks on Israel in Gaza and the West Bank, including the horrific October 7, 2023, slaughter of Israeli civilians. Iran would arm, fund and train Houthi Rebels in Yemen for attacks on Saudi Arabia.

Basically, with the exception of the 9/11 attacks and recent incursions by Russia, anywhere civilization found itself under siege for the past 40 years, the incident carried Iran’s fingerprints.

So, despite the sadness of knowing that a lot of innocent Iranian civilians not connected to or complicit in the radical Islamic agenda of their leaders will perish as a result, the unleashing of the Israeli war dogs on the Iranian bullies who’ve been begging for destruction for nearly 50 years has brought great satisfaction indeed. We should have no pause in cheering on the destruction of the maniacal caste which for five decades has called for our murder and made good upon it as often as they could. Death to America, death to the Jews. As Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton recently said: When someone tells you they’re going to murder you, believe them.

How ironic, then, that pampered white liberal Americans with literally nothing to complain about protested in the streets against the very concept of President Donald Trump, all the while the president busied himself honoring the U.S. Army and coaching the destruction of America’s most immediately dangerous foreign threat. And he did so without so much as a scratch on any American; merely giving support to those most inspired and motivated to carry it out.

Israel’s attack on Iran and it’s long term benefit to the world even stole the thunder of the petty street whining in the U.S., where one protester actually carried a sign that read “If Kamala had won, we’d all be having brunch right now.”

First World problems, anyone?

Hurray for Israel. Hurray for President Trump, and hurray for the gelding of Iran – albeit decades too late.