Graduated Marine boot camp in July 1983. Furious about what happened to our Marines. I like what you have written. And it is the tip of the spear in harms way that protects us and our families. God bless them and do it right.
Great insights. Some nonsensical comments. Trump actually is protecting your children. Wars are ugly but inevitable. Always have been. These peaceniks think they can just sit back, smoke pot and say “peace, peace.” The same people who run San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, etc.
Iran has been a threat from the time Muslims created it by conquering Persia in the 6th century and forcing the Zoroastrians to convert to Islam. If that wasn’t “colonialism,” IDK what is, certainly not Israel vs. “Palestine”
I think this is a very cogent view. I too am a Boomer, who is SICK of these forever wars. Yes the Bushes burned this country badly. As you very clearly stated, we are in it now, so we must back the President for the sake of our troops. All I do these days is pray. It's all I can do. I voted for Trump each of the last three times, because he promised no more forever foreign wars, but here we are. I pray that God will protect those that protect us. Amen.
This war has been going on since 1979. Tehran Embassy 1979, Beirut Embassy 1983, Beirut Marine Barracks 1983, IEDs in Iraq, numerous attacks on our positions throughout the Middle East, multiple kidnappings, murders, and assassination attempts, 10/7/23, etc. As to whether or not this war could be avoided, they lead cheers of ‘death to America’ nearly every morning, they’re building nukes, attacking our allies, using negotiation only to gain a better attack position, etc. We’d kicked the can down the road to the end of the road. It is necessary. May God grant victory to our arms and help us find a just peace after victory.
Amen, Peachy! No one else had both cajónes and strategy to do this well. I am cautiously optimistic about this too. Iran had to be dealt with. I remember looking at my preteen sons when Obama made that asinine deal thinking, in 10-15 years my children could literally be paying the price for this guy's folly. If any president were to do this, it's Trump because he hates war too. However, he has been talking about bombing the sh$& out of them if they stepped too far out of line but resisted pressure to engage in his first term. I think he prepared for a possibility and when he saw an opportunity after giving them way too many opportunities to stand down, he went for it. I'm definitely praying for a quick success and for those whose lives are in danger and lost.
As a Boomer the same age as the president and who has spent 3 years of his life in two different war zones (Vietnam and Afghanistan) I see Trump's decision as an easy one to make. Thanks to Bush and Obama I have a Brother-in-law and a Son-in-law on 100% disability from Iraq and the weapons Iran was providing. Taking out the Mullahs is a long awaited blessing.
Excellent analysis! And I come down the same way, I don’t know that I would have done this, or done it in this way, but once Trump promised “help is on the way!”, I wanted him to follow through, because the Iranian people were already betrayed once by Obama, and what does a country have to do to get America to help in their struggle for freedom?
And I will say, the sheer unbridled joy of Iranians doing the Trump dance to YMCA is one of the happiest and heart warming things I have seen in a long long time. The Iranian people are wonderful, I look forward to the happy future where we and Iran are fast friends.
Go Girl!!! This Boomer is right on board with you. It was do or die and I am thankful President Trump was the one to take the leap. And you summed it up beautifully!!! Risks vs. Rewards. I have been ex-communicated from my children, granchildren and friends but I would die on this hill too. We will continue to pray for wisdom for all the leaders of the world. Jesus Christ, Lion of Judah protect your people.
Excellent article Peachy. “ Iran will not stop until they are stopped”. Over decades they have proven this. We’re in it, we need to get in, stop the Iranian Mullah threat, then get out & let Iran figure it out. China is a threat to America, stopping their ability to buy oil cheap from Iran serves the US interests. Cutting off Iran’s ability to have N weapons serves the world’s interests. I believe Rubio / Hegseth when they say this is not Iraq, not a forever war. It would not serve the R’s future political interests to allow an occupation to happen.
My GenX contemporaries Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly, both skeptics of Trump’s regime-change attack on Iran, haven’t referenced our own generational experience of watching the 1980 American hostage crisis on TV as children every night at 10:30 with Ted Koppel or Peter Jennings and its effect on them and on us. Aside from being subject to seeing our fellow Americans helplessly suffering, blindfolded, and held captive for 444 days, the economic effects of the Iranian Revolution included pushing effective gas prices to $12-15 ga. (1980 avg. gas $1.25 = 2026 $6 plus avg. 1980 MPG of 10-15 MPG) and inflation to 15% during the worst inflationary period of the 20th Century, which began a decade earlier at the beginning of the 1970s. My mother was forced into the workforce two years later because of the effects of Iranian Revolution, and my parents were forced to get rid of their huge 1968 Impala for a much lighter, fuel-efficient car, as most of the country did after 1980. Fuel-efficient Honda and Toyota cars began replacing American cars after 1980. The effects of what happened in Iran were revolutionary in the US too. At the least, with both Venezuela and Iran back online after decades of sanctions, Trump may also leave us with $1.50 gas prices and $50 winter home heating bills in a few years. Even Millennials are unaware of the effects of 1979 and 1980. The full picture is not clear without it.
You are absolutely right about one thing -- Trump is the only one who could sit in that seat and actually get this done. He's the only one willing to take the risk that it blows up. Maybe that's because he can't imagine not winning, but still. This was our one chance to take out those scumbags and make the Middle East great again. May God reward the big balls.
Excellent article, thank you kindly. Being Jewish and having parents survive WWII in Europe, of course gives me a sense of urgency that Israel must never perish! Reagan and Trump will be remembered as the lions that kept Israel free and a safe haven for Jews.
Graduated Marine boot camp in July 1983. Furious about what happened to our Marines. I like what you have written. And it is the tip of the spear in harms way that protects us and our families. God bless them and do it right.
Great insights. Some nonsensical comments. Trump actually is protecting your children. Wars are ugly but inevitable. Always have been. These peaceniks think they can just sit back, smoke pot and say “peace, peace.” The same people who run San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, etc.
I’m with Peachy on this.
Iran has been a threat from the time Muslims created it by conquering Persia in the 6th century and forcing the Zoroastrians to convert to Islam. If that wasn’t “colonialism,” IDK what is, certainly not Israel vs. “Palestine”
Well said PK. I think you're probably right. I'm with you. Lots of praying too. Forwarding.
I think this is a very cogent view. I too am a Boomer, who is SICK of these forever wars. Yes the Bushes burned this country badly. As you very clearly stated, we are in it now, so we must back the President for the sake of our troops. All I do these days is pray. It's all I can do. I voted for Trump each of the last three times, because he promised no more forever foreign wars, but here we are. I pray that God will protect those that protect us. Amen.
This war has been going on since 1979. Tehran Embassy 1979, Beirut Embassy 1983, Beirut Marine Barracks 1983, IEDs in Iraq, numerous attacks on our positions throughout the Middle East, multiple kidnappings, murders, and assassination attempts, 10/7/23, etc. As to whether or not this war could be avoided, they lead cheers of ‘death to America’ nearly every morning, they’re building nukes, attacking our allies, using negotiation only to gain a better attack position, etc. We’d kicked the can down the road to the end of the road. It is necessary. May God grant victory to our arms and help us find a just peace after victory.
Amen, Peachy! No one else had both cajónes and strategy to do this well. I am cautiously optimistic about this too. Iran had to be dealt with. I remember looking at my preteen sons when Obama made that asinine deal thinking, in 10-15 years my children could literally be paying the price for this guy's folly. If any president were to do this, it's Trump because he hates war too. However, he has been talking about bombing the sh$& out of them if they stepped too far out of line but resisted pressure to engage in his first term. I think he prepared for a possibility and when he saw an opportunity after giving them way too many opportunities to stand down, he went for it. I'm definitely praying for a quick success and for those whose lives are in danger and lost.
As a Boomer the same age as the president and who has spent 3 years of his life in two different war zones (Vietnam and Afghanistan) I see Trump's decision as an easy one to make. Thanks to Bush and Obama I have a Brother-in-law and a Son-in-law on 100% disability from Iraq and the weapons Iran was providing. Taking out the Mullahs is a long awaited blessing.
Excellent analysis! And I come down the same way, I don’t know that I would have done this, or done it in this way, but once Trump promised “help is on the way!”, I wanted him to follow through, because the Iranian people were already betrayed once by Obama, and what does a country have to do to get America to help in their struggle for freedom?
And I will say, the sheer unbridled joy of Iranians doing the Trump dance to YMCA is one of the happiest and heart warming things I have seen in a long long time. The Iranian people are wonderful, I look forward to the happy future where we and Iran are fast friends.
Amen, Peachy. Thank you for expressing so well what so many rational Americans are silently thinking, if not articulating it nearly so well.
Go Girl!!! This Boomer is right on board with you. It was do or die and I am thankful President Trump was the one to take the leap. And you summed it up beautifully!!! Risks vs. Rewards. I have been ex-communicated from my children, granchildren and friends but I would die on this hill too. We will continue to pray for wisdom for all the leaders of the world. Jesus Christ, Lion of Judah protect your people.
Excellent article Peachy. “ Iran will not stop until they are stopped”. Over decades they have proven this. We’re in it, we need to get in, stop the Iranian Mullah threat, then get out & let Iran figure it out. China is a threat to America, stopping their ability to buy oil cheap from Iran serves the US interests. Cutting off Iran’s ability to have N weapons serves the world’s interests. I believe Rubio / Hegseth when they say this is not Iraq, not a forever war. It would not serve the R’s future political interests to allow an occupation to happen.
You took the words out of my slow brain exactly. Thanks to Peachy for this essay and to you for speaking clearly the things I've been thinking.
My GenX contemporaries Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly, both skeptics of Trump’s regime-change attack on Iran, haven’t referenced our own generational experience of watching the 1980 American hostage crisis on TV as children every night at 10:30 with Ted Koppel or Peter Jennings and its effect on them and on us. Aside from being subject to seeing our fellow Americans helplessly suffering, blindfolded, and held captive for 444 days, the economic effects of the Iranian Revolution included pushing effective gas prices to $12-15 ga. (1980 avg. gas $1.25 = 2026 $6 plus avg. 1980 MPG of 10-15 MPG) and inflation to 15% during the worst inflationary period of the 20th Century, which began a decade earlier at the beginning of the 1970s. My mother was forced into the workforce two years later because of the effects of Iranian Revolution, and my parents were forced to get rid of their huge 1968 Impala for a much lighter, fuel-efficient car, as most of the country did after 1980. Fuel-efficient Honda and Toyota cars began replacing American cars after 1980. The effects of what happened in Iran were revolutionary in the US too. At the least, with both Venezuela and Iran back online after decades of sanctions, Trump may also leave us with $1.50 gas prices and $50 winter home heating bills in a few years. Even Millennials are unaware of the effects of 1979 and 1980. The full picture is not clear without it.
You are absolutely right about one thing -- Trump is the only one who could sit in that seat and actually get this done. He's the only one willing to take the risk that it blows up. Maybe that's because he can't imagine not winning, but still. This was our one chance to take out those scumbags and make the Middle East great again. May God reward the big balls.
Excellent article, thank you kindly. Being Jewish and having parents survive WWII in Europe, of course gives me a sense of urgency that Israel must never perish! Reagan and Trump will be remembered as the lions that kept Israel free and a safe haven for Jews.
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