Playing Chess with Crazies

Time to call check mate

Photo by imam hassan. We Won’t Hurt You

I’ve been a staunch republican conservative since I watched Ronald Reagan at the Republican National Convention on July 17, 1980. That’s the moment when I realized I believed in common sense. One of my worst nightmares is to wake up some morning and realize I had been infected and reverted to not thinking for myself again.

So, the following words are going to throw a lot of you off.

I don’t like how the Iran war is going.

I’m 100% supportive of Trump preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons. No other president had the cajónes to do what the world knows needed to be done. Past presidents wanted to win reelections and were weak in taking decisive action. They all did the Iranian dance. Pretended they were trying. And they all got played.

Donald Trump is being played.

This “war” revealed so much more than trying to prevent fanatics from building nuclear bombs. It revealed the Iranian religious zealots are a very astute and calculating bunch. Much smarter than I would have ever given them credit for. Iranians are masterful manipulators.

In a couple years, Trump will fade into the memory books. All those who have made Trump hating part of their daily routine, will have to redirect that loathing to something else. Trump doesn’t have to worry about another election, but he does have to worry about not handing the next two elections cycles over to the democrats. That includes the rising communist movement.

If democrats win, the Iranians will restart their nuclear program, and Americans can begin to relive what Spain recently got a taste of during our own Biden border fiasco.

The Iranians know it’s imperative to ride out the bombing and endure the financial hardship no matter how much it hurts. The alternative isn’t good. They’ve had their way for nearly half a century and have been just cocky enough to think as long as they played the world while building up their arsenal, they were untouchable. Even the massive slaughter and executions of its people didn’t raise the ire enough for the world to step up. The Pope leaned their way.

Then along came Trump.

Just like most of you, we know the Iranians strategically stretched things out. They’re using our own country against us. Some republicans are siding with democrats. Iran is loving it. They’re using our media as their personal propaganda machine.

Having no idea what’s going on behind the scenes, what we do know is making me nuts. Trump initially said it was going to be an excursion of four to five weeks. Now it’s six months. I give it to those crazy mullahs. They have “negotiations” down to a science.

How much more bombing will convince the Iranian “leaders” to come to the table? I personally think Trump can turn Iran into rubble and the lunatics won’t budge. Just like Hamas. They’re all cut from the same keffiyeh. Their hate for America is in their DNA. They don’t care what your personal beliefs are about anything. They want ALL of us dead.

Maybe good things are going on behind the scenes, but Trump better hurry up with whatever that might be. And I DON’T EVER want to see boots on the ground. Not in this fight.

I also don’t like the amount of munitions we’ve used for this “skirmish.” Not just the cost but what it’s done to our stockpiles. I hope it hasn’t placed us in a weakened condition where some other nation(s) decide to test us. Again, I have no way of knowing where we stand but you can be sure the Chinese, Russia and others are keeping a running tally of how many bombs exploded.

The other thing we learned; the world is a bunch of cowards.

Europe allowed TDS to infect their decisions. Denying the use of airspace and bases for what reason? Didn’t want to get on Iran’s bad side? Or just slap Trump around a bit? Israel is about the size of New Jersey and has more courage than all of Europe combined. Of course, Israel has the most to lose and the most to gain as well. Based on Europe’s behavior and lack of support, I wonder if it’s also antisemitic? After all, Iran was only going to blow up Isreal. Right, they would never think of holding Europe hostage dangling nuclear weapons.

European leaders do a lot of talking and chest puffing but stare at the floor, step back and let Daddy do all the hard work. They say it’s Trump’s war, but inwardly happy as heck having Iran taken off the terrorist table. And it didn’t cost them a thing. You go girls.

It’s so much easier to do nothing.

The short of it, Trump, get your business done and off the pot. Your cabinet and military are loaded with smart people. If it were not for a possible peace deal pending with Hamas, likely another stall tactic, I would say release the Kraken and let Israel finish it.

As I was submitting this column, Trump called for another pause for more negotiations.

At this point I don’t have a lot of faith but I’m an optimist and will keep my fingers crossed.