Well
Sucks to be a mullah right now
1983: proxies for the Iranian mullahs car-bomb the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. 17 American killed.
1983: proxies for the Iranian mullahs car-bomb the US Marine barracks in Lebanon. 241 US servicemen killed.
1984: proxies for the Iranian mullahs kidnap the CIA station chief in Lebanon, and spend 15 months torturing him — let me rephrase that: they tortured this man with electric drills, hammers, electricity, pliers, and anything else they thought of; and in-between torture sessions he was locked in a cage too small to stand, and too narrow to lay down for a year and three months. He was reduced to an animal, mind gone, gibbering in terror, before his heart finally gave out under torture. We know this, because the Iranian proxies sent us video recordings of the torture sessions.
1984: proxies for the Iranian mullahs hi-jacked aeroplanes, singled out American passengers, and murdered them.
1988: proxies for the Iranian mullahs kidnapped the head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Lebanon — an American — and tortured him. They sent us a video of his murder via slow strangulation when they got bored with the torture.
1996 to 1998: proxies for the Iranian mullahs car-bombed US Airforce housing in Saudi Arabia, and United States embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing Americans.
2003 to 2011: the mullahs set up a factory making Explosively-Formed Penetrators of a Russian design, and trained militiamen in their use for the specific purpose of attacking US servicemembers in Iraq. They succeeded in killing or injuring several hundred US troops with these EFPs.
The mullahs have attempted attacks inside America’s border — the most famous of which being the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie in New York, where he lost an eye.
The Iranian mullahs have used the natural resources of Iran to become the #1 sponsor of International terror since 1979. If there is a terror group killing innocents, wrecking economies, and generally disrupting the world, there’s a pretty good chance the mullahs gave that terror group a wad of cash.
That’s a very brief account of the butcher’s bill in American lives directly laid at the feet of the mullahs in Iran.
I don’t think any long-term Gentle Reader has any doubts about where my feelings lay regarding this morning’s festivities, however:
Strategically: Long overdue, and necessary for world stabilization and American interests.
Politically: I’m sure the oppo party on Congress is tuning up their shrieking, but given that they shriek about literally every-bloody-thing — no matter how small or insignificant — that the current Oval Office occupant does … ok.
Legally: I don’t know — and neither does anyone with a fresh degree in Legal Studies or International Strategic Studies from Google U. I would surmise that a man with access to the finest legal minds in the country probably has pretty firmly crossed his ‘t’s and dotted his ‘i’s, but we won’t know for a bit.
Personally: Kill as many of the mullahs as you want. Matter of fact kill all of them. Send the souls of every mullah, basiji, and IRGC thug — from highest to the least — shrieking into the bottomless dark, and bury their bodies in the cesspits where they belong.
There is going to be a lot of chatter on social media. A lot of claims of damage, lack of damage, targets hit, and targets missed will be circulating, aided by bot-driven disinformation and misinformation entities.
Take every report with a huge boulder of salt, until reliable Battle Damage Assessment reports come in — and those will be weeks away. Try not to aid the spread of social media bushwa just because it happens to jive with your personal feelings on the situation.
As far as the US military: Stay frosty, watch your buddies, and do the work. Good luck, God speed, and bring the hate onto the heads of the deserving.
Ian
EDIT — My previous posts about Iran:
So, Iran
So, Iran, Part 2
So, Iran, Part 3
Ian
Well written and comprehensive. This gets shared as far and wide as I can. Another small point: we now influence 80-90% of the oil that China purchases. That affects their nasty plans for Taiwan in the way we want them affected.
Thanks for the superb post.
Long, long, long overdue. I was at the end of my first enlistment when the Iranians overran the American embassy and took so very many of the folks there hostage. And I remember all and more of that Ian listed, of the Iran-sponsored incidents of terrorism, in the years after that. Why, yes - I spent almost twelve years stationed in Europe during the 1980s - and I spent a lot of that time looking nervously over my shoulder.
https://ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/pvt-pimentel-looking-over-my-shoulder-always/