War and the Chirpy Conservatives
You can't call it quits when they won't quit you
There is still a bit of neocon blood running through my veins despite my colossal efforts at exorcism. The ghost of Thomas Jefferson hovered over me chanting, the power of the Constitution compels you! Lots of prayers were showered my way and yet a fractional slice of the Dubya demon still resides somewhere inside of me.
Jefferson was the first U.S. president to launch a foreign war into, of all places, the Middle East to fight the Islamic Barbary Pirates. He won that war. He also had to put boots on the ground in order to do so.
I don’t want boots on the ground.
As Epic Furry began, I did a little bit of rooting for this. If you were alive and cognitive when the Islamist Arabs overthrew the CIA’s choice of Iranian leaders, you will remember that these zealots defiled U.S. sovereign territory by invading our embassy in Tehran. For 444 days, Iran held 66 American diplomats and support staff hostage, torturing them with mock executions and beatings, while exposing the impotence of the Carter Administration. It was the standard low point of America’s foreign standing until, of course, the Afghan pullout orchestrated by the equally impotent Biden Administration. Sexual innuendos may apply here—my sophomoric humor knows no bounds.
Revenge also lacks boundaries.
As I take a step back from our Iranian engagement, I am alarmed. Forget, for the moment, that the Trump campaign, all three times, ran against régime change and endless wars as foreign policy tools. In his second term, he has portrayed himself as the president of peace, until, of course, he decided that force was necessary in Venezuela. The talk of the Nobel no longer is heard.
Claims of hypocrisy are fair game.
Now if you’re going to use force, at least he did it the right way. He secretly negotiated with the number two in command to open the door for the snatching of Nicolás Maduro. In what was a stifling show of force and coordination from our armed forces (what the hell is the discombobulater?), Maduro was seized in his jammies and whisked away to the same prison that held our favorite pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The next day? The war was over; régime change happened; we’ll see where it goes from there.
The president’s foreign policy seems to be disjointed, however, whether by design or not, it has been beneficial for America from a geopolitical point of view. Madura’s downfall will greatly curtail the ambitions of China, Russia, Cuba, and the Islamic barbarians, denying them access to Venezuela’s oil, the geographic gateway into Latin America, and the smuggling routes into the U.S. He also pressured Panama into kicking out China. The last domino in the Americas will be Cuba. Trump has resurrected gun boat diplomacy.
Iran can be seen in that light as well. The primary objectives have been identified as ending the theocratic fascists quest for nuclear weapons and funding terrorist proxies. One goal helps the world, the other, primarily, Israel. One unstated goal, however, is to reign in the Wild West oil markets that fuel China’s energy infrastructure.
Iran, overall, is simply a nuisance. They have not represented any true threat to us—despite saber rattling—once we became energy independent. The talk about Iran going full nuclear has been rolled out for at least the past twenty-five years. North Korea took much less time to develop their nukes.
My thinking on this subject was, who the hell cares if they get nukes; surly they wouldn’t use them because we’d just turn their desert wasteland into glass. The problem with my past thinking is that, I now realize, we’re not dealing with people who value life; when you routinely slaughter thousands of your own citizens, then you jump to the front of the line for blood thirsty maniacs. They are true believers in their apocalyptic visions of martyrdom; those virgins are waiting for them and they seem to be eager to consummate the marriage.
Trump got itchy when the Iranians bragged about still having enough material for upwards of ten bombs—countering his claim we bombed their nuke program into the stone age during Midnight Hammer—and they were going to start the refining process again. Then of course, it appears, we underestimated their ballistic missile program. If these things are true, then there may be some justification for his actions. Did Iran really have the power to amp up their nuclear ambitions? If so, why hadn't they already?
It could be that, behind the scenes, no one is willing to help Iran obtain nukes. China, Russia, and North Korea all have vested interests as Iran is a constant source of consternation in the West; also, it’s a cheap source of oil for China and North Korea. A nuclear Iran, however, would blow up in their faces and they know it.
My new thinking is that I—despite wanting payback—wish we hadn’t started this thing, especially at this time. If Trump thought we’d go in there guns a blazing and the Iranians would piss their pants and bow down before him, then he knew something we didn’t or he was naïve. A nation cannot gain a total victory over an enemy with air power alone; total capitulation can only occur when physical occupation occurs. Again, I don’t want boots on the ground.
From a pain perspective, Americans were just now starting to realize the benefits of a turnaround economy after demented Joe drained the lifeblood from middle America. One of the major drivers with the last go around of inflation were gas prices; they are again skyrocketing thanks to this current venture.
Waiting for a period of six months or so, the economy would have recovered sufficiently to go on this adventure; and, waiting until after the midterms, the Republicans may have eked out a win to retain congressional control. Now, unless our fellow citizens realize the follies and ills of the Democrat Party, the inmates will retake control of the asylum.
Then, there’s a ton of chirping coming from the alternative conservative media.
They claim he is under the spell of the Jews; that he’s an egomaniac and power has gone to his head; that, horror of horrors, he’s not a Christian, though on this point, Trump did himself no favors by going after Iran on Easter.
The Iranian rant itself echoed his 2017 taunt to Kim Jong Un just before Little Rocket Man pulled back his own rhetoric and began negotiations. He told Kim that he would be met with “fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.”
Trump says things in the thugs own language so there is no equivocation about where he stands. The Iranians are bastards and they should open the effing straights, but fanatics tend to laugh at strongly worded letters; they only respect force.
These chirpers have no problem calling for Trump’s removal now. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who would support a Trump impeachment, wonders aloud whether she still considers herself a Republican. Let me help you out here, darlin’, you are not; you’re just another charlatan that fed at the D.C. trough like all the rest. Stop currying favor from the very beasts—CNN, ABC, and all of the rest of the degenerate media—that sought to take you down before your sudden epiphany. She continues to be a tool for hire.
(As a side note, I don’t care for former representative Greene—I never have. She has a subtle drama about her that would make all-that-is-glitter Jazzy Crockett blush. Their catfight during a House Oversight Committee meeting was symptomatic of the continued degradation of the façade of congressional decorum. Amazingly, both Jazzy and MTG, as she is so affectionately known, are out of politics. The gods must be smiling down upon us.)
I am sympathetic to many of the chirpers and their claimed grievances. No one should give any political leader a pass; feet to the fire is the best way to approach politicians.
But Alex Jones (a strange beast), Tucker Carlson, Meghan Kelly, Candace Owens (another strange beast), et.al. touted Trump as the savior, the one for which we’ve all been waiting (reminiscent of the great savior Barry O). They all campaigned for him in 2024 as the embodiment of MAGA.
Somehow, they transitioned their endorsement into being the gatekeepers for all things good and honest and innocent. I agree with a great many of their goals, including withdrawal from the world stage. None of them, however, understand current reality. You can’t just pick up the ball and go home. To call for Trump’s ouster, as they all have intimated, is a betrayal of what they supposedly stood for before the election and totally counter productive for their other stated wants.
(And another side note: Mark Levine and Ben Shapiro dancing the horah on the Fox News telethon for Making Israel Great Again is just as sickening.)
Like him or not, believe him or not, Trump stated for the past forty years what he would do to Iran and how he would conduct foreign policy. None of this should surprise anyone. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending upon your point of view, that’s one reason he won the election. If these chirpy knaves had paid attention to their “savior” then why does any of this catch them by surprise?
Hypocrites all.
As a nation, we’ve created a ton of messes around the world but I don’t buy into Colin Powell’s you break it, you fix it BS. Sometimes, things need to break beyond repair. If Iran continues to eff around—just as they did with the so-called peace talks in Pakistan—bomb them back to the stone age and bring our troops home. Let China and the Euro bros figure it out. I’ve had enough with the Arabs and the Jews.
But as we withdraw from the world stage, we can’t simply pack up and go home. We can’t slither away as China fills the power vacuum.
Trump has staked his claim on peace through commerce, peace through strength. This is not a new sentiment.
“…peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none…” said Thomas Jefferson in his first Inaugural Address. Jefferson, however, found that strength had to be a part of our foreign policy. Before the Barbary War, he wanted to shrink the Navy to a token force but free and honest friendships couldn’t always be achieved through diplomacy alone. He, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin knew what they were up against with the “Musselmans”.
Jefferson launched the Barbary War because he wanted peace through commerce; the Barbary pirates held foreign ships captive until ransom was paid. The Euro-wienies paid up; Jefferson decided to use force.
The more things change…
His war in the Mediterranean taught him the need for a strong and well armed military to protect American interests with a careful balance of when we should fight and when we should refrain.
An America First foreign policy doesn’t mean isolationism, it means protecting us from future foreign entanglements—which I question whether it’s even possible at this point—while demanding that America’s voice is still preeminent. It means withdrawal from NATO, or greatly reduced obligations; it means withdrawal from the United Nations, or greatly reduced obligations; it means that there are no more “special relationships” with foreign powers regardless of “shared vision”. (This especially applies to Israel and the Euros.)
A benefit to the current Iran entanglement laid bare all of the international institutional corruption and decay; Europe’s backside was exposed when they denied the use of our own bases built to protect them. This makes it an easier sell to the American people for reduced international involvement.
I truly hope that the president is in the midst of cleaning up past U.S. foreign policy failures so that we can then begin a methodical retreat from being the world’s 911 first responder. As last man standing after the two world wars, we were tasked with being the world’s policemen; the U.S. Navy patrols the world’s oceans to protect the framework of globalization (not to be confused with globalism). Globalization has left us a poisoned well; middle America may never recover.
My observation, through his aggressive foreign policy, is that Trump aims to settle the waters before we sail away:
· Greenland, because we can no longer trust our NATO “allies” to help defend us from Russian or Chinese aggression. Greenland gives us the location to counter aggression in the Arctic.
· Venezuela because the aforementioned foreign designs in our backyard.
· Cuba because, well, they’ve been a thorn in our side for over sixty years and have invited foreign intervention at every turn of their communist hellhole existence.
· Iran because they’re the turd in the punchbowl. Likewise Little Rocket Man.
· The only other major disturbance in the force is Russia and Ukraine; we certainly dumped gallons of milk on aisle 9, but Europe wanted this; let them get the mop and bucket.
While I have personally come to the conclusion that we must not get into any war unless the threat is directed to American safety and sovereignty, we have sinned in the past; we have engineered dreadful actions overseas in the name of Keeping the World Safe for Democracy ™. (We just witnessed another color revolution in Hungary under the direction of the USAID remnants and the EU globalists.)
We need to keep our fingers out of the pie as many of these adventures have left our fingers stained with rhubarb—never could stand rhubarb pie. But we’re in Trump’s world now. He’s either making it worse or we’ll be eating apple pie in no time. I don’t like it but that’s how the world works.
While the president’s current rampage through the world may appear to be insanity run amok, Thomas Jefferson, the predictor of the ills that would befall us, would approve.