Iran Is Not The United States’ War To Fight
If President Trump truly believes in ‘no more stupid wars,’ now is the time to prove it.
Overnight into Wednesday, attacks between Israel and Iran continued, marking the sixth day of hostilities since Israel’s operation “Rising Lion” began.
These strikes have not only targeted critical elements of Iran’s nuclear program, resulting in the deaths of multiple nuclear scientists, but also high-ranking Iranian military and government officials, signaling that this operation is about not only destroying Iran’s nuclear program but ultimately the regime itself.
So far, the United States has not taken on an offensive role in the conflict, but the U.S. has participated in helping Israel intercept incoming missiles. However, the Pentagon is also sending additional warplanes, air refueling tankers, and the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier to the area, giving Trump “options” should the conflict escalate.
While this kind of posture is described as “defensive” in nature by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, it has the clear potential for offensive use, which would be a catastrophic mistake.
As Tucker Carlson correctly stated in a recent commentary, “The United States should not at any level participate in a war with Iran. No funding, no American weapons, no troops on the ground. … [D]rop Israel. Let them fight their own wars.”
Unsurprisingly, this is not the mindset of neoconservative media personalities such as Mark Levin and Sean Hannity, who are salivating at the potential for America to not only provide military aid to Israel but to help take out the Iranian regime once and for all.
And now that Israel has gained air superiority over the skies of Iran, the opportunity for the U.S. to strike Iranian nuclear facilities with “bunker buster” bombs at a minimum, or even assist in a strike that takes out Iran’s supreme leader, is increasingly becoming more likely.
The adverse consequences from a regime change due to American involvement would reverberate for decades to come, as they have after America first attempted regime change in Iran.
Hostility between America and Iran can be traced back to 1953, when the U.S. and U.K. orchestrated a coup known as Operation Ajax, which overthrew the nationalist and democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the pro-Western monarch Mohammad Reza as Iran’s leader.
This coup ultimately paved the way for the Islamic Revolution of 1979, leading to the Iranian hostage crisis, the Beirut Barracks bombing, the Khobar Towers bombing, and a host of other incidents like Iran’s training of Shiite militias in Iraq, all of which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of American servicemen and women.
But rather than absorb the hard lessons of Iran, that foreign meddling often breeds long-term instability and blowback, America doubled down after 9/11, pursuing an interventionist strategy on steroids, formulated by neoconservatives and implemented by the George W. Bush administration.
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