Will Americans Make the Sacrifice to Change the World?

The War with Iran has been just over three months. Forty days were spent eliminating the evil leaders of the Islamic Republic, the Iranian air defenses, navy, ballistic missile sites, and renewed efforts to produce an atomic bomb.

A fragile ceasefire continues as we negotiate an end to the conflict. 

We stand at an historic “hinge of history” in the Middle East and the world. Will we as Americans be willing to sacrifice short term to liberate the Iranian people?

Will Americans Make the Sacrifice to Change the World?

Let’s begin with some facts about the Iran War.

1.Why did the USA & Israeli bomb Iran? 

Our negotiators were told that following the Twelve Day War in 2025, Iran began to reconstruct its nuclear program and were weeks away from having enriched uranium for a bomb. We had to act. 

2. Why stop Iran? What about the other nuclear powers?

The USA, Russia, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan, France, the United Kingdom, and Israel are nuclear powers. Iran is the only nation that is not restrained by “Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD).” They are jihadist kamikazes (Islamic “Twelvers”) who will die to blow up the United States (Great Satan) and Israel (Little Satan). They have chanted death to us for the past 47 years. 

That’s why President Trump stands firm: “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.” The other nuclear nations have restraints on doing evil (even North Korea which is a puppet of China). Iran wants to blow up Israel and the USA to bring back the Twelfth Imam. 

3. What is the purpose of the current U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz?

Twenty percent of the world’s oil supplies go through it. China is dependent on this oil flow as is Europe and other nations. Iran is losing millions of dollars of oil revenue daily during the blockade making it hard to pay their police state and threatening economic collapse. The longer the blockade lasts, the more likely Iran’s economy will tank and the people will rise up to overthrow the totalitarian regime. 

That is the unspoken secondary goal–ridding the world of the Islamic Republic. Most of the terrorist activities in the Middle East and worldwide are authorized, funded, and armed from Iran.

Denying Iran nuclear weapons and liberating its people would create an era of peace not seen in our lifetime.

The United States, now the world’s largest producer of oil, is also using the Iran War to force Russia to the bargaining table in Ukraine, limit China’s global aspirations, and re-channel the world’s oil wealth and distribution through the Gulf of America–not the Middle East.

That’s an economic world-changer.

4. What will it take from the American people to achieve Middle East peace and its global benefits?

We need to tolerate the current higher fuel costs short-term to break the evil Islamic Republic and liberate 92 million Iranian people. Yes, it’s hard with high gas prices, but most other price hikes are lingering problems from the Covid era and government spending. Defeating Iran will lower gas prices and unleash an economic boom in the USA and other nations.

Will we Americans, as we did during World Wars I and II, be willing to sacrifice some short term pump prices to free the world’s 15th largest nation from tyranny and create more stability in  the Middle East?

Other nations are joining the cause. Here’s Newt Gingrich’s take.

The Coalition to Defeat Iran

Newt Gingrich

After spending this week reviewing the Iranian war, I am convinced President Donald J. Trump is on the edge of an historic victory.

The real breakthrough for me came as I reviewed President Trump’s decisions and maneuvers — not from the standpoint of American unilateralism, but from the standpoint of the leader of a remarkable historic coalition. The fact is, he has assembled the largest coalition ever put together in the modern Middle East.

Everyone understands that Israel is an important ally. What is little discussed is the depth of support from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and other countries in the region. It must be sobering for the Iranian dictatorship to realize that it does not have a single ally willing to challenge the American naval blockade. Slowly, gradually, timidly, our European allies are lining up to help with the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. A great deal of President Trump’s maneuvers against Iran make sense once he is seen as a coalition leader and not just as a unilateral American President.

I spent a lot of the last couple weeks reviewing kinetic options to win the battle of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. The administration could consider using the shocking, shattering level of force President Richard Nixon and Secretary Henry Kissinger used against Hanoi and Haiphong in Christmas 1972. (Operation Linebacker II convinced the North Vietnamese to agree to a truce and the freeing of American prisoners of war).

If this were a unilateral American campaign, I could enthusiastically support a more aggressive kinetic campaign. However, it is clear such a campaign would shatter the coalition. Our Arab allies are convinced Iran could still do enormous damage to their oil fields and infrastructure. Coalitions are inherently slower than unilateral campaigns. However, coalitions ultimately bring vastly more power to the fight.

I am as frustrated as everyone else by the pace of talking with the dictatorship. But, having reviewed the correlation of forces and the options available to Trump’s Middle East coalition and the Iranian religiously motivated dictatorship, I think President Trump’s coalition leadership (something almost none of his critics want to acknowledge) is within reach of an enormous historic victory.

The window of opportunity will not stay open forever, so time is the most important resource at play in this struggle. Iran may be under the impression that the U.S. will withdraw after the midterms if Democrats seize control of Congress. There is precedent for this theory. In 1975, the Democratic majority in the Senate blocked critical aid to South Vietnam. This signaled to the Viet Cong that they could invade without fear of American reprisals. Without funding for its defense, the South swiftly collapsed.

History offers yet another important lesson. In the early 2000s, the U.S. failed to stop North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons. We are dealing with the consequences of that inaction even today. North Korea regularly threatens the annihilation of South Korea, Japan, and the United States. If Iran is granted the atomic bomb, Hamas or Hezbollah (as proxy terrorist groups of Iran) could destroy almost any city in the Middle East. The threat would not stop there.

It is not unthinkable that the military leaders and clerics of the regime would consider a similar attack on a major U.S. population center. New York, Chicago, or San Francisco could be gone in an instant because American politicians couldn’t muster the willpower to deny Iran the bomb. President Trump has vowed that he will never let this scenario occur.

And if the Iranian dictatorship ultimately proves it is hopelessly committed to a suicidal position, there will be plenty of time for a kinetic campaign of enormous power and effectiveness.

Either way, we are on the edge of an astonishing victory for our values and for a safer Middle East.

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I believe our government leaders have the wisdom and courage to lead us to victory.

As fellow Americans, let’s willingly accept the temporary “pump pain, tighten our belts, and pay the small price placed upon us (compared to past generations) to liberate the world from Islamic jihadist insanity.

Let your voice of willing sacrifice be heard.