This is justified retaliation

“Wars are the second greatest evil that human societies can perpetrate. The first is dictatorship, the enslavement of their citizens, which is the cause of wars.” –Ayn Rand, “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”

The chattering classes, no doubt, will second-guess and condemn President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from here to eternity for the United States and Israel’s military attacks on Iran’s leaders and military infrastructure.

They are going to condemn them as being no different than the tyrants they killed. 

No question, you can categorize the bombings as acts of war. But they were justified acts of self-defense that should have been done long ago. 

They were justified and rightful responses to the attacks and force perpetrated by Iran’s tyrannical leaders since 1979 against the United States, Israel and much of the Western and Christian world.

Iran ignited the war in 1979, when, egged on by their Islamic jihad leaders, Iranians stormed and attacked sovereign American soil — the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Four years later, Iran’s leaders escalated their war on the U.S. when their proxies in 1983 killed 241 U.S. troops in U.S. barracks in Beirut. 

From then until now, for the past 46 years, two satanic leaders have led and masterminded the Islamic Republic of Iran’s diabolical terrorism and deaths of untold thousands around the world — Ruhollah Khomeini, founder and first leader from 1979 to 1989, and Ali Khamenei, leader for the past 37.

And yet, for most of this time, the civilized world has wanted the removal, if not the deaths, of these two evil tyrants.

It took Trump and Netanyahu finally to do what was justified — to defend their people against unjustified physical force and slaughter that Iran’s leaders have been executing without consequences to themselves — only to their own citizenry and the rest of the world.

What’s more, to their credit, Trump and Netanyahu also appear to understand there is only one way to bring an end to war in the shortest time — overwhelming, unrelenting force. 

As Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said: “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.”

While early polls of Americans show strong opposition to Trump’s actions against Iran, what was the alternative — more of the same? The ayatollah and his thugs showed no signs of changing course.

Give Trump credit. Unlike his six predecessors and all congresses before him, Trump stood up for the American people and the world.

Yes, war exacts a terrible price and is never good. But when thugs bring brute force on you, it is right to return it with even greater force.

Courage and conviction are applauded.