The doomsday clock has been pushed back from midnight in spite of the nay sayers.
There is now an opportunity to realign and reconfigure the chaos in the Middle East.
The EU and UN roles with the exception of Germany are hyperbolic. Their bias and wet dreams have sidelined their value as anything but serious actors.
This new prayfully more than transient reality could provide the forum and platform for making this planet a safer place for intentioned and scrupulous geopolitical participants.
Islamic Iran declared war on Israel 46 years ago. Khomeni did two things upon taking over in 1979. Lower the age of female marriage to NINE years old (okay for Muhammed) and promise the destruction of Israel. What an auspicious beginning for that ‘revolution.’ Thousands of giant murals of Israel’s destruction and doomsday clocks cover the walls of Iran these last 46 years. Millions of Iranians want no part of this but the Islamic fanatics are as destructive to Iranian dissidents as they wish to be of Israel.
President Bush Sr. was 100% correct when he beseeched his son, Bush II, NOT to destroy the Iraqi government for this would fragment Iraq, see Islamic
terror groups fill the vacuums AND leave Iran as the major power in that part of the region.
Once CIA Director Dad Bush was right about it all. Much regional instability is direct result of Bush II’s useless 20+ year war. When asked why he didn’t take his dad’s counsel, he said he was listening to his ‘higher Father.’ What arrogance from a man who failed upward and would have been a great gym teacher if he’d come from a regular family (I’m not kidding). Iran created a ring of fire around Israel in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, etc. Iran shot hundreds of missing into Israel this last year. They’ve killed and jailed any Iranians who want peace and cooperation with Israel. How many acts of war before Israel has the right of defense? Islamic fanatics throw Iranian teen girls off roofs for the crime of possessing hair on their heads. Their torture chambers make the Shah’s look like Club Med (I take that back as there, too, was suffering). Time for the greatness of Persia to reassert itself not through nukes, but through scholarship, science, medicine, green tech, great art and literature, and in all these, to work with Israel to
Um. It was an airstrike that set the regime’s nuclear programme back somewhere between 1-10 years. I love your enthusiasm but maybe some perspective is needed. There is still a lot of work to do.
Hi Andrew, thanks for the comment. We are assuming that the regime is going to survive its complete humiliation at the hands of a tiny country with 1/9 of the population. Losing is one thing. Turning into a complete laughing stock is another. It has well and truly lost "the fear factor".
But the main point here is that international law is finally being enforced by the moral against the immoral instead of what has happened hitherto which it that is has been a rod into the hands of despots to induce chaos. It is a win for order in the world and a demonstration that the Free World is stronger that lunatics if we actually choose to be so.
Lol. Weak analysis on your part. What criteria gives you a 1-10 yrs set back? Destroyed all their reactors, the Jews killed all their upper military leaders in one day. They destroyed even more military assets as well. Their mullah’s are all hiding like weasels..
I’d say they’re finished for quite awhile. Ans keep up the BlackOps and kill their spies, scientists and sympathizers here and abroad….
I would say I’m hopeful more than confident, but whatever comes next can’t be worse than an Iran with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, surely followed by nuclear armed Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc.
A similar giddiness was common when the Berlin Wall came down. “Liberal democracy FTW!” Also, the “light of Persia” is a spectrum — Cyrus at one end, Ahasuerus at the other. “But Ahasuerus eventually did the right thing,” you say. True. But Esther & Mordecai have moved to Jerusalem.
I'm actually not quite sure what prevents it, but if I highlight a paragraph in your article it only shows, "copy cancel" not the expected "copy restack cancel" like normal.
👏👏👏 A poignant and important article to start off The Rage, Daniel! Indeed, last night when it was announced the United States had bombed Iran’s last three nuclear facilities thus denying them the bomb forever, it was one of the greatest moments in modern history for sure! Israel and the world are safe thanks to Donald Trump and the United States of America! 🇺🇸🫡 God bless America! God bless Israel! Donald Trump made a daring and controversial move that carried a great deal of risk but he and the brave heroes of the United States Air Force pulled it off. Operation Midnight Hammer will go down in the annals of history! The United States is not a prefect country by any means, we have many flaws. But it is a great country and one that has again stepped up to the plate when the world needed leadership most.
I don’t care what your political views are-left, right or center. The facts are what they are. Iran is an authoritarian theocracy with a gender apartheid that persecutes racial, religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ people, imprisons, tortures and executes its citizens, bans western music, has no freedom of speech or the press, and funds terrorist proxies throughout the region. They were trying to develop a nuclear weapon and wouldn’t have shrunk from using on it on the United States, the West, Israel, Saudi Arabia, or the Kurds. What Israel and the United States did was both morally right and absolutely necessary!
None of this is to say I want to see a full-on war between Israel and Iran or an American military invasion of Iran. Both of those things would be disasters that would only create more problems not solve any. Nor do I wish to see the Iranian regime collapse yet. If the Ayatollahs were to fall today, what would replace them? It would leave a power vacuum, a bloody civil war would break out and we’d have Iraq all over again. So Israel needs to control the scope of the war and the United States needs to keep its involvement limited. But nonetheless, this is a great day for the free world and humanity as a whole! Now is the time for peace as President Trump said!
Iran must negotiate a peace accords with the United States. They must agree to defund all their terrorist proxies and in exchange we can lift some of our sanctions on them. All the usual suspects flipped out over America bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. Dave Smith was online shrieking about how World War III was going to start. He also said he regretted endorsing Donald Trump and that he should be impeached. He went absolutely ballistic! But it was indisputably the right thing to do.
The regime in Iran won’t fall yet, but these operations by America and Israel have definitely greatly weakened their grip on power. It’s time for the Iranian people to be free! It’s time for an end to the Islamic Republic! I would like to see Iran become a free democracy with the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as a constitutional monarch.
Finally room to breathe!
The doomsday clock has been pushed back from midnight in spite of the nay sayers.
There is now an opportunity to realign and reconfigure the chaos in the Middle East.
The EU and UN roles with the exception of Germany are hyperbolic. Their bias and wet dreams have sidelined their value as anything but serious actors.
This new prayfully more than transient reality could provide the forum and platform for making this planet a safer place for intentioned and scrupulous geopolitical participants.
A much needed reset for international law enforcement and nuclear non-proliferation.
Islamic Iran declared war on Israel 46 years ago. Khomeni did two things upon taking over in 1979. Lower the age of female marriage to NINE years old (okay for Muhammed) and promise the destruction of Israel. What an auspicious beginning for that ‘revolution.’ Thousands of giant murals of Israel’s destruction and doomsday clocks cover the walls of Iran these last 46 years. Millions of Iranians want no part of this but the Islamic fanatics are as destructive to Iranian dissidents as they wish to be of Israel.
President Bush Sr. was 100% correct when he beseeched his son, Bush II, NOT to destroy the Iraqi government for this would fragment Iraq, see Islamic
terror groups fill the vacuums AND leave Iran as the major power in that part of the region.
Once CIA Director Dad Bush was right about it all. Much regional instability is direct result of Bush II’s useless 20+ year war. When asked why he didn’t take his dad’s counsel, he said he was listening to his ‘higher Father.’ What arrogance from a man who failed upward and would have been a great gym teacher if he’d come from a regular family (I’m not kidding). Iran created a ring of fire around Israel in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, etc. Iran shot hundreds of missing into Israel this last year. They’ve killed and jailed any Iranians who want peace and cooperation with Israel. How many acts of war before Israel has the right of defense? Islamic fanatics throw Iranian teen girls off roofs for the crime of possessing hair on their heads. Their torture chambers make the Shah’s look like Club Med (I take that back as there, too, was suffering). Time for the greatness of Persia to reassert itself not through nukes, but through scholarship, science, medicine, green tech, great art and literature, and in all these, to work with Israel to
make the Mideast great again.
shalom / salaam
Um. It was an airstrike that set the regime’s nuclear programme back somewhere between 1-10 years. I love your enthusiasm but maybe some perspective is needed. There is still a lot of work to do.
Hi Andrew, thanks for the comment. We are assuming that the regime is going to survive its complete humiliation at the hands of a tiny country with 1/9 of the population. Losing is one thing. Turning into a complete laughing stock is another. It has well and truly lost "the fear factor".
But the main point here is that international law is finally being enforced by the moral against the immoral instead of what has happened hitherto which it that is has been a rod into the hands of despots to induce chaos. It is a win for order in the world and a demonstration that the Free World is stronger that lunatics if we actually choose to be so.
Lol. Weak analysis on your part. What criteria gives you a 1-10 yrs set back? Destroyed all their reactors, the Jews killed all their upper military leaders in one day. They destroyed even more military assets as well. Their mullah’s are all hiding like weasels..
I’d say they’re finished for quite awhile. Ans keep up the BlackOps and kill their spies, scientists and sympathizers here and abroad….
I’d say they’re done for decades.
I would say I’m hopeful more than confident, but whatever comes next can’t be worse than an Iran with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, surely followed by nuclear armed Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc.
A similar giddiness was common when the Berlin Wall came down. “Liberal democracy FTW!” Also, the “light of Persia” is a spectrum — Cyrus at one end, Ahasuerus at the other. “But Ahasuerus eventually did the right thing,” you say. True. But Esther & Mordecai have moved to Jerusalem.
It's not the end of history, but it's a good day!
All the references to "light" are related to Zoroastrianism.
Your previous post from "The Rage" works perfectly so it seems you did something in the formatting of this latest one that is causing this mishap?
It's a mystery. It's on!!
I'm actually not quite sure what prevents it, but if I highlight a paragraph in your article it only shows, "copy cancel" not the expected "copy restack cancel" like normal.
See if this info helps?
https://substack.com/@daviddonoghue/note/c-46688579?r=5g8wzg
👏👏👏 A poignant and important article to start off The Rage, Daniel! Indeed, last night when it was announced the United States had bombed Iran’s last three nuclear facilities thus denying them the bomb forever, it was one of the greatest moments in modern history for sure! Israel and the world are safe thanks to Donald Trump and the United States of America! 🇺🇸🫡 God bless America! God bless Israel! Donald Trump made a daring and controversial move that carried a great deal of risk but he and the brave heroes of the United States Air Force pulled it off. Operation Midnight Hammer will go down in the annals of history! The United States is not a prefect country by any means, we have many flaws. But it is a great country and one that has again stepped up to the plate when the world needed leadership most.
I don’t care what your political views are-left, right or center. The facts are what they are. Iran is an authoritarian theocracy with a gender apartheid that persecutes racial, religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ people, imprisons, tortures and executes its citizens, bans western music, has no freedom of speech or the press, and funds terrorist proxies throughout the region. They were trying to develop a nuclear weapon and wouldn’t have shrunk from using on it on the United States, the West, Israel, Saudi Arabia, or the Kurds. What Israel and the United States did was both morally right and absolutely necessary!
None of this is to say I want to see a full-on war between Israel and Iran or an American military invasion of Iran. Both of those things would be disasters that would only create more problems not solve any. Nor do I wish to see the Iranian regime collapse yet. If the Ayatollahs were to fall today, what would replace them? It would leave a power vacuum, a bloody civil war would break out and we’d have Iraq all over again. So Israel needs to control the scope of the war and the United States needs to keep its involvement limited. But nonetheless, this is a great day for the free world and humanity as a whole! Now is the time for peace as President Trump said!
Iran must negotiate a peace accords with the United States. They must agree to defund all their terrorist proxies and in exchange we can lift some of our sanctions on them. All the usual suspects flipped out over America bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. Dave Smith was online shrieking about how World War III was going to start. He also said he regretted endorsing Donald Trump and that he should be impeached. He went absolutely ballistic! But it was indisputably the right thing to do.
The regime in Iran won’t fall yet, but these operations by America and Israel have definitely greatly weakened their grip on power. It’s time for the Iranian people to be free! It’s time for an end to the Islamic Republic! I would like to see Iran become a free democracy with the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as a constitutional monarch.
Amen
Why disable restack as quote?
It's not intentional. I'll look at the settings. Thanks!
---Can you help me with what to change?