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Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media are like a bunch of kids in a car on vacation, screaming to Daddy: Are we there yet?
No, we are not there yet. In fact, we are probably just past the halfway point in this war. The president said at the outset he thought military operations against Iran would last between four to six weeks. We are just finishing Week 3.
The Democrat media has also been trying to blow up the disagreement between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu over Israel’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field.
As he spoke to reporters on Thursday with the Japanese Prime Minister at his side in the Oval Office, the president said he had not known about the Israeli plan to strike South Pars, didn’t agree with it, and told Bibi not to do it again.
The media tried to jin that up to sustain their anti-Semitic narrative that Israel dragged the US kicking and screaming into war with Iran.
But they conveniently ignored what Trump said next in a post on Truth Social: if Iran retaliated by attacking the Qatari portion of South Pars (which Qatar calls the North Gas field), then the US, “with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirely of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.”
He continued: “I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so.”
Well, guess what? Iran retaliated – not against Israel – but against Qatar by hitting Ras Laffan Industrial City, the largest LNG production facility on earth, which processes an estimated 20% of the world’s LNG supplies.
I’ve been saying all week on Newsmax and other media that these Iranian moves are like demolishing the house of their last rich uncle. I think the regime is increasingly desperate, and like Samson, they are intent on bringing the entire house down around them.
The Qataris responded by expelling the Iranian ambassador and all Iranian diplomats. They also unleashed al-Jazeera, which in the past was known as Jihad TV, to attack Iran and praise the US-Israeli war effort.
When al-Jazeera praises Israel, you know there has been a fundamental shift in the attitude of the Gulf Arab states.
For 47 years, this regime in Tehran has made terrorism the lynchpin of its survival. It began with the seizing of the US embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979 and hasn’t stopped since. But until now, no US president has had the courage or the cojones to fight back.
When the 9/11 Commission discovered 75 smoking gun documents that clearly implicated Iran for providing material support to the al-Qaeda hijackers, the Commission staff director, Phil Zelikow, did his best to bury the information.
As I detail in my book on the dirty secrets of the Iranian regime, Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran, Zelikow ordered his investigators to minimize the information as far as possible. His rationale: If the American public knew the extent of the Iranian regime’s involvement in the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks, they would demand that we go to war with Iran.
(You can find the sanitized version of what the 9/11 investigators discovered about Iran on pages 240-241 of the Commission’s final report.)
The United States early on smashed the regime’s command and control, so that today no one really knows who is running the country.
But in true Samson mode, the regime had a backup plan, which we are seeing play out today: they decentralized command and control to local IRGC commanders, supplying them with Doomsday target lists they were to attack in the event they lost contact with regime central.
It will take time to localize and destroy these local commanders and the missile launchers and drone launchers they control.
That is why the United States continues to move additional assets to the region, including two groups of Marine Expeditionary forces (5000 marines in total).
This week we also saw the entry to the war of the venerable A-10 and the AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. Launched from the southern side of the Persian Gulf, they can loiter over target zones and launch devastating rocket fire on missile and drone launchers as they pop up.
The war cannot end until the United States restores freedom of navigation to the Strait of Hormuz, and that could take some time — perhaps even longer than the four to six week war the president and his military advisors foresaw.
When asked to supply minesweepers and other assets to help in this task, our NATO allies turned away. Belgium cried, “it’s not our war.” French president Macron, aka le p’tit macaron, or Little Cookie, told us to surrender. (Need I remind readers that France is the only country whose tanks have back-up lights?).
Thanks to the behind-the-scenes support from the Japanese prime minister, it would now appear that the Euros have seen the light. We’ll see.
But I find it remarkable that when called upon, the only ally who immediately stepped up to the plate was the president of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani.
He got a call from U.S. special envoy Tom Barrack, asking him to reopen a long-closed pipeline to Ceyhan, Turkey, so the Iraqi government could export 250,000 barrels of oil per day. He said yes, immediately, and the oil started to flow the next day.
Why is that remarkable? Because the Kurds closed the pipeline to Iraqi oil three years ago, after Baghdad refused to uphold the revenue sharing agreements they had agreed to long before.
Even worse: Baghdad continues to pay the salaries of the Popular Mobilization Forces militias that have been firing rockets and drones at the Kurdish capital, Erbil, since the beginning of this war.
Despite the incredible animosity between Baghdad and Erbil, Barzani said yes, because the President asked. So today Iraq is able to contribute 250,000 b/d to the world oil supply, up from zero just the week before.
That’s what true allies do.
