I was on active duty in the Navy in 1979 when the mullahs replaced the Shah and started their special Islamic revolution. I never served in Vietnam but was stationed with a number of veterans of that war, and was surprised when so many of them started repeating what became almost a chant in our unit: “Nuke them, nuke them. Nuke them ‘til the sands turn to glass.” I was working in a big hospital, and the chanters were mainly doctors and corpsmen. They were, as we might say nowadays, kidding, not kidding.
I knew they were bitter about the outcome of the war in Southeast Asia, but I wondered why they instantly saw such strong parallels between the Islamists and the communists.
Forty-seven years later, I finally saw it. It wasn’t so much religion or politics—rather it was the master word that creates intention, that dictates behavior, the word that didn’t need to be spoken because they had lived it—fanaticism. What they saw in the mobs that stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, they had already seen in the Vietcong. Go online to the famous helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now, and 10 minutes in, you will see what the corpsmen and docs that I worked with saw just a few years earlier.
I don’t know why no previous president did what Trump is doing now, but I suspect that it has to do with his finally respecting the true nature of the mullahs. They are Twelvers, and with Twelvers who hold political power, there is only one solution: Obliterate them militarily and politically. Trump has the allies and resources to do just that.
In the last month, I have made it a point to ask several well-educated acquaintances in different age groups if they knew what a Twelver was, and not a one did—not my two children and son-in-law, or my genius nurse practitioner; not my brilliant RN niece, my really smart barber, or my own brother, a well-read attorney—all just had a blank look on their faces and shook their heads when I asked.
Here at American Thinker, you will find that word. Andrea Widburg has written at length about the apocalyptic threat from the Twelver cult, but it isn’t widely discussed, and I think I know why.
First, the mainstream media does not want to suggest that Islam is in any way responsible for the behavior of the Iranian government. Second, there is a darker, very uncomfortable reason: The moral dilemma created by recognizing the Twelvers for what they are.
The West never really faced up to the Holocaust while it was occurring. It ended only because the Nazis were defeated. The Holodomor in Ukraine was barely acknowledged by Western politicians until it was long gone, and even now is given short shrift.
The West remained paralyzed by the failure of Vietnam and watched the Khmer Rouge massacre a quarter of the Cambodian population. In one of those exquisite ironies of history, Cambodia was saved by the Vietnamese army just a few years after the US evacuation from Southeast Asia.
Twelvers are different from communists because many Twelvers really do want a fiery apocalypse now, and believe their Hidden Imam will not appear without an ongoing End Times event. This is their justification for the destruction of Jerusalem, along with the rest of Israel, and of course, nuclear war on us, the Great Satan. Please believe the mullahs: if they get nuclear weapons, they will use them, maybe right away.
I’m convinced that when Trump and his war council were told that Iran had stored enough 60% enriched uranium to make 10 or 11 bombs, it was all the information they needed to proceed with a preemptive attack. That material can be enriched to weapons-grade in a very short time.
Anyone with any common sense knows that the threat was indeed imminent. Every politician who argues otherwise is stupid, ignorant, or intellectually dishonest. If you are a United States Senator, you may be all three. If you are a mere Representative, it goes without saying.
I hear the politicians and commentators calling the mullahs fanatics, to little effect. The word doesn’t work anymore, not in today’s political climate, when every Republican is openly labeled as fascist or extremist by the left, and the conservatives know that all the progressives and their AWFLs are insane lunatics.
The behavior itself—fanaticism—needs a better descriptor than the word—fanatic. I think it’s important because the administration needs to find a way to make the public comfortable with extending a particular kind of status quo, the kind that I think President Trump would be a genius at.
The president plays as much golf as he can, so surely knows about taking a mulligan—being allowed to take an extra penalty-free shot after making a terrible one. When it comes to negotiations with the mullahs and the IRGC, I think he should “take a mullah-gan,” extending negotiations way beyond what most Americans expect.
The Iranians are famous for stretching out negotiations for months, even years. They negotiate for time, and unfortunately, they’ve gotten both time and money from feckless US negotiators eager for a deal, any deal.
We have an opening for the perfect stalemate: keep the Strait of Hormuz open with free passage to and from every non-Iranian port, while maintaining the current blockade on Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Continue to negotiate a permanent cease-fire with Iran, but insist that the U.S. blockade must continue until Iran agrees to every single United States demand, in writing. I think our president can come up with an itemized list that can be discussed endlessly, one demand at a time. He can make it last months if he wants, but I don’t think he will need to.
With no oil income and no foreign banks to use, Iran will be bankrupt in weeks. But keep the pressure on, because President Trump really does want to take all power away from the Twelvers, even if he doesn’t say so. He knows that is the only way to solve the problem, not only for us but for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.
How do we get the average US citizen comfortable with this strategy? It would be a wonderful thing if we could convince them that Iran is actually the Great Satan of the world right now, as bad as the Nazis were in World War II.
Twelvers are different from Nazis in at least one way: Unlike the Nazis, who wanted to preside over the spoils, the Twelvers believe that their own deaths bring victory and transport them to Paradise, where they can resume raping those virgins that they hadn’t yet executed. Allah decreed that virgins cannot be executed, so they are routinely and often repeatedly raped before their execution.
Yes, you read that right. This is a practice that has gone on in Iran for decades. Just go to Google and ask its AI assistant for the details, and you will get page after page after page of documentation. The god of the mullahs is both vengeful and exacting. Its laws must be obeyed.
Is there a way to get these truths into the minds of the American public at large? Are there clever people who will create scary videos and grim memes for the TikTok and Instagram-addicted of this nation? I hope so. Do we have the will to do it, and keep it up?
We are really better than they are, and their ideology deserves to be annihilated.
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DrA is a mostly retired physician who has practiced rheumatology for more than 50 years.
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