Those Who Don’t Know-And Therefore Can’t Learn From History-Should Listen To Others That Do
I’m so sick of hearing from the loudest and stupidest voices in America opining on crap they absolutely don’t know anything about. Or worse, politicians whose idea of societal contributions is hand wringing, pearl clutching, finger pointing and diapey wetting fear mongering to score political points.
The bottom Line Up Front is that Iran effed around for nearly 46 years before the US finally had enough of their worldwide terrorism sponsorship, saber rattling, murder of Americans and meddling in the gulf, and it is about time that they got punched in the mouth-hard-and repeatedly-which began in earnest with last year’s strikes on their nuclear missile development activities.
That was a relative teaser action to send a signal to their leadership that the world was out of patience with their nonsense and it was time to change their behavior. They didn’t listen to the message, nor heed the warning or believe they might get what they finally deserved after some 47 years of being an outcast, rogue nation.
That was destined-fated-to get what they deserved-and were going to get it good and hard-if they didn’t get their stuff together and give up on their continued terrorist, nuclear, maniacal aspirations to annihilate Israel and undermine American interests.
My title is somewhat of an ode to those confused, ignorant (lacking knowledge) and silly LSMBTGA pundits who-for myriad-but whatever-reasons seem to be confused that the United States of America (USA) would decapitate and cripple Iran’s leadership and war fighting capability to facilitate the establishment of a new regime in Tehran after all these years.
I’ve seen hundreds of hand wringing, simpy, silly, ridiculous, embarrassing takes about this action, but the absolute worst may be by Megyn Kelly who made the ludicrously ignorant statement that our military who gave their lives for this country in this effort at this time actually gave their lives for Iran or Israel.
Tell us you know nothing about our history with Iran without telling us. Or that you know nothing about our history of military service without saying so.
Talk about a total horses arse take. Think about what she said here. This argument is akin to the modern stupidity that made its way around the left that discusses Confederate Soldiers as having wasted their lives fighting in the Civil War to maintain slavery vice states’ rights, as if wars have no conscription component or that any military member at any time gets to pick and choose whether such actions are undertaken for “politically correct reasons” they agree with or even had a say in or voted upon.
Directly reminiscent of the crappy treatment most Vietnam Veterans received as a homecoming from idjiots like the above after having been conscripted into service for their country which took them to Southeast Asia, where some 58,200 made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation.
Our military answers the call to duty and fights on behalf of their fellow soldiers, the Non-Commissioned Officers and Officers appointed over them and their country. Fighting for America means serving and honoring the memory and the legacy of the long line of soldiers that served before them and passing on the legacy to those who will take their place in the line as the guidon is passed to successive generations.
But for the grace of God go I/we that we live in better times than those beloved and not forsaken military who went before us these past 250 years fighting and dying in places that many in America cannot find on a map.
If any nation on earth deserves to have its leadership taken out so the people can rebuild their nation to join the world in peace more than Iran-I’m not aware of it. But let’s do somewhat of a walk down memory lane to set the context for the proper tone for a discussion about what’s next, once we have the same level set on how we got here.
What did they give their lives for? In the memory of 72 hostages that were taken on 4 November 1979 and were held for some 444 days until released 20 January 1980 as President Reagon took over the Presidency. An action that undermined American prestige around the world and ultimately chased a president out of office.
In memory of an April 1983 suicide bombing at our Beirut Embassy that killed 63 people, with 17 Americans that included 9 CIA officers.
In memory of an October 1983 bombing against our United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut that killed 241 US service members and a number (58) of French Paratroopers who were part of the coalition force.
This was the deadliest event against our beloved Marines since the battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
In memory of the US citizens terrorized during the 1980s as Iran sponsored terrorist conducted kidnappings, attacks, bombings, hijackings and terrorism against our people abroad throughout this period of attempted peace negotiations between warring factions of the Iran funded terrorists, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel backed by the US and United Nation peacekeepers-all of whom became targets of Iran and Hezbollah and the PLO.
In memory of the kidnapping, torture and murder of our CIA Beirut Station Chief William Buckley in 1984 (reference included because it contains a bit of analysis, but it also refers to the murder of slain American Professor Malcom Kerr, the father of University of Arizona star basketball player, later NBA star, current NBA coach and coach of the US National Team Steve Kerr, who I attended classes with at the UofA and who always surprises-given this incident from his life-with his seemingly anti-American rhetoric which may just be Trump Derangement Syndrome.)
In memory of the 1990s when the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad carried out a wave of terror in Israel that included the deaths of many Americans, including a Hamas bus bombing in Jerusalem in 1996 that killed three Americans, as well as the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem that killed three Americans, 15 in total.
In memory of the Khobar Towers bombing on June 25, 1996 that was carried out by Hezbollah al-Hejaz, a Saudi-based militant group with strong ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The attack involved a massive truck bomb detonated near a housing complex for USAF personnel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American airmen and injuring nearly 500 others. A forensic investigation by the FBI determined direct Iranian responsibility for the bombing.
In memory of the Iraq war where Iran IRGC leadership orchestrated the lethal insurgency conducted against US and Coalition forces by training, equipping and mentoring militia forces through use of Kataib Hezbollah and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq and other Shia related groups that fought the US for decades.
The IRGC efforts focused in particular on Improvised Explosive Device (IED) technology and improvements from 2003-present, innovating the use of non-metal components capable of defeating detectors, perfecting explosively formed penetrators (EFP) capable of penetrating vehicles, armor and individual protective devices, as well as increasingly sophisticated proximity fuses, magnetic/electric and signal detonated devices capable of working through jamming counter measures.
In memory of their brethren killed and injured in Iraq and Afghanistan by Iran exported IED technology. US Department of Defense reports that Iran is directly responsible for at least 608 American military deaths in Iraq between 2003-2011, 17% of US personnel deaths in that time period. Not to mention Iraq civilians, including non-combatants such as woman and children.
Congressional studies report that IED related casualties including both death and wounded represent ~70% for Iraq and 54% for Afghanistan of the total casualty population.
In Iraq and Afghanistan throughout this time Iran IRGC operatives trafficked Iranian made arms-including rifles, mortars, artillery shells and roadside bomb components to insurgent groups, contributing to deadly attacks against coalition force.
The US finally made a statement on accountability for these actions when IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani-the father of the modern Iranian terrorist IED devices-was killed by a US drone strike in January 2020. Soleimani was to the IED what Dr. Fauci was to all things COVID: he was the leader singularly responsible for the effectiveness of IEDs in Afghan and Iraq.
Iran responded by launching more than a dozen ballistic missiles at Ain al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq, with over 100 U.S. service members stationed at that air base suffering traumatic brain injuries in the attack.
In the years since, Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces such as Kataib Hezbollah, Harakat al-Nujaba, and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq have carried out over 180 rocket, missile, and drone attacks targeting U.S. military personnel in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan, most of which the American public never heard about unless you pay attention to such matters.
All of which was happening under President Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin with little to no response from the US.
Additional incidents include March 23, 2023 when an Iranian drone struck a US base near Hasakah, Syria, killing one American contractor and wounding five U.S. troops, and January 28, 2024 when Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian regime-backed terror group, launched a drone strike on Tower 22, a US logistics post in northeastern Jordan, killing three American soldiers and injuring more than 40 others.
And the memory of the 7 October 2023 Iran proxy Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel that killed some ~1700 people, including innocent civilians attending a concert in proximity to the necessary Israel and Gaza border. A necessity because since 2005 Iran funded terrorist activities including the extensive tunneling and advance weaponry Hamas used in the attack.
US military don’t yearn or long for war-no serious service member looks forward to a time when they can bring their training to bear to close with and kill the enemy: but if America calls, we/they train to do exactly that, to make-as George Patton best said-that “dumb SOB on the other side to give his life for his country.”
That is why Americans serve and that is why we accept the downside potential that doing so may mean making the ultimate sacrifice for our country: for America.
The notion that we have no bone to pick with Iran, or that this was somehow a dubious or questionable service is ignorant, insulting, misguided and shallow. The product of armchair quarterback types who can sit back and ponder these matters with no skin in the game and all the time in the world to come up with pithy, click-bait cutesy thoughts and esoteric six degrees of freedom takes on the world that ignore the basic reality playing out in places like Libya, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza and hundreds of hot spots around the globe where simmering brush fires and wars are happening as we speak.
With the only thing truly keeping our citizens safe is that “rough men stand ready to do battle” to protect our way of life and safety, often through reputation alone.
Perhaps it is the fact that Trump did this, much like the Maduro raid. We’ve had a war on drugs for most of-well-all of my adult life. Decades ago (44 years), I was deployed to Guantanamo and the Truman Annex at Key West, Fla for an exercise called Ocean Venture. One of the aspects of the exercise was conducting counter-drug actions-surveillance, reconnaissance, interdiction where possible, boarding, etc.
One thing this Buck Sergeant did not understand was the rules of engagement that prevented the good guys-us-from shooting-if necessary-the bad guys-them-when we knew they were ferrying narcotics-weed-drugs to Mexico or America.
The bar was high at the time, the nervous factor too high, the fear of making a mistake-goodness forbid that we would mistake a 5 or 6 outboard, 500K dollar tourist boat beating the crap out of themselves doing 40knots across the ocean for a drug runner boat…
It took a sustained level of over 100K overdose deaths a year and a president who is not a politician to do something about that equation.
Were all the other politicians who came before him simple-timid-not serious? What is the overdose death rate for 2025? Why has it gone down?
I will finish with this little gem about Iran.
No other country in the world has arguably been allowed to maintain seemingly good relations in terms of the United Nations while advocating-openly, loudly and proudly-for the annihilation of another country (Israel-as well as the US.)
Iran has long and strangely been allowed to export terrorism with seeming impunity for some 47 years right up to the past month. The list of their actions against the US is long and deadly and mostly without any measure of a satisfactory response over the years except for economic measures.
The US has not pursued an “eye for an eye” policy with the Iranians over the years and it resulted in bolder Iranian actions, as well as their proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, with puzzlingly passive US reactions: until recently.
If any believe our recent actions against Iran are over the top, unnecessary, unfounded, not justified, illegal, immoral-whatever you think-from a military standpoint such a sentiment just continues-and explains-why those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
For many of the years Iran exported terrorism and seemingly acted with impunity while the US response was feckless-unserious-without measurable impact.
When President Obama was playing kissy-face with the Iranians to seek a nuclear missile agreement at any cost-he kept those efforts secret from the public, which did not find out about them until after Obama won reelection. When we discovered the talks started before the election.
Which-coupled with the Benghazi disaster that was also lied about and attributed to an anti-Muslim video-would likely have spelled disaster for Obama had the truth been known.
Obama basically lied through spokesman Ben Rhode’s teeth about this negotiation that 86% of Americans polled on the topic were against.
One of the accommodations made was to stand down an investigation into a US based Hezbollah money-laundering effort funding terrorism in the Gulf that involved drug, weapons and various US based criminal activity that became over time a billion-dollar effort that was funding overseas terror activity. Project Cassandra was stood down at the direction of Obama to protect negotiations and seek favor with Iran.
I’ve gone long (again,) but as we say in the military, what are your questions pertaining to why Iran now?
Max Dribbler
5 March 2026
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