OPINION:
Maybe it’s just me, but I would rather avoid a nuclear blast than keep my gasoline $1 cheaper and avoid the few-cents-per-loaf increase in the price of bread.
Make no mistake: If Iran gets nuclear weapons, and it will if the current regime stays in power, it will rain them down upon every city in America. The regime’s 47-year-long chant of “Death to America” is not a meaningless statement.
Unlike Russia, China or even North Korea, Iran will show no restraint in using nukes against us. The Islamic republic has a death wish. It does not believe in peace because of “mutual destruction.” If Americans think that we will not suffer such a fate because we are thousands of miles from Iran, think again.
Iran has already demonstrated that it has a missile capable of hitting a target 3,500 miles from its launch, with accuracy. It is just a matter of too short a period of time before it gets one that can reach America.
All Americans should thank God that our country now has a president who stubbornly refuses to allow Iran to get the bomb.
I only wish he would stop talking about a negotiated peace with the regime, or what is left of it. That government will never let us have peace; it must be removed. Yet it has the gall to insist that it has the right to extort $1,000,000 per oil tanker for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. If that happens, the cost of everything will certainly remain high.
President Trump has found Iran’s Achilles’ heel with the blockade. Some time will be needed for that strategy to bring the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its knees.
But the political left constantly attacks our president for prolonging the Iranian conflict, even though only a few Americans have died as a result and only one plane has been shot down.
The left’s friends in the mainstream media constantly attack President Trump in an effort to weaken his resolve, preying on people’s “It’s the economy, stupid” fears with the election coming in November. Actually, what matters most is not dying, stupid.
GREGORY MCCARTHY
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
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