True, the 300 billion dollars in the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is not coming from US taxpayers. Democrats and the media are lying through their teeth about that. But, ultimately, it’s a distinction without a difference. The problem is the 300 billion itself. Iran will use the 300 billion to restart their nuclear weapons program. The Islamic Republic is evil. It cannot be trusted.
Trump’s deal is a bad one. It doesn’t help that he signed the Iran MOU at the Palace of Versailles, where, on June 28, 1919, German representatives signed the treaty with the Allied powers formally ending World War I.
The Islamic Republic should get nothing. It’s bad enough that Trump is leaving the regime in place. For forty-seven years, we’ve put up with clerical fascism in Iran. I wanted my sons to live in a post-Islamic Republic world. It should not fall to Israel to confront Iran and its proxies—Hamas and Hezbollah. We had an opportunity to change the course of history. Trump walked away from it.
I like Trump, but he has made a monumental mistake. If the MOU were a stable ceasefire that opened the Straits of Hormuz to get Republicans past the Midterms, that would be one thing, but wrapping negotiations in a Security Council guarantee that handcuffs the US in future action tells me that it isn’t merely an electoral strategy. I am disappointed in the President.
The stock market is booming. The price of oil is dropping. Every county in northeast Wisconsin is back under $3.95 per gallon on average. Prices in Green Bay are down around 67 cents a gallon from a month ago. I’d much rather have higher gas prices than see the Islamic Republic of Iran survive.
Trump is too sensitive to criticism. Doing the right thing sometimes comes with hardship. I don’t accept his rationalization about heading off depression and all the rest of it.
I am also disappointed in my fellow Americans. So many of them wanted Trump to end hostilities with the Islamic Republic. What happened to the patriotism that saw us through WWII? Can we not count on the younger generations to fight for our Republic? It’s their Republic, too.
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Much of the sentiment against preemptive war in Iran is driven by a shift in attitudes towards Israel among younger conservatives, who are increasingly questioning the decades-old status quo of the US-Israel relationship, arguing that unconditional support for Israel (a false premise) contradicts America First foreign policy principles.
Recent surveys, including data from Pew Research and the IMEU Policy Project, indicate that as much as 57 percent of young Republicans hold an unfavorable view of Israel.
As I have shown in several articles on this platform, changing attitudes towards Israel among younger conservatives are not so much about America First (any true America First paradigm would mind international threats) but are much more rooted in a resurgent antisemitism, the same ancient hatred animating the progressive left.
Rampant ziophobia comes with growing support for Islamism. Increasingly, younger conservatives are seeing an alliance between Christians and Muslims against the Jews. Bizarrely, they resort to progressive left arguments that Muslims are flocking to the West because the West is assaulting the Middle East.
That’s not why the Muslims are invading the West. They’re invading the West to make it Islamic. Younger conservatives are increasingly adopting the postmodernist standpoint of postcolonial theory, and they appear unaware of it. Moreover, they are oblivious to the fact that the transnational corporate elite is behind it. The Red-Green Alliance and its backers are enjoying the rise of a third column in America.
It’s truly frightening that younger conservatives would shift to Islamophilia. Antisemitism famously brought the Muslims and the Nazis together. The growing affinity between younger conservatives today and Islamization is a bad sign. It signals that the far right in America is developing fascist sympathies. These sympathies are already present in the Red-Green Alliance. Will the right become what they are already accused of being?
Jew-hatred is the glue that holds this monstrosity together. The idea that the Jews are a greater threat to the West than Muslims reveals a profound idiocy among younger conservatives that they cannot dismiss by asking why Boomers support Israel.
Boomers support Israel because they grasp the danger Islam poses to the world. Boomers have the wisdom of awareness and experience. Forty-seven years is a long time.
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