No Decent American Wants War. And That Includes President Trump.

January 4, 2020 1:11p

No decent American wants war. And that includes President Trump. But the Iranians have been at war with us since 1979 when that weakling President Jimmy Carter pressured the pro-western Shah of Iran to abdicate power, aided Ayatollah Khomeini's return from exile in France, encouraged the Islamic Revolution, and then did nothing when our embassy in Tehran was invaded and our citizens taken hostage for 444 days..

In the past few months, the Iranians have harassed our ships, downed our drone, attacked a Saudi oil facility, killed an American defense contractor, wounded four servicemen, attacked our embassy in Baghdad, and more.

Responding without military force was clearly not deterring Iranian aggression. Hopefully, the death of General Soleimani will. But if it doesn't, we'll properly exchange tit-for-tat violence that is still well short of all out war.

Donald Trump did the right thing. How else should he have responded to Iran's acts of war? Do nothing like Jimmy Carter did? Or transfer billions of dollars to Iran like Barack Obama did?

If the Trump-hating Democrats had any decency about them, they'd be praising Soleimani's death to present a united front against our enemies. But since Democrats view Trump as the bigger enemy, they side with the Iranians; our actual enemy.

It's disgraceful. And dangerous.