RON HART: ‘War! What is it Good For?’ We’ll Find Out Pretty Soon.

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The United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites. The operation had such an intensely dramatic name—Epic Fury—that even fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s action movies thought, “Eh, not a bad title.”

Like most everything, war ultimately comes down to money. Iran’s strict Muslim regime fired missiles at enemy oil ships and stockpiles, sending oil prices up. The radical Islamic leadership mostly attacked in the Straits of Hormuz. While mildly harmful, this was not nearly as damaging as their religion’s historic treatment of the Gays of Hormuz. (RELATED: European Ally Turns Back On US For China Over Iran War)

The partisan politics of the Internet — blessed altar of absurdity — responded predictably. The left hates it (even though Iran treats women like dirt and mows down 30,000 or so protestors), because Trump did something about it. And the MAGA-base vacillates between loving to watch a good ass whooping and feeling betrayed because Trump ran on no “forever wars.”

Polls show that half our country applauds the preemptive attack and half opposes it. It wouldn’t surprise me if an Obama-appointed district judge orders Trump to reinstall Supreme Leader Khomeini.

At a minimum, we prevent a radical Islamic theocracy from getting a nuclear bomb. Secondly, by snatching the Venezuelan thug Maduro out of his Snuggie at his home virtually untouched, this Iran action sends a huge military flex to the rest of the world.

Say what you will about Trump, he is willing to do something other than talk about a 47-year-old problem in Iran. Through the proxies they fund, like Hezbollah and the Houthis, Iran has murdered people all over the world. Joe Biden just tried to appease them. He feared that if he went after the Houthis, he might provoke blowback from The Blowfish.

There is one clear policy objective Biden would have had if Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini had to be replaced. Under his administration, that replacement would have to be a woman of color.

Who replaces Khomeini is key. Ten percent of Iranians are fanatical Muslims who mourn his recent death. Optimism remains among those followers, as it should. If history has taught us anything in the past 2,500 years, it is that part of the Middle East leads the world in resurrection rates. (RELATED: Trump Officials: We Could’ve Cut An ‘Obama-Plus’ Iran Deal — But Tehran Kept Stalling)

Iran faces growing internal pressure for change due to economic hardship (inflation, currency crisis, oil) and public dissatisfaction, all exacerbated by these attacks. I am no Islamic theologian, but if you get caught exacerbating in Iran, it is punishable by cutting something off.

Surveys show a strong Iranian desire for new systems. Until now, the regime’s powerful security apparatus has held the population under militaristic thrall and some fake, self-righteous theocracy, which is essentially a kleptocracy. By Trump and Israel knocking out Iran’s defense systems, it exposed a paper tiger and emboldened demands for change.

As an important aside, Iran’s leaders, like all oppressors from Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler to Castro and Maduro, disarm its citizens. This makes the notion of the Iranian citizens rising up against the remaining Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps formidable. It also augers against those who would meddle with United States’ citizens’ Second Amendment rights.

The truth lies in an old saying that, “The first casualty of war is the truth.” For example, Iran says it has 14 submarines ready to pounce. Last week they were battleships. Many thought we destroyed their nuclear ambitions in the bunker buster attacks last year. Apparently, Iranian nuclear capabilities grew back faster than Trump’s ear. (RELATED: US Serves Iran Taste Of Its Own Medicine In Kamikaze Attacks)

I have a wait-and-see attitude about this. But I must admit, when I saw “Epic Fury” suddenly featured the news screens on Friday, I thought it was Hillary’s reaction to Bill’s Epstein testimony. I bet she wished she could have kept him under oath for a few questions of her own. Apparently, Bill had an attraction to young women with black boxes over their faces.

Trump has delivered a devastating blow to our existential threats, Russia and China. China’s two top-sanctioned oil suppliers were Iran and Venezuela. Russia depends on Iran for cheap drones and bombs they need to make war on Ukraine.

If all Trump’s Donroe Doctrine works out, soon it will be safe for us to vacation in Cuba, Iran and Venezuela – and, maybe, eventually, in the Somali region of Minnesota.

A libertarian op-ed humorist and award-winning author, Ron does radio and TV commentary. He can be contacted at Ron@RonaldHart.com or @RonaldHart on X.

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