President Trump recently offered the Islamic Republic of Iran a 15-point plan to end the war. Beside provisions regarding opening the Strait of Hormuz, halting missile production and eliminating support for terror proxies, the centerpiece of the deal demands Iran surrender their enriched uranium, dismantle all nuclear factories and commit, with inspections, to never pursue nuclear weapons.

President Trump has been consistent, and with a sense of urgency, wanting to protect the United States from a nuclear Iran. In 2011, well before Donald Trump was a candidate for the presidency, and before Israel Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu spoke before the United Nations and in front of the U.S. Congress, he said, “We can’t allow Iran to go nuclear.”

With the noisy, politically motivated opposition reveling in negativity to America’s involvement in the war coming from the Democrats, Left-wing pundits and the Far-Right, it’s worthwhile remembering the simple reason for President Trump’s strategic plan to attack Iran with the placement of troops in harm’s way.

Let’s be clear what’s at stake.

At the instant an atomic bomb – like the one ignited over Hiroshima or the one that Iran was developing – is detonated, it creates heat hotter than the sun’s core. Scientists estimate the terrifying physics creates an unimaginable temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius. The resultant explosion produces heat, energy, and radiation unlike any other kind of chemical reaction.

If a nuclear weapon explodes in the heart of an American city or Tel Aviv or London or anywhere, it will evaporate, melt, obliterate and poison enormous areas. It would make the 9/11 damage to lower Manhattan look like a fender-bender. The effect on our civilization would not just be long TSA lines at airports, it would be worldwide chaos with consequences that would endanger mankind.

It would be like a hundred Black Plagues.

It is the United States Commander in Chief’s job description to keep the 330+ millions of us safe. It may be inconvenient to face dangers and to conduct the necessary diplomatic and military actions. But that’s what they were elected to do. President Trump governs in a time when nine countries are armed with over 12 thousand nuclear weapons. Even belligerent North Korea has about four dozen. Pakistan and India, two countries that are always at each other’s throats, each possess about 175 nukes. So far, so good.

And yet, it seems that only President Trump has grasped the menace of the wild, rogue, theocratic, threatening, apocalyptic Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran having atomic bombs in her arsenal. His predecessors all found ways to kick the Iranian atomic can down the road.

In 2025, in cooperation with Israel, President Trump as part of Operation Midnight Hammer ordered an attack on Iran’s nuclear factories. The B-2 bombers did extensive damage. Recently, when Iranian diplomats revealed that they still controlled about 900 pounds of 60% enriched uranium and advised that it would be sufficient for eleven atomic bombs, the President ordered Operation Epic Fury. Despite the United States controlling the battlefield, Iran has yet to capitulate. America needs to reopen the Straits of Hormuz, retrieve the uranium, and facilitate a regime change.

Looking further back, President John F. Kennedy, in the October 1962 Cuba missile crisis, faced the danger of a nuclear confrontation. The Soviets had placed intermediate range missiles capable of carrying a nuclear weapon near to our shores. President Kennedy stood strong during what many consider the closest to superpower animosity escalating into a nuclear exchange.

With good fortune, and some see it as Divine intervention, Prime Minister Netanyahu is now waging war to eliminate Iran’s weapons with a likeminded and staunch ally as President Trump.

For four decades Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has focused on the Iranian danger. Facing the encirclement of his country by Iranian-backed terrorist proxies and the anticipation of a nuclear Iran, Netanyahu has made preventing a nuclear Iran his obsession. He has campaigned to raise awareness at the United Nations and in front of Congress. Bibi spoke up even when the audiences were hostile.

Winston Churchill said, “The price of greatness is responsibility.” Men have sought and won the American presidency only to then avoid the associated responsibility. President Obama and his team negotiated the appeasement-based JCPOA that gave Iran billions and a sunsetting pathway to a nuclear weapon. It allowed enrichment, missile development and the funding of terrorist proxies. President Biden was essentially asleep at the switch and removed the economic sanctions put in place during Trump’s first term. Many experts feel the October 7th War was a result of the President Biden’s weakness.

President Trump is that responsible president. You would like to think that more Democrat and Far-Right American leaders, despite all the Trump Derangement Syndrome and political expediency, would recognize the reality, urgency and seriousness of the Iranian nuclear threat and justify being supportive. The negativity and wishfulness for failure by our troops if not seditious is unpatriotic. All the “No Kings” rallies, impeachment mischief, media biased disinformation, and Hollywood histrionics are irresponsible distractions from the bravery of our troops and the decisiveness of our leadership.

Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1981 ordered an airstrike using newly acquired F-16s to destroy Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. He established the Begin Doctrine and with the Osirak attack provided evidence that Israel would not allow a belligerent country to possess a weapon capable of causing another Holocaust. One of the most compelling books about the attack, reflecting the awesome power of an atomic bomb, is appropriately titled, “Raid on the Sun.”

We are watching President Trump wage a dominant kinetic war, in partnership with Israel. Trump faces a series of complex challenges but is playing his very strong military hand and maneuvering diplomatically. He has not forgotten that the prize is to safeguard the world from a nuclear Iran under the control of madmen. President Trump deserves all Americans’ support.

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