A Moment 46 Years in the Making

Posted: June 22, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, middle east, war
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I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

General James “mad dog” Mathis

Let’s cut to the chase.

Donald Trump was 33 years old when the Iranians Mullahs took our people hostages.

For 46 years he has seen them chant “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” and pursue policies toward that end practically unchecked and unhindered and become the number one source of worldwide terror while only being checked twice.

Once by Ronald Reagan whose mere election was enough to convince Iran that holding our people hostage would be the end of the Islamic Republic. With the hostages released Reagan choose to let them the regime survive.

And briefly by George W Bush who while recognizing them as part of the “Axis of Evil” and had armies to the east and the west of the nation and a Navy to their south, choose not to take them out when they struck at our armed forces against us in Iraq.

Donald Trump, in both cases saw the end result of letting Iran off the hook not only in the spread of radical Islam throughout the world which dates from the time of the hostages but their pursuit of Nuclear Weapons which without a doubt would be distributed to terror groups.

Yet even so, unlike the Mullahs who seized and held our people, he gave them a fair warning, a chance to give up their nuclear weapons and survive as they are.

When they did not he ended their nuclear program for them. If are an American born before 1965 as I was and do not hate your country or are not paid by our enemies, the moment that the United States of America ended the Iranian Nuclear threat to the world is a moment of great satisfaction.

Why is he not going all in to destroy Iran and bring down the Mullahs? Because he understands that while a regime change forced by America might end well with the return of the Shah’s son it might also become the next Libya with every terror group in the world making a play for power.

So now that the choice to be a nuclear power is off the table he is giving them the basic Jacksonian choice as described by the late great Steven Den Bestie:

You leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone. You play fair with me and I’ll play fair with you. But if you fuck with me, I’ll kill you.”

While they may not realize it, the Islamic Republic of Iran is in the same position it was on the day Reagan was sworn in. They may think that the choice before them is: “Do we strike back at America and if so how and when?”

It is not.

The choice Donald Trump is giving them is: “Will the Islamic Republic survive or not?”

May they choose wisely.

Cause and Effect: “‘Never seen such operational security.’ ” Edition

Posted: June 21, 2025 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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I rarely drink but today I had a beer when I went out to eat around 5 pm and fell asleep just after the Redsox comeback against the Giants fell one base short. I woke up at 9 to find out the President had taken out three Iranian Nuke sties about an hour earlier and will give a speech in about 30 minutes to explain.

The Single most incredible thing about this attack was explained by Jennifer Griffin.

The text of the tweet:

FOX PENTAGON REPORTER: “In my 18 years at the Pentagon, I’ve never seen such operational security. There were NO LEAKS. NOBODY speaking about this. A complete blackout on information about Iran at the Pentagon for the last few days.” GREAT JOB, @SecDef Hegseth!

No leaks not a sausage from an operation involving hundreds if not thousands.

If you want to know why Trump and Hegseth fired so many people, now you know.

Israel’s and Iran’s Tactics are Both Consistent With Their War Aims

Posted: June 14, 2025 by datechguy in Israel, middle east
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David Horwitz: I’m a Jew. The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes we will all gather in Israel so that he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. [to the student] For it or against it?

UCSD Student: For it.

David Horwitz: Thank you coming and showing everybody what’s here

One thing that can be said about the Israel and Iran as they finally openly fight the war that’s been going on between them for decades (and let’s stop pretending this isn’t a war as nobody actually declares war anymore) as that both Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran are fighting this stage of their war using tactics that are completely consistent with their primary war goals.

Israel has made the Iranian nuclear program and those who are involved in it and those whose responsibility is to protect it as their primary target. This is completely consistent with their primary war aim which is to keep Iran from developing nuclear bombs which if loaded on their ballistic missiles would be used to destroy Israel. Only a few such missiles so armed would be necessary to do the trick so it is vital to the survival of the state of Israel to destroy this capability.

For this reason while other targets might be considered and targeted if the immediate tactical situation calls for it (such as enabling an uprising in Iran) but in the end all of these things must take second place to the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program.

Iran in contrast has one primary goal: Dead Jews.

The destruction of the state of Israel would be a crowning jewel to the mullahs but this is only because it would facilitate the extermination of the largest concentration of Jews in the world.

To this end Iran has launched Ballistic Missiles and drones at Israel in the same way that Germany launched the V1 & V2 rockets at England 80 years ago.

If they manage to hit a vital military target, all well and good but if it destroys cities and kills Jews than the missiles will have done their work. Even if intercepted the debris will fall upon Israel and hopefully kill Jews. The fall of the Jewish state and the rise of an Islamic Caliphate are all worthy long term goals for them but in the end it remains what it’s always been about killing Jews.

Because Dead Jews is what Islam in general and Iran in particular wants most of all.

Dear Iran: We Believe You Signed: Israel

Posted: June 13, 2025 by datechguy in Israel, middle east
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Major Carey of Virginia asked if I did not feel myself bound by my constitutional obligations to deliver up fugitives under the fugitive slave act. To this I replied that the Fugitive Slave act did not affect a foreign country, which Virginia claimed to be, and she must reckon it one of the infelicities of her position that insofar at least she was taken at her word

General Benjamin Butler 1861

A lot of people have a lot of things to say about the Israeli strike on Iranian Nuke sites but rather than get deeply into this let me just state the obvious:

  • Iran has openly spent years developing a nuclear program with the intent to destroy Israel.
  • Iran has openly spent considerable effort to make war on Israel through proxies.
  • Iran has publicly stated for decades their intent to destroy Israel, exterminate the Jews and has openly advanced that position worldwide at every opportunity.

Yesterday Israel gave a response to these forthright and open declarations by Iran that can be summed up in three simple words:

We believe you.

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