After yesterday’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps performance trying to attack an American military base in Jordan, on top of all the other attacks they’ve made, and all the things they’ve refused to say about a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz deal — these are radical Islamists who hate America, hate Israel, deluded into thinking that they can win the war and run the Middle East, and continue to sponsor terrorism and build nuclear weapons.
It’s one thing after another with them, and I think it’s fair to say that negotiations are going nowhere. President Trump is doing what no other president has done, trying to bring peace and freedom to the Middle East and stop the Iranians, and stop their nuclear ambitions — but I think his options right now are battlefield and major combat operations, not diplomacy. And I support this.
And I would simply add the importance of Economic Fury, maxing out all sanctions, Kharg Island, hammering again their nuclear facilities and capabilities that may or may not be left. These are not rational people. It’s a theocratic regime, run by militarists and Marxists. The end result is escalation, which right now is inevitable. The president will make his mind up, but I think the handwriting is on the wall. Resumption or return to major combat operations and a tightening of the economic screws. It’s not tit for tat.
I’m still believing in unconditional surrender. And finally, covert operations. I assume there has already been a presidential finding on covert operations by our CIA and other secret intelligence services. And I am assuming hand-in-glove work with the Israeli Mossad. This is an Iranian version of the Reagan Doctrine, which brought down Soviet communism without firing a shot, but using covert operations to help freedom fighters in Poland and Eastern Europe and Latin America.
This could be the Trump version of the Reagan doctrine, as already practiced in Venezuela and probably soon in Cuba. Yet most pressingly and importantly practiced right now in Iran. Whether Reza Pahlavi, or a temporary leader or group of leaders, or whoever else, any covert operations that will move us in the direction of regime change must be a vital part of our war strategy.