townhall | See, for too long we were asking the wrong question when tinpot
dictators dared hurt Americans. We asked, “What would a gender-fluid
Oppression Studies major at Yale do?” As I have observed before, the
correct question is “WWJC do?” – “What would Julius Caesar do?”
Trump
ordered hard hits at five Shiite militia weapon sites, and not with any
warnings either. They got one of ours, we got about two dozen of
theirs. Like the old joke about 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea,
that’s a good start.
The Iranians, whose Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps is the ultimate source of most of the Shiite terror in the
world, decided to respond in what they thought was a clever way: send a
few thousand of their camo-clad dummies to attack the embassy and hope
and pray a bunch of them got mowed down on camera. In the meantime, wave
a lot of banners, burn some stuff, and pound on the reinforced glass
for the press’s benefit.
But apparently, no one told the
“mourners,” as the austere scholars at the endlessly useless New York
Times dubbed the members of Islamic Antifa, that they were supposed to
get smoked. They went home with the embassy unseized. Getting martyred en masse is not that much fun when you’re just one sucker out of dozens – heck, they may run of virgins.
You don’t get to hurt Americans. Ever If you do, bad things will happen.
Welcome to the Trump Doctrine.
We
don’t want an escalation and we should show restraint where we can –
but killing Americans must be a red line, a real one, not an Obama one.
If this does escalate into a major confrontation, we need to keep some
principles in mind. We need to do more than “send messages." Pain should
be our message. Any strike should have a tactical (if not strategic
effect). Hitting the arms caches means they have fewer arms, and they
got the message. And we focus on destroying what the decisionmakers in
Tehran care about: sink some capital ships, vaporize a bunch of
aircraft, flatten a refinery. It’s even better when it can support the
Persian patriots in Iran who want to hang their oppressors from the lamp
posts.
“Proportionality” is a sucker’s game. Our goal should be
pain. Screw with America and we hurt you, mullahs. Personally. Not just
the idiots who do your dirty work. You and your toys.
