{"id":18753,"date":"2026-03-14T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/18753\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:13:08","slug":"the-despicable-disgrace-of-the-call-off-the-war-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/18753\/","title":{"rendered":"The despicable disgrace of the ‘call off the war’ crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019d like to believe that the negative coverage of the Iran war so rampant in the media is simply more Trump Derangement Syndrome, but it\u2019s plainly also about how the president\u2019s firm actions expose how pathetically the same elites applauded President Barack Obama\u2019s misbegotten Middle East policies, and not just his sad nuclear deal with Tehran.<\/p>\n

To simplify things, consider The Atlantic\u2019s Jeffrey Goldberg, the dean of elite liberal political analysis, who\u2019s actively sneering at the joint US-Israeli effort to defang an entity that for five decades has called them \u201cThe Great Satan\u201d and \u201cThe Little Satan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about \u2018imminent\u2019 threats that require \u2018preemptive\u2019 strikes,\u201d he huffs, \u201cbut we should dispense with such statements: Iran is not presenting immediate danger to the United States or Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, because the two nations took out Tehran\u2019s nuclear program last year, as it was weeks from producing<\/a> usable weapons, and they\u2019ve acted before it could rebuild its defenses and offensive conventional forces to shield it as it recovered that capability.<\/p>\n

The imminent threat was to become too tough to take out.<\/p>\n

And Iran\u2019s lunatic bombing of almost every country<\/a> now within its range proves that it was and is a threat to the entire civilized world<\/a>: Just imagine it with the long-range missiles and nukes that it never stopped developing.<\/p>\n

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But of course Jeff Goldberg was one of Obama\u2019s chief media sycophants<\/p>\n

He asked Obama how he could possibly understand the Iranian regime as both thoroughly antisemitic and \u201cpractical,\u201d \u201cresponsive to incentive\u201d and \u201crational\u201d \u2014 and accepted without question Obama\u2019s blithe reply that \u201cthe fact that the supreme leader is antisemitic doesn\u2019t mean that this overrides all of his other considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n

What poppycock: Those \u201cother considerations\u201d centered on a determined drive at regional domination and a certainty that going nuclear was the only sure way to ensure the regime\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n

Obama & Co. simply fantasized<\/a> that a mature Islamic Republic would happily become a normal power if bribed sufficiently \u2014 and fanboys like Goldberg swooned.<\/p>\n

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The 2015 Iran deal lifted sanctions that had the regime on the rocks, instead delivering it hundreds of billions of dollars in exchange for nuclear inspections and theoretical limits on enriched uranium.<\/p>\n

And those restrictions would have expired on set deadlines, with the larger deal then completely legitimizing Iran going nuclear.<\/p>\n

At best, it kicked the can down the road a decade or two, at the price of drastically boosting the threat in the meantime.<\/p>\n

Rather than normalize, Iran used Obama\u2019s cash bath to flow funds to its regional proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis and bolster Bashar al-Assad\u2019s brutal grip on Syria.<\/p>\n

Of course, Obama\u2019s media cheerleaders similarly supported his decision to abandon his red line in Syria, papering over that regime\u2019s atrocities against its citizens \u2014 which led to a four-year civil war, millions of refugees flooding Europe and then the rise of ISIS, which is still inspiring mass-murder attempts on American soil.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These deep thinkers are now pushing President Donald Trump to end Epic Fury before finishes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, European powers are spinning out because the oil-price spike has again exposed their deep dependence on foreign energy. Having sacrificed their own economies to the climate cult, they\u2019re still funding Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine by buying Russian energy, and would surely kowtow to Iran if only it would let the oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

But let us not forget the Democrats.<\/p>\n

Set aside radicals like Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and even rabid anti-Trumper Sens. Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Chris Van Hollen. Supposed centrists such as Sens. Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen \u00a0and Mark Warner are signing on to suggestions that US forces may be complicit in war crimes.<\/p>\n

And while New York\u2019s own Sen. Chuck Schumer \u2014 the self-proclaimed \u201cguardian\u201d of Israel \u2014 admits that \u201cconfronting Iran\u2019s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength,\u201d he falls back on quibbles that Team Trump hasn\u2019t provided \u201cthe American people with critical details about the scope and immediacy of the threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once, both parties would unite behind the troops at times of military action.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fine to disagree about war aims and strategy. But the Democrats\u2019 attacks now \u2014 on efforts aimed at fulfilling both parties\u2019 acknowledged belief in a nuke-deficient Iran \u2014 are a disgrace for the ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019d like to believe that the negative coverage of the Iran war so rampant in the media is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2019,2698,38,2708,34,9060,48,269,212,649,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-18753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-chuck-schumer","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-iran-deal","14":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","15":"tag-nuclear-weapons","16":"tag-operation-epic-fury","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116225822085599723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}