About the kinetic events that began in Iran on Saturday, it is important to keep the words of George Santayana:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

We hear that all the time and Andrew O’Hehir of Salon proved it true yet again. He wrote: “Trump’s war on Iran is America’s shame, and the world’s failure”. Oh, my Aunt Fanny.

War is not a parlor game. It is deadly. As the Mother of a soldier and the Aunt of two more, the news this morning that three soldiers had been killed hit super hard. None of my family’s members are currently deployed. I pray for those who are in harm’s way.

For the past 70 years, feckless bureaucrats led our military into killing machines that mowed them down. That is what we hired Donald Trump to stop. We don’t want endless and mindless wars that try to make seventh century savages into proper Persians, in this case.

Persia/Iran brings us to Trump and the current kinetic action. Andrew O’Hehir subtitles his article: “Trump’s attack on Iran is an act of vanity and desperation, fueled by America’s collective moral blindness”. O’Hehir doesn’t remember history and is uninterested in learning. He begins:

Well, the woke Marxist liberals wouldn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, and wouldn’t even let him have Greenland as a treat. So, really, what choice did he have?

The joke isn’t funny, I agree. That’s because it comes too close to the truth. There are various ways to understand the U.S.-Israeli bombing attack on Iran launched on Saturday morning, which has killed several hundred people so far, including the Iranian regime’s senior religious leader, Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. None of them have anything to do with democratic legitimacy or coherent geopolitical strategy. This pseudo-war is based on false or dubious premises, has little or no popular support and professes unclear or unachievable goals.

Really not funny. Ugh. O’Hehir thinks that the Iranian Mullahs’ government is legitimately elected. That’s cute. The current attack has little or no popular support. Our goal is to kill the Iranian leadership. How difficult is that to understand?

One of my favorite things is people pretending to be utterly baffled why America is striking the mullahs. https://t.co/8CpJZ6N1Fe

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 1, 2026

Our beef with the Iranian government began in 1979. From History Net.com:

Early on Nov. 4, 1979, hundreds of Iranian science and engineering students — furious that American President Jimmy Carter had granted asylum to the ailing and recently exiled Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi — descended on the chained gate and 8- to 12-foot-high brick walls of the chancery, the main building of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Although the diplomats, staff and military personnel within the compound had every reason to be alarmed, they should not have been surprised.

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In the November attack the insurgents — members of a fundamentalist group calling itself the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line — had initially planned the incursion only as a symbolic show of force. “It was supposed to be a small, short-term affair,” Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, one of the leaders of the takeover, told a GQ reporter in 2009. “We were just a bunch of students who wanted to show our dismay at the United States. After that it got out of control.”

Yeah, okay, whatever. The hostages were released when Ronald Reagan took office. They were held for 444 days. The psychological damage is unbelievable.

In 1983, the Marine Barracks in Beirut were bombed killing 245 military personnel. Many years later, Iranian officials admitted that the country was behind the bombing:

On October 1st, Fox News reported a startling revelation: “Iran’s regime officially admitted its role in the terrorist bombing that killed 241 American soldiers, 220 marines, 18 sailors, 3 soldiers, 17 American civilians, and 58 French soldiers in the 1983 terrorist attack in Beirut…”

This revelation is based on a translated text provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). The focus of this report is the remarks of Isa Tabatabai, who served as the representative of Khomeini and later Khamenei in Lebanon. These remarks were made during an interview and were initially published by the Iranian regime’s news agency ‘IRNA’ on September 13. Interestingly, ‘IRNA’ later removed this report from its website, sparking further intrigue.

Isa Tabatabai’s confessions reveal a chilling account:

“With the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Hezbollah was formed. Its military base was established in my house for two years, where more than seventy individuals signed martyrdom contracts. These individuals were provided with the necessary resources. I received a command for a martyrdom operation from the Imam (Khomenei), and he emphasized its permissibility thrice. I attempted to secure a written petition to present as a gift to the Imam’s children (Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad) in Lebanon. On the night of the petition, I composed it and delivered it first thing in the morning. Mr. Saneyi, who received it, returned with the Imam’s response. He affirmed that the Imam found it sincere and honest, stating that even a thousand signatures from others would not change his acceptance. I swiftly went to Lebanon and prepared the ground for the martyrdom operation targeting the Americans and Israelis. The foundation of Hezbollah was laid in the Baalbek region, with the involvement of IRGC personnel.”

The Beirut Barracks Bombings: A Tragic Day in History

October 23, 1983, marked a devastating day in history when the world was shaken by news of a suicide attack on the American and French Marine barracks in Beirut, resulting in 299 deaths. This suicide attack, known in the Iranian regime’s literature as ‘Operation Marines,’ occurred at 6:20 in the morning. Shortly thereafter, another explosion occurred at the French paratroopers’ location. In total, 241 American soldiers, 58 French soldiers, and 6 civilians lost their lives, with hundreds more injured.

The Beirut barracks bombings involved the transportation and detonation of approximately 1,000 kilograms of explosives, equivalent to 15,000 to 21,000 pounds of TNT, within the buildings housing the peacekeepers of the Multinational Forces in Lebanon (MNF), notably the American Marines and the French Armed Forces. These American soldiers were part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces deployed to help end Lebanon’s civil war.

The materials used in this horrific attack, as confirmed by the regime’s media, had an explosive power equivalent to 6,000 kilograms of TNT. At the time, the United States declared it as the largest non-nuclear explosion globally.

Hours after the explosions, an organization called ‘Islamic Jihad,’ created and supported by Iran and Syria, took responsibility for the attack. The United States attributed Hezbollah as responsible for this act of terrorism, further implicating the Iranian regime in the tragedy. Hezbollah also engaged in hostage-taking of Westerners in Lebanon, which the Iranian regime used for political bargaining with Western governments.

For 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq, our personnel dealt with IED’s, VBIED’s and EFP’s. Look them up.

Brian Castner combed over the armored vehicle, mostly intact aside from entry and exit holes rimmed with molten copper that had since cooled.

The U.S. soldiers who had been inside were medevaced near Kirkuk that summer in 2006, leaving the Air Force bomb technician alone with the vehicle. Pools of blood simmered under the Iraqi sun, near what one soldier left behind.

“There was still one foot left in the Humvee,” Castner said.

The targeted U.S. killing early Friday of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has heightened tensions between Iran and the United States.

But it also refocused attention on Soleimani’s legacy in Iraq, where sophisticated weapons and tactics he oversaw menaced U.S. troops for years, leaving a trail of dead and wounded service members.

Finally, I have been writing about Mahsa Amini for three years now. She was murdered by the Iranian Morality Police. I worried that Trump would try to do Iran in some halfway method. No great kinetic activity. I don’t worry any more.

Don’t forget the 30,000+ that were killed by the regime in protests recently.

This could be called a “humanitarian rescue mission”. BUT Trump isn’t a peacenik, an isolationist or a humanitarian. He not begging for love from the Nobel crowd either. You can read the rest of O’Hehir’s piece but he doesn’t know history or even recent current events.

Sad for him. Truly.

Featured Image: Iran Hostage Crisis student demonstration, Washington, D.C./Wikimedia Commons.org/cropped/Public Domain