FINALLY.
Forty-seven Years
In 1979, the seizure of the Embassy of the United States in Tehran the start of Iran’s perceived war on America.
In 2026, we finally noticed.
I am a libertarian minarchist. I believe that the government should be as small as possible—but as you may note from that statement, it implies that there is some sort of government. Ideally, one that—among a very limited set of duties—exercises military capabilities in the protection of the country.
And for a long, long time it has been abundantly clear to anyone willing to look that Iran is a threat to the world in general, and the United States in particular. “Death to the Great Satan”, anybody?
Even so, we put up with a LOT of crap from them. Forty-seven years worth of crap, as a matter of fact. Pretty much my entire life. That’s a relationship that’s the poster child for “live and let live”. You do your best to get along with your crazy neighbors, as it were.
Then your crazy neighbor starts killing people.
Lots of people.
Wholesale, indiscriminate slaughter of dissidents and protesters who are finally tired of living under a miserable autocratic regime run by secret police, murder squads, and other assorted rat-bastards.1
If you’re in doubt that this has caused a problem, please note that we’re their distant neighbors. There are plenty of folks (Saudia Arabia, Quatar, Jordan, and others) who are right there in the same neighborhood. After forty-seven years of political sweat, tolerance, and failed attempts at live-and-let-live, they’re done, too.
You’ve got to give the mullahs credit, though. Working tirelessly for nearly five decades to be the top dog in the Despicable Human Being contest while literally pissing off the entire world is no small feat.
I am glad they are finally getting the reward they deserve.
Someone’s going to show up here and “Hurr-hurr” explain that the US is no better. Bub, I know that’s not true: because here, you feel safe saying that. Over there, especially recently, it was a death sentence.
Truth.
Amen