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Posted on 06/26/2026 5:32:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
We view dealings with Iran from one election to another, whereas Iran views its wars as a global matter that affects everything and runs on a cosmic timetable.
Recently, I watched the 1966 epic Khartoum, with Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier. Khartoum dramatizes the struggle between British General Charles Gordon and the Sudanese religious leader Muhammad Ahmad (the Mahdi) during the 1880s siege of Khartoum. In the film, the Mahdi informs General Gordon that Allah has commanded him to pray at every major mosque in the world and kill all who refuse to submit to him.
Whether entirely accurate or not, the scene captures a challenge secular governments have faced throughout history: confronting movements that view political objectives not as interests to be negotiated, but as divine commands to be fulfilled. How little has changed.
If the West wants to understand Iran, it must begin with a simple but uncomfortable truth: Iran does not see its proxies as separate entities. It sees them as extensions of Iran itself—armed, funded, trained, and ideologically fused to the Islamic Republic. Attack a proxy, and in Iran’s eyes, you have attacked Iran and, by extension, its divine destiny. This is not a metaphor. It is Iran’s fundamental doctrine.
Western analysts routinely miss this. They treat Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, and an entire constellation of Iraqi and Syrian militias as independent actors with local agendas. Iran does not. Iran sees its roughly 20–30 proxy and partner militias as the instruments through which it intends to shape—and ultimately dominate—the regional order.
These groups operate not only across the Middle East, but in Asia, Africa, Europe, and even North America, where Iranian operatives and proxy-linked networks have carried out surveillance and assassination plots for decades.
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So then, if they are all in on it, keep them all out of America.
Easy.
Yep, nothing says ‘religion’ and God like lobbing missiles at your neighbors, killing your own citizens, and treating women like possessions.
Koran says it’s okay..........
Agreed.
“Easy.”
Not so far apparently. And not till a sufficient number of Westerners understand the truth of what’s in the article.
The demonic entity that lives in the well in Qom, Iran, tells the Ayatollah’s what to do.
“Yep, nothing says ‘religion’ and God like lobbing missiles at your neighbors, killing your own citizens, and treating women like possessions.”
I believe you meant to be sarcastic or ironic, but I believe from their point of view your statement is correct.
It’s cult behavior. Truth is whatever the cult says it is. Behavior is erratic because anything is justified. There is no sense of the “greater good”. Obedience is freedom. Slavery is freedom. Everyone outside the cult is an enemy. Any higher power is simply a tool of the cult.
If we took our Christianity as seriously as Iran takes its twelver Islam, we would be a nation far more mighty than we are now.
Yet the Globalist Religion...
For a short time in the mid 2000s we had a Netflix account for purposes of exposing our girls to awesome movies. Khartoum was one that I wanted them to see, but Netflix refused to offer it.
Islam is a terrorist ideology, posing as a religion, that is incompatible with the Constitution of the United States and (what remains of) Western civilization.
Fixed. For which they pray five times a day. It is absolute and total psychological conditioning. Expect nothing less than a dishonest and venimous snake.
The River War by Churchill is an excellent book about the conflict.
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This is as obvious as a pie in the face. The usual negotiating we are used to everywhere else in the world doesn’t work in the middle east. Force of arms only cements their fanaticism even harder.
I think the West fully understands; however, the leadership of the West wants to ignore it so that we can all just get along. Alternatively, our leadership has developed self-loathing and hopes to destroy our civilization.
Islam is NOT a religion.
It is a murderous, bloodthirsty cult built on the rantings of a lunatic, pedophile con-man.
Islam has been at war with civilization for 1500 years. We are currently caught up in the latest escalation of that war.
It is one we dare not lose.
I’m not familiar with the author, but this is the best article from American Thinker that I read in years. It is absolutely correct.
NOW, someone tell Trump, Vance, et al that what they’re trying to do is talk people out of believing in their religion. Ain’t gonna happen. No matter how persuasive Trump thinks he is, he isn’t going to get them to change. End of story. Accept it & change tactics.
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