Cowards.
Their solution is always the same: Just give the bully your lunch money and hope he goes away.
Trump has a different perspective. It is more in alignment with our founders.
I agree completely-President Trump does have views on this more in line with our founders.
If we allow Iranians and other terrorists to get away with murder and destruction because we are too afraid to fight back because they might do more violence against us-then we might as well roll over now and surrender. That is what the Left wants.
I will not be beholden to that cowardly mindset.
I don’t want us to be at war, but I would rather accept the risk and even actual terrorist attacks on our country or interests than to cower in fear and let them do as they wish.
Like many here, I was an adult at the time of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, and had just finished a tour in the USN only months before. I was outraged at what Iran had done, and even though Operation Eagle Claw was a disaster, I gave that incomparable incompetent Carter at least a smidgen of respect for having the gumption to try it.
Operation Eagle Claw may have been ill-conceived, or too far beyond our operational capabilities at the time, but at least we tried.
But Carter at least had the guts to try. Ann Coulter once said something to the effect of (I have to paraphrase) “Neville Chamberlain didn’t have his own craven behavior to hold up as an example to himself of the folly of appeasement. Modern Democrats have no such excuse.”
Some similar sentiment could be voiced in support of Trump in that he does have the behavior of the Iranians and embassies as an example to hold up, and he apparently did just that, as a functioning President should.
I have two outstanding international grudges, neither of which has been repaid in full by our government. One is the North Korean seizing of the USS Pueblo coupled with the shootdown of the EC-121 in 1969 that killed 31 of our men. The other is the 1979 takeover of our embassy in Iran.
Both of those should have been dealt with harshly, and neither was. As far as I am concerned, they both still have something coming to them. I don’t want us to be at war, honestly. But I would rather fight back and accept the risk of further attacks.