Sadly, I have to agree with the leftists on this.(Iran)

Many readers may recall my prior concerns over Putin playing Trump.

During the campaign, if memory serves, the claim was made that Trump would end the war in Ukraine.

Many on the right were more than happy with the idea that Putin should be rewarded for invading a neighboring country and came up with all kinds of excuses to justify their support for the invasion... none of them adequate to hand Vlad a free pass for engaging in the exact, same variety of activities we hung a few hundred nazis for after the war.

You know, the deliberate slaughter of civilians, rape, theft, acts of war, murdering POW's, etc.

The problem with Trump's Promise was the lack of realism involved. Much, I fear, as this peace deal with Iran evokes.

The United States was more than willing to sacrifice 1/4th to 1/3rd of Ukraine to check that particular box on the campaign promise list. Unfortunately, they failed to consult Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before floating that particular balloon... which Zelenskyy rightfully popped.

History has repeatedly taught us that placating invaders NEVER ends well.

It merely feeds their appetite. One of the larger, most recent examples is that Hitler fellow.

Efforts were made to placate him, and he promised his territorial ambitions were satisfied by yet another example of the Ukrainian betrayal, i.e., forking over Czechoslovakia after German "absorbed" Austria.

The then Prime Minister of England, a rube by the name of Chamberlain, even waved around a piece of paper, indicating he was sure he had "achieved peace in our time."

Chamberlain was played like a violin, along with the rest of Europe, who failed to pay attention to what was actually going on in Germany with segments of the population that Hitler was not particularly enamored of. Had he done so, England's PM might have taken a different view, PARTICULARLY after Stalin, who had just finished slaughtering a large number of the Soviet military's leadership in what became known as "Stalin's Purge(s)"agreed to a nonaggression pact... which green-lighted Germany's invasion of Poland, as long as the German's gave the Soviets half the spoils.

How'd that work out for them?

Segue to today's Iran, responsible for the death and maiming of tens of thousands of American military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How are they responsible?

They provided the insurgency with a great deal of the wherewithal to accomplish that goal.

Now, the US under Bush knew that was happening. It's hard to ignore when the labels in the boxes said "Made in Iran" on them.

The problem?

We didn't do anything about it. 

And that was a failure on the part of the United States of catastrophic proportions. The government of Iran is operated by a substantial minority of the country, the terrorist variety of islamic militants who, in one form or another seem to be infiltrating the US now.

For several decades, their anthem has been "Death to America."

And they've been busy achieving that aim for years.

And, for our part, idiots running this government have responded by handing over pallets of American cash, which a grateful Iran used to INCREASE their spread of terrorism and destabilization, particularly in the Middle East; as well, as the ongoing expansion of their nuclear programs.

So, since Trump was inaugurated for his second term, various efforts have been made to at least end the expansion to fruition of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

To a greater or lesser extent, those efforts failed.

The ONLY way to end that effort with anything approaching permanence, is regime Change.

Those governing Iran over the past several decades, must be hunted down and removed. Their radical islamic military arm (aka, the IRGC) must be hunted down and obliterated, much like most of Germany's Schutzstaffel (aka the "SS") after the conclusion of World War Two.

Both Putin and the leadership of the Iranian Government/IRGC are precisely as guilty of Crimes Against Humanity as the German leadership that the Allied Powers strung up not long after the war in Europe concluded.

Both Russia and Iran must be held accountable for their criminal acts. Both Russia and Iran must pay reparations to those they destroyed.

Failing to do so would have made no sense at the end of World War Two.

Failing to do the same NOW makes even less sense in 2026.

Sadly, I have to agree with the leftists on this.

There is only one way to realistically end this: Regime change.

If this stands and the same scum who started this in Iran, slaughtering thousands of protesting Iranians in the process, remain in charge?

We will have spent thousands of their lives and billions of our dollars...

... for nothing.

And then what? When we find out, as we inevitably will, that they're pissing on this treaty... what then? When they continue their efforts to engage in worldwide terrorism, what then? When they hang a few thousand Iranians moronic enough to believe in us, again... what then?

If we were GOING to start this... we MUST finish it. And this scam finishes nothing.

Historically, once again, the "bad guys" did what they had to do to remain in power. They out-waited us. Vietnam. Afghanistan. Iraq.

That's the way it's been since the Korean War.

Iran is stalling. And the reality is?

We KNOW they're stalling. Why are we doing this? What's the point?
I fear that Trump is getting played. And I also fear that in a relatively short time, we'll have to do it all over again, except, perhaps, maybe THIS time, we'll do we needs to be done.