LOS ANGELES (OC).–Vowing to avenge the deaths of six U.S. soldiers, President Trump served notice to Congress and the skeptical press that the war would go on for weeks, not end anytime soon. Trump knows when the war end, it’s because Iran has capitualated to Trump calling the shots on a new form of government. For 47-years, Iran has lived through a nightmarish crackdown by Islamic clerics, imposing a strict form of Shiite Islam on its prior secular population. So many ordinary Iranians have lost their lives to the Republican Guards Corps [RGC] or Basij militia, beating, jailing and executing citizens for listening to Western music or, for women, daring to put on some mascara. Only recently, the late Ayatollah ordered the slaughter of at least 36,000 street protesters with thousand more under arrest awaiting liquidation. Trump vowed to stop the carnage on innocent youth.
Kuwait accidentially shot down three F-22 fighter jets with the pilots ejecting in time but sustaining various injuries. Kuwait’s used a U.S. PAC-2 and PAC-3 Patriot surface-to-air missiles that doesn’t discriminate on the type of aircraft shot down. But Kuwait should know that any jets flying into its airspace would be U.S. or Israeli, certainly not Iranian who’s air force still runs on old Russian-built Mig-floggers. There’s simply no excuse for Kuwait Patriot missile operators to shoot without identifying the origin country. Kuwait owes the U.S. about $450 million for the three lost fighter jets. Since starting the war with Iran Feb. 28, Trump has been hammered by Democrat and the fake news, pretending Congress should have been consulted in matters of national security. Congress under Article 1 would like to usurp Trump’s Article 2 authority to conduct national security.
Political hacks like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) are already invoking the 1973 War Powers Resolution in an attempt to stop Trump from his duty as commander-in-chief to defends U.S. foreign policy and national security. Raskin wants to muzzle Trump, tie his hand from engaging in his duty as commander-in-chief. Raskin, who brags about teaching Constitutional law, surely knows that Article 2 gives Trump autonomy in managing foreign policy and national security. Democrats and fake news dismiss Trump’s arguments about Iran as a national security threat to the United States and its allies. No one knows, because of a lack of inspections, how close Iran is to building its first A-bomb. Trump said “Operation Epic Fury” would take weeks to complete at this point. Iran still has dangerous ballistic missile launchers shooting missiles all over the Middle East.
Iran has been unloading its arsenal on Gulf State Arab states that seems aligned with the United States and Israel. Iran looks lethal at the moment but it’s a matter of time before its defensive and offensive capability has been destroyed by the U.S. and Israel. Once Iran loses its capacity to fire missiles, it will be at the point of capitulation where hardliners will have to compromise with Trump to survive. Trump wants a face-saving way out for regime dead-enders that refuse to accept that a new government is only weeks or months away. Trump and Netanyahu as committed to an operation for the long haul, not one negotiated away because certain members at the U.N. apply pressure on Washington and Tel Aviv. Trump and Netanyahu know their mission and they see success in their sights. Only Democrats and the fake news want the Ayatollah’s regime to survive.
No Arab Gulf State country wants to see Iran’s Shiite theocracy survive. Unlike Iran, the Arab Gulf States, while maintaining their Sunni Islam faith, want their people to have opportunities for prosperity and wealth. Only in Iran does the government slaughter anything seen as a political uprising, a threat to mullah rule. With Democrats trying to invoke the 1973 War Resolution, it’s more politics as usual, hoping, before the 2026 Midterm elections, to flip the House and Senate. Voters would have to be gaslighted by Democrats painting a doom-and-gloom scenario under Trump but the facts speak for themselves. Wall Street has made unprecedented gains without a disaster like the dot-com bubble under former Presidient Bill Clinton. Clinton touts his balanced budget in 1999 but it had to do with massively inflated stock valuations.
When it comes to foreign policy, Trump hit the ground running last year joining Israel in knocking out Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites. Trump and Netanyahu had unfinished business with Iran because they refuse to give up nuclear enrichment, something that could lead to an A-bomb. Democrats and fake news said last year that Trump did not “obliterate” Iran’s nuke program, all, for one purpose, to discredit Trump. By anyone’s standards, Trump pulled off a masterful mission, setting Iran’s nuke program back for years. Iran has not enriched uranium since the 2025 12-day war. Trump knows this time around he must seeks regime change, giving Iranian people a measure of freedom no seen since the Shah of Iran was driven from power in 1979. Whether admitted to or not by Democrats and the fake news, Trump has only had immense success in domestic and foreign policy.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s edtior of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma. a
