{"id":21205,"date":"2026-03-03T06:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/my-honest-take-on-the-war-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:24:59","slug":"my-honest-take-on-the-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/my-honest-take-on-the-war-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"My Honest Take On The War In Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Today, of course, I want to examine the military operation in Iran. It will not surprise any of my followers to learn that I am skeptical of this operation, as I am usually skeptical of military interventions in far-off countries on the other side of the globe. That\u2019s my position, and I\u2019m not going to abandon it now, even as certain segments of the base become inflamed with war fever and demand that the rest of us fall in line.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I am also an American patriot. I love my country, and I want it to succeed. Which means that I am not rooting for this war to be a failure, obviously, nor am I weeping over the poor Iranian regime and its leaders who are now scattered, in many pieces, across the desert sand. Good riddance to them, as far as I\u2019m concerned. You wouldn\u2019t know it based on what you see on social media, especially X over the weekend, but there is actually a lane for people in this camp, my camp.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a lane for people who are skeptical of military intervention and regime change wars, but also aren\u2019t siding with the Iranian regime and actively rooting for America to fail.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only does the lane exist in real life, but it\u2019s where, I would estimate, a great majority of normal Americans live.<\/span><\/p>\n

With that in mind, I want to examine this issue as fairly and objectively as I can. One thing we know for sure is that it is never more difficult to recognize the limits of what you know \u2014 and to ask honest and good-faith questions about what you don\u2019t know \u2014 than it is during a once-in-a-generation war in which millions of lives, including American lives, will potentially be changed. It\u2019s not natural for a political commentator or a politician to admit this, but it\u2019s true.<\/span><\/p>\n

For decades, Democrats have pursued a policy of appeasing Iran, on the theory that money and diplomatic concessions would forestall the development of a nuclear bomb.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, Republicans have been split between two factions: The neocon \u201caxis of Evil\u201d hardliners who chant \u201cbomb Iran\u201d on the one hand, and the \u201cAmerica First\u201d proponents on the other \u2014 many of whom voted for Donald Trump because he promised to keep the United States out of needless regime change wars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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America and Israel are currently bombing internal suppression targets all across Iran.<\/p>\n

The goal is to have the right conditions in place for the Iranian people to overthrow this regime forever.<\/p>\n

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Every single one of these factions, at the moment, has reason to be furious. And therefore, they have an incentive to confuse the public about what\u2019s happening in Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democrats didn\u2019t get their peace treaty, where the mullahs and the Supreme Leader hold hands and announce that they\u2019ll never attempt to build a dirty bomb ever again.<\/span><\/p>\n

The neocons didn\u2019t get their full-scale ground invasion, complete with \u201cboots on the ground,\u201d a new democratic Iranian Constitution drafted by the United States, and lucrative nation-building contracts \u2014 at least not yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

And many \u201cAmerica First\u201d voters, myself included, are wondering how, exactly, the invasion of Iran will advance the interests of the United States. We should not do anything at all outside the borders of our country, or within them, unless it will <\/span>first and foremost<\/span><\/i> benefit Americans. And the benefit must be a net gain, which means the reward for Americans is greater than the cost we must pay to procure it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is that the case here?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, other than a 3:00 am address from Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night, which broadly argued that Iran has been a threat to the United States for many decades, that case simply wasn\u2019t sufficiently made in the lead-up to this operation. It still hasn\u2019t been made. And it certainly hasn\u2019t been subjected to any kind of rigorous scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can make the argument that, because the beginning of the war in Iran was a highly sensitive military operation involving classified intelligence that could change at a moment\u2019s notice, it\u2019s not prudent for the White House to lay out its case in detail ahead of time. After all, the president is the commander-in-chief of the military for a reason, and he\u2019s entitled to deference when it comes to national security. <\/span><\/p>\n

But there are two major problems with this argument. <\/span><\/p>\n

First of all, U.S. military deployments to the Persian Gulf over the past few weeks have been extensive and obvious. This was not a surprise attack, or anything close to it. There\u2019s no reason why the president couldn\u2019t have addressed Congress, explained the status of the negotiations with Iran, and then outlined a plan of action in case those negotiations failed \u2014 including some suggestion of what would happen after Iran\u2019s government was toppled. That didn\u2019t happen, even though the president had a chance to do so, during the State of the Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

But even if you give the administration a pass on this, you still have to wonder why the silence from the White House has persisted. No senior administration official, or Cabinet member, appeared on any of the Sunday shows the other day, more than 24 hours after the attacks began. They don\u2019t seem interested in explaining how the war is going, why they felt they had to strike at this moment, or what Iran will look like in five months or five years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the weekend, information solely came through press releases and Truth Social posts. This morning, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine held the first press conference to discuss the mission, more than 48 hours after the start of the war. <\/span><\/p>\n

When asked if the United States would put boots on the ground, this is how Caine replied:<\/span><\/p>\n