Iran Has Been an Imminent Threat to the U.S. for Forty-Seven Years

“The threats posed by Iran to the United States, while potentially serious, weren’t imminent. So Trump and his officials have redefined ‘imminent’ to include distant, indirect, and theoretical risks. They’ve stretched the word beyond any semblance of its meaning.” — Will Saltan, The Bulwark

Listen up here, you jobless paid agitators. The US had to attack Iran because Iran has been an imminent threat to the US for forty-seven years. Some critics will probably say that a forty-seven-year-old threat doesn’t sound so imminent and that I don’t know what the word even means, or have never seen a dictionary, and don’t really understand how language works. To them I say: photosynthesis. Followed by: This is not the time for linguistic nitpicking.

It’s time for irresolute action amid crystal-clear confusion in the Middle East. We must come together as a united nation of fifty semi-independent states and respond to the plainly dubious danger with levelheaded panic and rain hellfire from the sky in the name of peace.

That’s why I’m so thankful that President Trump finally had the courage to act. For decades, presidents from both parties have stared at Iran with decisive hesitation, maintaining a policy of aggressive restraint toward a regime defined by anticipated unpredictability. They maintained a state of stable emergency, kicking the can down the road with urgent patience. Then, finally, President Trump picked up the can and instantly understood its limitations. He realized that the United States had a global obligation to its own self-interest to respond to the obvious ambiguity at the heart of the situation: that Iran is an uncertainty demanding immediate long-term action of forceful caution.

When you’re dealing with a consistently inconsistent adversary, you need well-planned improvisation and methodical spontaneity. Strategy requires orderly chaos, structured confusion, and the ability to pursue stable volatility without losing sight of the objective’s clear vagueness.

Take the nuclear issue. The president declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been destroyed while promising further strikes if they don’t stop its nuclear program. The media called this contradictory. But that only shows their ignorance of modern retaliatory deterrence. There was a confirmed speculation about a nuclear capability that could potentially definitely exist in the absence of evidence in Iran. That’s not a contradiction; that’s factual guesswork.

Then, of course, there are the missiles. Experts say Iran might someday develop weapons capable of reaching the United States. Maybe, maybe not. The question is: Do we risk it? Do we sleep at night wide awake with the incoming potentiality of war that may be coming our way in the near or far future? When hypothetical reality begins to take tangible shape in the minds of the people, responsible leadership must respond with deliberate impulsiveness, which is exactly what happened here over there.

The United States launched a strike designed to prevent escalation through controlled provocation, maintaining peace through careful aggression. The bottom line is that the world is a dangerous place full of systematic chaos and enemies whose intentions are transparently secret. In such an environment, the only responsible course is calculated recklessness, with a touch of rational insanity. That’s Trump all the way.

You cannot wait around forever for a hostile state to do something before you retaliate. You wouldn’t be able to get any decent war-like-but-technically-not-war operation going. Getting results requires the courage to pull back, act with confident doubt, and finally move forward with your back to the enemy. It’s the only way to avoid any kind of orderly catastrophe. And that is exactly what America did.

Because sometimes the only way to protect peace is to break it first. Sometimes the only way to maintain stability is to flip the table over. And sometimes the gravest danger of all is a nation that has been on the brink of attacking you for nearly half a century, and which might, at any moment, continue to be a potential confirmed danger.