Op-ed:

My Take on “Operation Midnight Hammer”

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” These words were spoken on June 12, 1987, when President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to dismantle the “Berlin Wall”...the physical barrier that not only separated East and West Germany, but symbolized the “Cold War” divide. And while tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union did tone down somewhat, the wall itself only fell when on November 9,1989, the German people started dismantling it themselves, brick by brick, ultimately resulting in reunification of Germany.

Over the past few months President Trump tried to get Iran to not only “negotiate for peace” regarding it's war with Israel, but to abandon its nuclear program...a program not initiated for peaceful purposes but for the development of nuclear bombs...bombs whose destinations would be Israel and the U.S.

And when Iran decided they'd rather go to war than dismantle anything, Trump dismantled said program for them in a“divert and deflect” precision operation, where Iran's nuclear ambitions were “bunker bombed” into oblivion. Now it's up to the Iranian people to follow the German peoples lead of 35 years ago and take “regime change” into their own hands.

Two great presidents striving for peace, but “peace through strength” for “strength” is what makes peace possible. Weakness was not an option for Reagan nor was it for Trump especially with Iran being the worldwide “state sponsor of terrorism,” thus an “existential threat to us all.” Trump gave Iran every opportunity to stop fighting and agree to nuclear disarmament, but it's hard to reason with a radical, theocratic based regime who believe that their cause is just and that God...in this case allah...is on their side.

So now we wait and see what comes next. Will “regime change” happen ...will a “populist/ resistance” movement be able to overtake the remnants of what's left of Khomeini's faithful...will Israel “take out” Khomeini...or will his death, thus martyrdom, become a rallying cry for the ideologues even though the Iranians wanting change far out number them? Or would retaliatory actions taken by Iran lead to further joint Israeli/U.S. actions being needed, as in take out Iran's oil fields thus crashing their economy?

 

Only time will time, but until then congratulations must go out to President Trump, our military, and to Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF...partners in war, partners in peace. Case closed. 

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