My latest in PJ Media:
On Wednesday morning, Earth Day no less, when any responsible president would have been hectoring people about global warming, President Trump had other concerns on his mind. “I have instructed the United States Navy,” he tweeted, “to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.”
Predictable scorn ensued from the Left. Writer Nick Jack Pappas was just one of the many who focused on Trump’s choice of words, tweeting, “Trump is giving the order to shoot down boats. I didn’t realize Iran had flying boats now.” They ignored the fact that one can shoot a man down without his being able to fly, but anything will do for a dig at the President. Iranian freedom activist and journalist Heshmat Alavi was more focused, tweeting: “The mullahs’ regime ruling #Iran harasses UN [sic] Navy ships for propaganda purposes. Thank you, President Trump, for reminding this regime that the Obama years are gone. And BTW, this regime does not represent the Iranian people.”
Alavi was right. The Iranian mullahs, apparently having forgotten that Barack Obama is no longer President, were at it again just last week. According to Business Insider, “nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessels sailed out Wednesday to harass a collection of US Navy and Coast Guard vessels conducting operations in international waters.”
The U.S. Navy stated that eleven Iranian boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy (IRGCN) “conducted dangerous and harassing approaches,” and added that “the IRGCN’s dangerous and provocative actions increased the risk of miscalculation and collision.” The Iranians, said the Navy statement, were violating the “rules of the road.”
This was not, however, a simple traffic dispute. Leftists will no doubt ascribe it to an increase of tensions over President Trump’s targeting earlier this year of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. However, all those who are blaming Trump for ramping up tensions with Iran are ignoring the fact that Iran has been working toward a war with the U.S. for decades, as The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran demonstrates in detail.
On November 2, 2015, a commanding majority of the Majlis, 192 of its 290 members, agreed to a statement saying that “Death to America,” which continues to be chanted at every Friday prayer in Iranian mosques as well as at anti-American protests, was not just a slogan: it had “turned into the symbol of the Islamic Republic and all struggling nations.”
A communal desire to destroy the United States and commit mass murder of its citizens is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s very identity.
There is much more. Read the rest here.
CogitoErgoSum says
Also, I am sure that any Iranian sailors pulled from the water due to their boat having gone under will be treated in a most humane fashion by the U.S. Navy.
Aunty Podes says
They would certainly be better treated than US troops captured by the barbaric muzzies!
CogitoErgoSum says
Just can’t see letting any man drown in the water like a rat; not the decent thing to do.
gravenimage says
I don’t think this is what Trump is calling for, CogitoErgoSum.
sweetolbob says
About time ! Give our Captains the authority to swat the little gnats that swarm around our Navy ships like bugs on a banana !
They are ordered to make themselves an irritant. Swat them !
Quazgaa says
For sale, iranian speedboat slightly sunken.
Batteries not included.
Gray says
‘From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli’: Plus ca change …
mortimer says
Are you feeling lucky, punks? Well are you?
Tom says
No one should want to see an escalation of tensions between the USA and Iran, but at some point it becomes necessary to send a strong message to a regime that does not represent the vast majority of the people of Iran. A regime that is evil. One that backs and propagates terrorism in the region.
Perhaps it is time to also send a strong message of hope to the Iranian people that they have an ally who will not let them down, as they were let down by Obama.
Templerr says
Love to see it but it will never happen
Wellington says
Damn, Trump again and again reminds me of two previous Presidents above all—Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt.
Just wanted to add I very much admire Jackson and Roosevelt.
Bezelel says
Finally after 8yrs of grief and shame we have a president who is doing a better job than I could. That’s not saying much since a doped up retarded cross eyed monkey could’ve done a better job than obama. 🙂
RegT says
+1
John says
+2
Mel says
Please leave Michelle “Mike”
PRCS says
The definition of ‘harassment’ by the operators of fiberglass ‘gunboats’–in international waters–is a bit vague.
‘Gunboats’?
Like flies on an elephants rump.
Patriotpam says
Carrying rather large guns pointed at our Navy? Please, be American!
PRCS says
No, they’re NOT pointed at our ships.
But, the moment they are….
PRCS says
Prepare to ram, Ahmed!
Janna’s virgins await!
andrew mckendrick says
Or maybe just a packet of sun dried raisins.
PRCS says
+ 1
GreekEmpress says
Off topic—
Wanted to wish all the British folks at JW a Happy St. George’s Day!
gravenimage says
🙂
Maureen Chaloner says
Thanks from a true indiginous Brit.
Phil Copson says
“….Wanted to wish all the British folks at JW a Happy St. George’s Day!….”
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Thank you, Greek Empress; although at the risk of appearing churlish – you actually mean “all the English folks” – as St George is the Patron Saint of England, not of Great Britain.
(St Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland – hence the saltire / “St Andrew’s Cross” on the Scottish flag / St Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland – hence the “St Patrick’s Day Parade” for Irish-Americans / and I believe the Patron Saint of Wales is either Shirley Bassey or Bonnie Tyler – hence the dragon…. ..ok, it’s St David.)
I marked St George’s Day by doing something I should have done weeks ago – putting Union Jack stickers over the EU “Circle of Death” symbol on my car number-plates….
GreekEmpress says
You are right sir, I meant English.
I like how you marked the occasion!
Ecosse1314 says
Wouldn’t a St Georges cross be more appropriate
Chistopher Watson says
About time we had a proper patron Saint.
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’
Wellington says
Henry V and Donald Trump have much in common, though this will be lost on many.
Ah, arguably the single greatest error of our era is that so much has been lost on so many.
Aussie Infidel says
Wellington, Our kids don’t learn history any more as a stand-alone subject. These days both history and geography are buried in ‘social studies’; and we wonder why children have been dumbed down with little understanding of the world about them. It might seem paranoid to some to say that it was all part of a deliberate plot by the Left to kill patriotism, but from long experience in politics, that is exactly what happened.
Patriotpam says
I agree, wholeheartedly.
Wellington says
Yes, Aussie Infidel, doing away with history, geography, government and economics (the way I was taught) and lumping then together as “social studies” was one of many stupid educational “innovations” of the 1960’s (I just missed the social studies rot by a handful of years).
I actually taught at the high school level for three years (late 1970’s) before I started teaching at the college level and had to teach social studies, which I thought moronic then as I do now. Social studies is where you learn a little of everything but mostly a whole lot of nothing.
But then I was fortunate enough to land a college teaching post and taught history for 29 years—Western Civilization, Early Modern Europe and Modern Europe, as well as courses on the American Civil War Era and World War II Era. But as soon as I retired from this college they did away with ALL history requirements. Beyond dumb but so typical of what has happened to education in one Western nation after another. The Age of Nonsense marches on.
Peter35 says
Couldn’t agree more, Oz. Just talking to young people when I’ve been back to NZ showed they have little idea of the world we live in, and NO idea of history, as Jacinda Ardern demonstrated with her atrocious reaction to the Christchurch mosque shootings.
I got the distinct impression NZ would have been declared an islamic country, had she had her way.
Maureen Chaloner says
We English have always been seen as second class citizens.It’s time the government recognised we need to CELEBRATE our Patron Saint as well!
mortimer says
Most people underestimate Donald Trump. Few know his won 17 golf tournaments. His strategy is to get straight to the cup as economically as possible. Trumps golf record shows singleness of purpose. If he says he will sink warlike vessels, he will do so.
TKF says
Sink those Iranian bass-boats. They’re no better than those scumbag Somali pirates.
gravenimage says
We actually *have* largely destroyed Somali piracy. I don’t know why this isn’t better known–it is one of the clear victories against Jihad in recent years.
gravenimage says
Trump Orders Navy to Destroy Any Iranian Gunboats That Harass US Ships
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*Good*.
Lightship Chaplain says
Yeah, a President that still has a pair!
Loki says
About time.
But on a lighter note check out my new business.
It is called. ” The allahu ak-BAR”
First vodka shooter is free. ( oops. Did I say shooter?). Sorry. 🙂
Two for one pork chops on Friday. Other pork specials daily. And hot dogs… Woof…
Laura says
Pork, to muslims, is not like kryptonite to Superman; anyone capable of hacking off the head of another human being is unlikely to be afraid of pork/bacon/pigs.
Patriotpam says
I’ll take 2 of everything.
Glynnda White says
Yes he did…..TRUMP 2020!!!!!
Blurb1000 says
Indirectly we can put 3000 more lives on the Clinton Body Count List.
Rarely says
It would be interesting to know exactly where this harassment took place, what “operations” the USN were conducting at the time and exactly what actions constituted “harassment”.