I was on the Outsiders show on Sky News Australia a few minutes ago. As I was waiting for my segment to begin, breaking news came across the wire: President Trump announced that the U.S. has bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities, including the Fordow site which is located under a mountain. Later Trump said on Truth Social that “Fordow is gone.” That presumably means that we dropped a “bunker buster” bomb.
So when I went on the air, we ditched the topics that had been on the agenda and only talked about Iran and America’s military involvement. I said that the American people are behind Trump and supportive of military action; that the few high-profile conservatives (i.e., Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens) who are bitterly opposed to Israel and to our involvement in the Middle East have virtually no constituency; that we have owed the mullahs since 1979 and since the Iraq War; that the goal here must be regime change; and that the Democrats’ strategy will be to lie low and hope for failure.
President Trump will address the nation later this evening. It is a historic moment. The main issue, in my opinion, is how to transition from military success to eviction of the mullahs from power. I think there is little or no chance of American troops playing a role, and I don’t see Israel invading Iran, either. One hopes that the Iranian people will rise up and demand a return to normal life, but there is a risk that the mullahs could linger indefinitely, like the Maduro regime in Venezuela, by continuing to terrorize the citizenry.
