Ben Shapiro

We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.

Here's the bottom line.

The history of Iran and America over the last half century since 1979 is not a story of a tragic misunderstanding between equals.

It is certainly not a story of America as the evil aggressor and Iran as the innocent.

It is the story of a radical, apocalyptic, theocratic regime that defines itself in opposition to Western civilization.

The West honors life.

Iran celebrates death.

The West wants to spread prosperity.

Iran has only ever spread suffering and sheer terror under the current regime.

The Islamic regime has told us who they are time and again, with hostages, with car bombs, with IEDs, with missiles, not handshakes and wishful op-eds.

They built a regime whose foundational slogan is death to America, and then they've spent their entire existence trying to put that into practice by arming every jihadist psychopath they could find.

Our face-off with Iran has for a long time oscillated between clear-eyed deterrence and cowardly appeasement.

But you can't bribe a snake.

You can't reason with a snake.

You have to cut off its head.

And that's what President Trump is doing right now.

Here's the topic most people avoid planning for the inevitable.

Death comes for all of us.

Yeah, I know, a dark thought.

But that doesn't mean that you have to leave chaos behind.