Submission by Dr. Glenn Mollette

I am ready for the Iran war to be over. I wasn’t ready for it to start. War always means the loss of human life. The families and friends of those who have been killed will suffer emotionally for the rest of their lives. Children have now lost parents. Spouses have lost mates. We have lost Americans. Yes, we thank God for their service to our country, but they are still dead because of a war.

I was sick and tired of Afghanistan years before it ever ended, and the same with Iraq. They spent two trillion dollars, and thousands of American lives were lost. However, it was crazy the way we left Afghanistan. We should never have turned everything over to the Taliban. We should have kept our base and airport, along with a couple thousand soldiers in Afghanistan, to maintain that strategic presence.

Here we are again in the Middle East. Gasoline is skyrocketing. The stock market is plummeting. Americans 55 and older are seeing their retirement funds drop like a rock. Groceries continue to become more expensive. Also, innocent people in Iran are dying. We have no way of knowing for sure how many innocent Iranian citizens have been killed. Everyone in Iran is not evil. There are millions who hate the current regime and want change. It is tragic that good citizens have been, and will be, killed by our attacks. This does not make us loved. We have to know that down the road there will definitely be blowback.

The current regime, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran, is evil. They recently executed a 19-year-old wrestler by hanging him in public. They didn’t like something he had said. These people will do anything. This is what we have to remember, and this is what our president knows. With a nuclear weapon, they would hold the world hostage. The Strait of Hormuz will eventually be open and moving again. Oil will eventually flow again. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, they could destroy massive cities. The economic impact would be far greater than what we are currently facing.

We could pay $6 a gallon or more for gasoline before this is over. Iran, with nuclear capabilities, might have brought about $10-a-gallon gas, or maybe no gas in some parts of the world. The death toll would have been greater because nuclear attacks would not only have targeted Israel, but also neighboring countries and the United States. Iran and its regime had to be stopped. The current impact is bad, but nothing like it would have been if they had been successful in building their own nuclear weapons.

Our president does not want this to go on forever. Let’s pray that NATO countries will truly step up and do their part in opening the Strait of Hormuz. Let’s hope and pray for a government run by the people of Iran. Without a real ending to what is currently in place, there will never be a peaceful day there or here.

 

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