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Schlichter Nails It On Iran - Trump Can Win the Forever War by Taking Out the Mullahs
2026-02-06
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[Townhall] When your enemy is down, that's a really good time to kick him in the head. And right now, the Iranian mullahs are down. Israel took out their air and cyber defense systems. We took out their nuke program. Their economy is collapsing thanks to President Trump's sanctions; there are no more pallets of cash coming with a nice note from Ben Rhodes. The Persian people are rising up. All our forces are finally in place. It's time to kick them in the head.

Let's take these bastards out of the picture for good – and hopefully, as you read this, that's what is happening. We can't let this opportunity slip away. If the ayatollahs wiggle out of this, they will be stronger, and we will be weaker, and we will regret it. If Donald Trump ends Jimmy Carter's 47-year forever war, he goes down in history as the one guy who could.

Yes, I know the objection to forever wars. I've had some personal involvement with American Middle East policy, so I'm not asking anybody to do anything I wasn't willing to do. Keep in mind that, but for Donald Trump's victory over ISIS and his neutering of the Venezuelan communists in about an hour, America has not unequivocally won a war since I was a 20-something platoon leader in Desert Storm. Trump is the guy who can bring the forever wars to an end.

There are two ways not to have forever wars. Option One is to never stand up for yourself. If you don't fight back when the people who want to literally murder all of you attack, you are not going to have a war. You are also not going to have a future, because, after they kill all your friends, they will get around to killing you, too.

The other way to finish a forever war is to win the damn thing. That's the Trump way – just ask Maduro. And Option Two is what we need to exercise in Iran now that we've got a giant fleet in Iran's neighborhood and all the chess pieces are on the board.
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