“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston S. Churchill

As about 30 rockets crashed down on joint U.S.-Iraqi bases last week where an American contractor was killed and several U.S. and Iraqi troops were wounded, Americans were still ignorant that this is what happens when you appease terrorists

And yet, social media is chockfull of citizens and politicians, with their hate for the sitting president so intense, that they blame him for escalating the violence with Iran instead of placing it where it belongs: with the government of Iran. 

It is shocking that Americans are lamenting the death of a terrorist who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of your own countrymen as well as thousands of people across the region. “We don’t want to go to war with Iran!” was the prevailing attitude across social media. That is a sane and logical argument. No one in the U.S. WANTS to go to war with Iran. But sorry folks, Iran has been at war with you for 40 years and it is time to wake up. 

Since the Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and took American diplomats hostages, the die had been cast. The Marine Corps barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983 was an Iranian sponsored operation. Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, both Iranian proxies, were implicated in the attack. 

In the late 1980s, the Iranians began attacking commercial shipping in the Gulf but that foray was put down by the U.S. Navy.

For years the U.S. government has stated that Iran is the world’s leading supporter of terrorism; Iran’s support of terror groups continues unabated.

And then came the enormously stupid Iran nuclear deal by which the United States appeased the Iranians. They got them to agree not to build a nuclear weapon in exchange for lifting some sanctions, which translated into more funds for Tehran’s covert ops in the region — Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Houthi rebels in Yemen…the list goes on.