The Long Game

After 21 hours of negotiations in Pakistan, Vice President JD Vance walked away from the negotiating table after the United States and Iran failed to strike a peace deal to end the ongoing six-week war in the Middle East. Vance blamed Iran’s refusal to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as the reason why the negotiations failed. “The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement,” Vance announced. “And I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America. They have chosen not to accept our terms. So, we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement.”

Many people in the United States and in our media are complaining that a peace deal has not been reached yet. In the modern United States, we have unrealistic expectations about war. We are expected to conduct a war in which we suffer no casualties; there is no collateral damage; we only kill their military personnel; we only destroy military targets; it’s over in less than a week and did not cost a penny. Meanwhile, Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world, targeting civilians and non-military sites, yet we have to be surgically perfect.

The war will be over at some point in the relative near future. The question is what will the world look like when it’s over. Will the oppressive Islamic theocratic regime still be in place threatening the United States and the West, exporting terrorism, or will the 47 years of terror in and from Iran finally cease to exist. And the answer to that will come down to the people of the United States.

The United States and Iran have divergent views on the war which will determine winning and losing. While we worry about gas prices, they are worrying about creating a worldwide caliphate. We think about 5 minutes from now; they think in terms of centuries. They are willing to extend this war as long as it takes, even though the war is happening on their soil, while we want to end this war as soon as possible because we don’t like spending $50 for a tank of gas instead of $38. We would be willing to let maniacal theocrats terrorize the Western World and our allies while continuing to supply China with the energy it needs to create an AI and tech dominance throughout the world, rather than spending $12 more for gas.

The Iranian regime does not care if their citizens keep getting killed in this war. They killed 40,000 of their own citizens just a few months ago for protesting the regime. The regime will cling to power in that country with any means necessary because they have only one goal – kill the infidels and take over the world. That’s it. The Quran tells them to kill Christians and Jews. They have been chanting, “death to America!“ and “death to Israel!” for the last 47 years. They want to build nuclear weapons and blow Israel off the map. Then they will turn those weapons on Europe and then on the United States. They believe that the best way to accomplish their goal of worldwide Islamic rule is through the destruction of the West.

Prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran was the most Westernized country in the Middle East. That’s why the crazies set their sights on it and that’s why they are setting their sights on the United States. As they did in Iran, the Islamists teamed up with the leftists and socialists to overthrow the existing power structure based on promises of equitable wealth distribution. The leftists believed that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so they teamed up with the Islamists to overthrow the Shah of Iran. When the Islamicists finally took power, the first people they murdered were the far-left socialists from the universities. Many of the feminists were lured by the destruction of the patriarchy and what they got was the worst patriarchy they could ever imagine – burqas, honor killings, forced marriages, and second-class citizenship.

Slowly, the Islamist are infiltrating Western countries through mass immigration in order to take control of the power structure in those countries. London has had an Islamist mayor for the last 10 years as rapes, stabbings and “no-go zones” by Middle Eastern migrants have grown exponentially. New York just elected a Muslim mayor who ran on a pure communist platform. The leftists are so blinded by their narrative that the white Christian male is evil that they continue to vote for the evilest people on the face of the Earth – Islamists disguised as Communists. And the moment the Islamists have the power, American women will be raped, killed or forced to wear a Burka all day. The Muslims tell us who they are and show us who they are on a day-to-day basis, but we only listen to the false narrative that we’ve constructed in our heads. 

As long as there are Muslims in the world, the United States and Europe will be a war with the Muslim world because they are always at war with us. They don’t want to coexist with us. They don’t want to coexist with us in the same country, on the same continent, not even on the same planet. That’s why there can never, and will never be peace in the Middle East as long as there are Muslims in the Middle East.

The war in Iran is a war of emotional and psychological attrition, not physical attrition. And that’s where we lose. We get worn down emotionally and psychologically from the war more easily than they do. They are in it for the long haul, whereas we want it over as quickly as possible. And they know that. That’s why they will keep holding on and holding on and holding on because they know that we will break before they do. And that’s how they will win the war.

This is the same way the Japanese were during World War II. They were never going to surrender. That’s why we had to drop two atomic bombs on them. They had to be absolutely devastated and destroyed before they would even think about surrendering. Even after witnessing the destruction from Hiroshima, emperor Hirohito still refused to surrender. If we didn’t drop the atomic bombs, that war would’ve gone on for another 3 to 4 years. Iran will never agree to a peace deal based on our terms. Never. That’s not who they are.

We must make it very clear to the regime in Iran, that we will never stop, and we will never quit until they completely surrender. We have to be willing to go the long haul. But that is a mindset that cannot be stated in the modern American media. Any politician who says we are staying in this war until our goals are accomplished will be accused of supporting endless wars. So, all the messages coming out of the United States is that we want this war over as soon as possible. That is music to the ears of the Iranian regime. They know that they will “win“ because we have that mentality. They don’t have to beat us; they merely have to outlast us.

Everybody in the media, and everybody on the left who keeps complaining that the war is still going on, who hold out these unrealistic expectations that the war should be over by now, are merely working to undermine the United States of America, and some are doing it intentionally because they want Donald Trump to fail. That’s who those people are. They want America to lose this war against the evilest people on the planet simply because they want Donald Trump to fail. They don’t care how much that will devastate the United States. They just want Donald Trump to fail. Those people are the second most evil people in the world behind the Islamists who run Iran.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.