US Needs to Hit Iran Harder to End the War
... So we’re really talking about 90-plus days of negotiations and 38 days of actual fighting.
That should tell us something about what the Iranian strategy is. They want to talk, talk, talk, and they do not want to fight, fight, fight...
Part of the problem is that we have knocked out at least three centers of the four of their government. The theocracy with the death of Khamenei and the disabling of his son and killing of many of the others is sort of inert. We’ve taken out a lot of the heads of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
There’s a lot of military planners that were central to Iran’s military, industrial, nuclear complex that are gone, and we have a few elected leaders...
Notice they don't ever hit Israel. They don’t ever hit Israel because Israel has announced that their response will be disproportionate and aimed at the surviving government...
We can either stop all of their supplies, and I mean all of them. That is, we can take out their airlift capacity, their airport. We can take out all the rail lines over land to China. We can take out the Caspian Sea ports. We can not allow any seaborne traffic into Iran.
And we can take out their electrical generation plant, short out the grid take out more...
We’ve taken out their 47-year, half a trillion-dollar military investment...
... we’re not going to get into this tit-for-tat cycle, that these other countries will be able to keep the Strait of Hormuz open...
I’m getting at we need to up the level of damage we do to Iran, and unfortunately that might entail dual targeting electrical plants, roads, bridges, and the actual barracks, camps, military facilities of all the various aspects of the Iranian military...
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Video: Trump Is Preparing for the Final Phase Against Iran, by Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal, 18 July 2026.
Taking Over Iran’s Kharg Island, One America News, 10 July 2026:
... the Iranians wouldn’t want to bombard the island with missiles and drones as it would destroy one of its most valuable pieces of real estate and bar for a long time all of its future oil exports.
Remember: the Iranians always play the long game. They will absorb losses – even staggering losses – if they believe they will prevail in the long term.
The preservation of Kharg Island for future use means the Iranians may wish to avoid any really significant fighting there...
So, if Kharg Island falls to the Americans, it’s likely they will possess it for the long run – unless Trump decided to barter it away to the Iranian Mullahs for some other Iranian concessions – that the Iranians likely won’t keep...
Carrot and Stick, by James Howard Kunstler, 13 July 2026:
a key precept in jihad is taqiyya, which prescribes lying and deception in the service of jihad, which further suggests that, for the jihadist IRGC, there can be no real understanding in the Memorandum of Understanding that Iran’s civil government signed. Taqiyya requires the IRGC to lie, which it has demonstrated it is determined to do. . . like, firing missiles at commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz after it promised not to. How can such conduct possibly produce mutual understanding?
And so, if you picture the negotiations as a carrot-and-stick type process, you see that Iran’s IRGC is oblivious to carrots. Only the stick might avail, and Mr. Trump is obliging them with it.
Graham's Death Inspires Iran to Engage in an Orgy of Bloodlust, by Robert Spencer, Front Page Magazine, 14 July 2026:
The sudden and unexpected death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has sent Iran's Islamic regime into a fever spasm of bloodlust...
The Islamic Republic made no claim that it was actually responsible for killing Graham, but as it considered him an enemy of their regime, and therefore of Allah himself, it celebrated his death as Allah's judgment. And it was sure that Allah would be obliging in making sure that others faced the same fate...
They think that in defeating their enemies and causing them to suffer, they are doing the will of Allah, who unaccountably created billions of infidels even though he has nothing but hatred and contempt for them...
The humiliation of the infidels proves the truth of Islam’s foremost assertion: "Allahu akbar," Allah is greater. Allah is greater than your god, because your god couldn’t protect you against attacks from Muslims. The deaths of Trump, Netanyahu, and the others on Iran's hitlist will, in the minds of regime leaders, prove that Islam is true and that their system is correct. That's why they're so eager to play bloodthirsty wish-fulfillment games and indulge their fantasies about how Trump is living in fear of their strike. The death of Trump will prove that they've been right all along.
GOP Sen. Marshall: Have to Bomb Dual-Use Targets in Iran, Which Means Civilians Will Die, Breitbart, 13 July 2026.
Trump: We’ll Knock Out All of Iran’s Power Plants, Bridges Unless They Come to Table, Breitbart, 14 July 2026.
President Ronald Reagan to Carter: ‘Betraying the Shah of Iran Was a Stain of Shame on America’s Record!’ By Amil Imani, Geller Report, 26 July 2026.
