The West Is Now Happy to Live With Terrorism

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Michigan just elected as senator someone who says that America “deserved” 9/11. Politicians forming a new government in Israel won’t call Hamas a terrorist group. Vice President JD Vance seems prepared to sign off on nukes for the IRGC, and a group caught trying to blow up an airbase in the U.K. is out on police bail. Is the West surrendering to terrorism? Yemen’s Houthis haven’t sunk an aircraft carrier, but given their ability to fashion ballistic missiles out of smuggled components from Iran and China, the day may not be far off. Neither can terrorists invade a country with tank divisions, but the proliferation of drone and cyber warfare allows capabilities for transborder clandestine attacks unimaginable a decade ago. (

The terrorist strategy of penetrating, dividing, and capturing the public narrative in Western societies by preying on the openness of democratic systems that they seek to destroy is succeeding.

Terrorist jungle bases or desert “caliphates” can be decimated by Western air power and special forces while their state sponsors get reduced to underground command bunkers presiding over destitute populations in ruins. But the terrorist strategy of penetrating, dividing, and capturing the public narrative in Western societies by preying on the openness of democratic systems that they seek to destroy is succeeding. The IRGC just managed to swing an election in the U.S. and split the Trump administration with drone strikes on commercial shipping, which hiked oil prices.

During the entire war, fewer than 20 U.S. servicemen have been killed (well below annual casualties in training exercises), and maybe three U.S. aircraft downed (well below the number lost annually in accidents) out of thousands of air sorties flown against Iran. But mass hysteria generated by the IRGC was sufficient for VP Vance to declare the war a “mistake,” blame it for the midterm defeat, and call on Republicans to choose peace candidates. ( International terrorist fugitives controlling Iran’s regime must be celebrating a historical accomplishment. Even as their air force, navy, and much of their army have been wiped out, and their few surviving radars can’t paint a U.S. combat air patrol without receiving missiles in return, they’ve won.

This can’t be considered a war in any conventional sense. It is the perpetration of violence for political ends, which is the very definition of terrorism. In past columns, I’ve compared the conflict in the Persian Gulf to a terrorist hostage siege, drawing parallels with how methodical, creative, and patient measures adopted by Western governments to eliminate terrorist threats have worked in the past and how that needs to be the approach against Iran, on a mega scale. But there is an age-old principle of war that still applies: a much superior force can lose the battle if it fails to understand the enemy. 

Trump seemed to be under the impression that by decapitating Iran’s “Supreme Council” with Epic Fury’s initial air strikes, a moderate leadership would emerge “begging for a deal.” Terrorist organizations don’t work that way, and it’s surprising that Bibi Netanyahu, who has been dealing with terrorism throughout his political life, unlike Trump, who is a relative novice, didn’t know better. How many times has Israel decapitated Hezbollah, Hamas, and the PLO only to see them resurrect? Terrorist organizations have a multiheaded cellular structure allowing them to survive even the hardest hits on exposed parts. Islamic groups invariably controlled or penetrated by the IRGC operate globally, through front organizations and NGOs plugged into leftist networks with key influence in Western bureaucracies, universities, and, most importantly, the media.

Hamas may be beaten militarily in Gaza, but its Palestinian flag-waving activists leading violent protests everywhere from Paris to Los Angeles seem to multiply.  As mobs led by Islamic radicals and communists loot stores throughout Europe, IRGC hackers, considered “one of the group’s most aggressive units,” have launched a massive cyber-attack targeting refrigeration systems in 700 French supermarkets. They’ve also hit the U.K., Italy, Germany, Portugal, and the Netherlands. French government prosecutors report that an investigation has been opened into a group called Shahid Kaveh “associated with the electronic and cyber center of IRGC.” Cyber-attacks on food storage systems have also recently been reported on U.S. military bases. NATO countries should be launching a RICO-type prosecution against the IRGC, with martial law powers to go after any group associated with its network.

But many leading EU technocrats have tended to believe that tolerance of Islamic radicalism and denunciations of Israel are a more effective shield. Spain’s Pedro Sánchez has aided Hamas, broken relations with Israel, and not allowed U.S. war planes to use Spanish bases to attack the IRGC. Relentless terrorist propaganda eclipsing Hamas’s horrific Oct. 7 atrocities with scenes and reports of Israel’s brutal response fills airwaves, digital websites, and newsprint. No one remembers 10/7 anymore. Images of Gaza’s destroyed buildings, bloody urban fighting, and famished Palestinian children projected through a pernicious apparatus that reaches into every household, every classroom, and every cell phone dominate the public consciousness. Following months of painful and mind-bending negotiations with Hamas to recover 200 hostages, even a member of Israel’s projected new government, Ram Yasser Hujirat, calls the group a “charitable organization.”

No communications strategy to counter terrorist propaganda that could be considered remotely adequate is in place. It’s as if Trump’s sometimes tough, sometimes soft sound bites or viral tweets — usually depending on how close or far from a “deal with Iran” his often-misled personal negotiators tell him they are — suffice to explain a very complex, fluid, and multidimensional conflict. Images of 9/11, Oct. 7, and other terror atrocities need to be aired constantly before Americans and Europeans through social media or even paid television advertising, reminding them of what lies in store if the IRGC gets a nuclear weapon. Clips showing how the U.S. military keeps oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz to stabilize oil markets while blocking arms and money from reaching a group controlling Iran by slaughtering its people should run constantly with an ongoing, well-defined, and consistent narrative. VOA would have been an ideal vehicle for this.

But Trump closed it down under the advice of a failed senatorial candidate from Arizona with little or no knowledge of foreign policy who has been collecting a fat GS salary to sit on her closed agency while waiting for an ambassadorship. Most people don’t like wars, especially when it hits their wallets. Warmongering masses like those that the IRGC mobilizes daily are apocalyptic precursors in a nuclear age. But the conflict in the Persian Gulf is not really a war. The U.S. is not invading Iran. It’s blocking a terrorist regime from obtaining weapons of mass destruction with which to take over the Middle East and blackmail the rest of the world.

The U.S. military is conducting a highly technical containment operation around Iran, complemented by diplomatic efforts to close off IRGC-dominated areas actively supported by local governments. It’s more like specialized engineering than armed conquest. The mission may seem endless, but abandoning it can only lead to more and bigger endless wars coming closer to home, in which those seeking to destroy the West set timelines.  Trump got into what has turned into a prolonged siege, uninformed, unprepared, and probably deluded about a quick victory. He is now paying the political price. The Pentagon remains firmly in control of the situation, adapting to a changed mission. But the president has only a few months remaining before a slew of highly organized far-left Democrats taking seats in Congress start trying to cut off funding for his Iran operation.

It’s Hobson’s choice. Either strike a deal with the IRGC not worth the paper on which it’s written for a face-saving exit ramp from the perceived quagmire or launch a devastating new round of air strikes to neutralize the IRGC’s nuclear program, which could require a tactical nuke on Pick Axe Mountain. If Trump has been consistent on one thing, it’s his determination never to allow a nuclear weapon to enter Iran’s terrorist mothership. Stopping short of that would be surrendering at a most dangerous moment in which the IRGC’s international terrorism has reached “an amplitude never before seen,” according to the French officials.

Source: The West Is Now Happy to Live With Terrorism | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
John 1:33

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