In 2003, I wrote,
America’s problem with Islamic fundamentalists began when Americans, failing to defend their rational self-interest, put the fruits of rationality in the hands of the irrational by letting Islamic savages nationalize Western oil properties in the Middle East. For centuries, Middle East Muslims had been killing each other, but were not a threat to anyone outside their region until the West enriched, emboldened, and empowered them by letting them rob this wealth and spend it on wider-range killing. America could have ended the problem any time before its fall if it simply had the moral self-confidence to use its military might, including its nuclear arsenal, to crush the evil governments, seize the oil properties that the savages were using to finance their military and terrorist operations, and make the territories of the Islamic Middle East into American colonies, thereby enabling American adventurers to exploit and civilize this new frontier just as American adventurers had exploited and civilized the American West in the 1800s.
Colonizing all of the Middle East except for Israel, though a worthy enterprise, is not even necessary. What is necessary is that we must not allow evil to rob the good, because robbing the good is evil’s source of power to kill the good.
For our own, American self-interest, we must destroy the Iranian regime and either reclaim or destroy the oil wealth that Iran robbed from the West.
For the latest on atrocities committed by the Iranian regime against untold thousands of the most virtuous Iranians, see here and here. The regime seeks to do the same to every one of us.
I voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024. Nothing he does can atone for his inaction here, for his failure to destroy the Iranian regime.
No other news story matters now.
(See also my previous post, “War Without Killing, Killing Without War.”)
2 thoughts on “Save America, Save Civilization, Destroy the Iranian Regime”
The trouble is Americans found oil on THEIR land, so the oil was their property. Also trouble was that once we found it, we had the tech to withdraw it from the land–they didn’t–and should have struck deals then. American businessmen were to blame for not monetarizing their expertise when they held the cards.
I don’t think so, Alexandra. First, what is the referent of “THEIR”? From historical accounts I could find, the referent of “THEIR” is the Iranian government. But the land in a country does not rightfully belong to government.
The D’Arcy Concession of 1901 gave 16% of net profits, in addition to an upfront payment, to the Iranian government. Following the 1951 nationalization and 1954 reversal, the Iranian government forced a 50-50 split in profits, up from the 16%. Of course, in 1979, the Iranian government’s 50% became 100%.
In short, the Iranian government robbed 16% at first, then 50%, then 100%.
The least Leftist-seeming reference I could find was from Grokipedia:
https://grokipedia.com/page/Petroleum_industry_in_Iran
Granted, the issue of robbery is moot in the case of Iran. Whatever the past, the Iranian regime has no right to any wealth.
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