In my recent essay on the speech President Trump ought to deliver to unite Americans around America’s moral and military defense against Iran, I made reference to Leonard Peikoff‘s excellent 2001 call to “end states that sponsor terrorism.” Noting that Iran was the first nation to nationalize oil discovered and developed by the West, Dr. Peikoff traced America’s appeasement to Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. The American president who wrongly inserted “under God“ into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1957, Eisenhower, also commandeered the so-called D-Day invasion of Europe by the United States and allied forces.
This, too, made self-sacrifice the highest morality in American government, particularly in American foreign policy. American soldiers were slaughtered on D-Day. America’s allies were slaughtered at Communist Cuba’s Bay of Pigs—left behind by President Kennedy—and American Marines were slaughtered in President Carter’s April 24, 1980 helicopter debacle in Iran. American Marines were slaughtered by Iran’s terrorists again in 1983 in Lebanon and Americans were sacrificed by the U.S. yet again in 1993 with the assault on the U.S. in Somalia by those trained by Islamic terrorists.
Mass death first came to America’s shores on that black Tuesday in 2001. This is when Iran’s and Saudi Arabia’s religious terrorists slaughtered nearly 3,000 Americans in passenger jets, skyscrapers and the Pentagon, where they were left to be immolated. Then, America’s government plunged Americans into darkness by appeasing the enemy, praising Islam and helping others while bastardizing the U.S. into military-welfare-surveillance statism.
Throughout history, American soldiers and civilians alike have been left behind, sacrificed and left to die—left to jump to death as they were burned alive—due to America’s incompetence, ignorance and appeasement against evil forces of dictatorship, whether Islamic, National Socialist or Communist.
Until now. The president who’s almost 80 years old and the U.S. secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, achieved a major victory in rescuing the American colonel whose fighter jet was shot down in the mountains of Iran. The airman was reportedly badly wounded and American aircraft failed during rescue, which was reportedly also aided by the CIA and Israel. This historic rescue mission is a vital sign that America’s defense against the 47-year war by Iran on America can succeed and that, in the words of Objectivist intellectual John David Lewis, “nothing less than victory” is possible.
This weekend’s rescue shows that:
- Trump’s historic presidency regards America’s defense as paramount
- Trump places the highest value on the world’s smallest minority, the individual
- America’s ally, Israel, proved again to be superior to European allies
- The U.S. military needs reliable, excellent maintenance to achieve superiority
- Contrary to modern U.S. war policy, the President’s statement unequivocally celebrates American life as the ultimate standard of value
Springtime evokes the sense of renewal and hope of the good to be left alone to be good. Strictly in a secular sense, contra faith and religion, this Easter Sunday is a day to rejoice in man’s rationality; particularly in the most vital function of government to protect and defend the world’s lone republic based on individual rights.
Unlike most American presidents, Donald John Trump singles out the individual as an individual time and again. With today’s announcement of the rescue of the American colonel, President Trump—who persistently, consistently strives to name the individual—demonstrates that he takes responsibility for defending the American who chooses to put his life at risk to defend the U.S.
He is risen, goes a popular religionist saying on Easter Sunday. For once, this statement is true—whatever one’s political philosophy, whether you worship or hold contempt for religion, statism and Donald Trump—thanks to President Trump. For once, the sentence denoting man’s rise aligns with reality.
Trump initiated his presidential run 10 years ago with a pledge to make America great again. Note the tone, content and meaning of his Easter Sunday statement on this joyful day in America’s war to defend against state sponsors of mass murder in faith:
“This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but [the American colonel shot down] was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fellow Warfighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day, and diligently planning for his rescue…Open the F–in’ Strait [of Hormuz], you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”
—Donald Trump
